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Undergraduate Applications to UC Merced Surge 14 Percent

January 18, 2013
Editor’s Note: As of mid-February, UC Merced’s graduate student applications increased by 6.6 percent over last year. This press release reports a 41 percent increase, which at the time (Jan. 18) was an accurate figure. The current figure is lower. In the face of declining high school attendance in...

Parents' Financial Help Linked to Lower GPAs, Higher Graduation Rates

January 15, 2013
College students who aren’t studying hard may have their parents’ financial support to blame. A new study by University of California, Merced, sociology Professor Laura T. Hamilton found that students’ GPAs decreased with increased financial support from their parents. The study also found that...

Professor Awarded National Grant for Research on Moroccan Literature

January 15, 2013
University of California, Merced, literature Professor Cristián H. Ricci has received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities award to write an in-depth analysis of Moroccan literature. The research project, “Moroccan Literature and the Broadening of Postcolonial Literary Studies,” is...

Historian Uses 'Big Data' to Study World History

January 14, 2013
The path from ancient China to information science might seem like a long one, but Ruth Mostern is walking it. Mostern, a history professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, is joining a team that will use more than $601,000 in National Science Foundation grants to start...

Researchers Publish in Leading Science, Technology Journal

January 7, 2013
The small-scale, cutting-edge work of graduate student Eric Josephs and chemistry Professor Tao Ye is providing an up-close look at the behavior of biomolecules. The two UC Merced researchers hope to help engineer new and better biosensors for medical uses. Now, a paper documenting some of their...

Video | UC Merced 2014 - A Year of Growth

December 23, 2012

UC Merced Caps Successful Year with an Eye on the Future

December 18, 2012
MERCED, Calif. — Though UC Merced looked back this year to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the campus’s groundbreaking, signs of what the future will hold continue to come into focus. Those signs include cutting-edge research moving forward in the San Joaquin Valley – the state’s fastest growing...

Video | Discover UC Merced: Emily C. Wilson’s Creativity Meets Research

December 18, 2012
Ph.D. candidate Emily Wilson discovered her passion for research in the natural sciences as an undergraduate student, fueled by a collaboration with the engineering dean and her powerful creative spirit. Collaborating with a dean – especially an interdisciplinary collaboration, is uncommon on other...

New Provost Shares Vision for Campus

December 17, 2012
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Tom Peterson assumed his leadership role at UC Merced on Dec. 3 and has been meeting with various campus groups to learn more about the university. Before coming to campus, Peterson led the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF), a...

Professor Looks Inside Trees for Answers

December 12, 2012
Professor Carolin Frank is concerned with the inner lives of trees. She looks inside them to see whether microbes are part of – and perhaps even critical to – life functions such as growth. “It’s a pretty new field,” Frank said. “Most people think of bacteria as causing disease, but they can be...

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