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Graduate Student Bringing UC Merced to Western Pacific

February 13, 2013
Graduate student Sharon Patris likes spending time at a lake in the middle of the forest on an uninhabited island in the western Pacific. The marine lake named Ongiem’l Tketau and informally known as Jellyfish Lake, is home to the golden jellyfish, a species Patris studies as part of her work with...

UC Merced Women's Volleyball: Where Greatness Begins

February 12, 2013

Professor’s Paper, Among Year’s Best, Shows Dramatic Effects of Mountaintop Mining on Climate

February 11, 2013
UC Merced School of Engineering Professor Elliott Campbell has co-authored a paper showing that mountaintop removal mining will dramatically accelerate the regional effects of global warming by turning natural carbon sinks into sources of carbon emissions, some within the next 15 years. On top of...

Professor’s Design Could Win $50,000 Grant

February 6, 2013
A UC Merced professor is one of five finalists in an international challenge that could win him a $50,000 research grant and free access to a record-setting, ocean-going robot. Professor Michael Beman, with the School of Natural Sciences, entered the PacX Challenge, a competition designed to...

UC Merced’s Sustainability Practices Include the Whole Campus Community

February 4, 2013
  Sometimes, what goes on behind the scenes is as important as what happens in full view – especially when it comes to UC Merced’s pledge to uphold and develop new sustainable practices. All across the campus, sustainability is on the minds of hundreds of staff members who, every day, push the...

UC Merced Honors PG&E with Inaugural Vanguard Award

January 31, 2013
MERCED, Calif. — UC Merced honored the Pacific Gas and Electric Company with the School of Engineering’s inaugural Vanguard Award today with a special ceremony to thank the company for all it has done for engineering students. “PG&E is honored to receive the inaugural Vanguard Award from UC...

Campus Hosts Play that Tells Stories of Physical, Sexual Abuse

January 30, 2013
A powerful one-woman play that explores the troubling world of physical and sexual abuse debuts Feb. 23 as part of Arts UC Merced Presents. “Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men,” written and performed by actress/poet/playwright Dael Orlandersmith, tells the often difficult and uncomfortable stories of six...

New Energy Manager’s Big Plans Require Small Steps

January 28, 2013
  As UC Merced’s new energy manager, it’s Varick Erickson’s job to watch every kilowatt hour used on campus and identify ways to save them. “It’s a lot like rummaging around in the couch and looking for change,” Erickson said. Except the spare kilowatt hours he finds could save the campus hundreds...

UC Merced Professor’s Lighting Device Earning Campus Its Fourth U.S. Patent

January 25, 2013
Professor Roland Winston knows a jellyfish that can help people see more clearly. But it’s not the kind found in the ocean. It’s one that’s about to earn Winston and UC Merced a U.S. patent, and is the solution to a problem that vexed many famous scientists. “Perfect imaging has been a desired goal...

Russian Student Gives U.S. a Second Chance, Finds Niche at UC Merced

January 22, 2013
Vadim Gassiy was in eighth grade when his mother encouraged him to leave Russia for a taste of American life, culture and education. But the small town of Niceville, Fla. proved too sharp a contrast to Gassiy’s big city lifestyle in Saint Petersburg. After one semester in 2004, Gassiy headed home...

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