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Senior Balances Athletics, Academics With Agility

May 14, 2014
Growing up in Bangkok, Surabordin Prachumsri knew what he wanted to do at an early age. Now in his final year at UC Merced, that hasn’t changed for the 22-year-old. “My mom is an anthropologist, and I always liked science as a kid,” said Prachumsri, who goes by “Ai.” “It’s one of the things I’m...

Spring Issue of UC Merced Magazine Available Now

May 12, 2014
University Communications announces the online release of the Spring issue of UC Merced Magazine. In an effort to keep campus supporters in the Central Valley aware of UC Merced’s research, faculty, students and development, University Communications launched UC Merced Magazine. The print version...

Student Commencement Speakers Blaze Paths as Campus Leaders

May 12, 2014
Students Jamie Sweet and Vanessa Estavillo have much more in common than a love of UC Merced, a legacy of leadership and being members of the Class of 2014. These two women have been chosen to speak at their respective schools’ commencement ceremonies. Sweet, an environmental engineering major from...

Innovate to Grow Competition Highlights Student Creativity

May 12, 2014
MERCED, Calif. — From disposable drones mapping wildfire perimeters to increasing the number of young students interested in science, technology, engineering and math studies, this year’s engineering capstone and Innovate to Grow teams have real, impactful work to show off. The annual Innovate to...

NSF Early Career Award Honors Professor’s Research and Potential

May 9, 2014
The National Science Foundation is honoring UC Merced Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe with a Faculty Early Career Development Award to support her examination of how soil helps regulate the climate. The awards are given to junior faculty members who “who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars...

Scholarship Empowers Students to Make a Difference

May 7, 2014
Five words from one of American history’s most famous speeches inspired Dalton Rogers to contribute to society. He was called to public service in high school when he read President John F. Kennedy’s call to action — “ask what you can do.” Rogers also believes that challenge has led to him to seize...

Student’s Lengthy Academic Journey Concludes at Commencement

May 5, 2014
For Helen Dahman, college was always more marathon than sprint. Now 73, Dahman was just out of high school when she took her first college classes. But she wasn’t ready then and instead entered the workforce, married, raised a family and volunteered at her sons’ schools. Yet the idea of a...

Students Work to Spark Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

April 30, 2014
The entrepreneurial mindset is as much an inherent part of the atmosphere at UC Merced as it is at any start-up. But now two students, Eduardo Rojas-Flores and Nick Fong, are on a mission to help bring even greater levels of innovation and venture activity to the campus. Selected as University...

Capstone Team’s Designs Could Win DARPA Competition

April 28, 2014
Improvements for a ubiquitous device that cools high-powered electronics aboard military aircraft could do more than just earn a group of engineering students their senior capstone design credits. It could also win a competition funded and hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (...

Professor’s Passion for Monkey Flower Leads to Genetic Discoveries

April 23, 2014
The environment affects the way genetic populations move, and similar environments likely play a bigger role in how a species develops than does geographic distance. Those are just two of the discoveries Professor Jason Sexton has made while studying the monkey flower, a California native that is...

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