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Enrollment Continues to Climb at UC Merced

September 27, 2012
The University of California, Merced, began its eighth academic year with 5,760 undergraduate and graduate students, up nearly 11 percent to a new high, according to data released today (Sept. 27). The increase proves that demand for UC Merced grows, despite a difficult economic environment. Space...

Cog Sci Professor Researches Communication's Development in Newborns

September 26, 2012
From burps to babbling, cognitive science Professor Anne S. Warlaumont studies how children develop their ability to verbally communicate in the first year of their lives. “I’ve always been interested in the origin of complex human behavior,” Warlaumont said, “and communication is one of the most...

UC Merced the Focus of Global Sustainable Design Contest

September 26, 2012
MERCED, Calif. — A global sustainable architecture competition is turning all eyes to the University of California, Merced, the newest campus in the UC system, and the only one to have all its buildings certified by the US Green Building Council as meeting LEED standards. Architecture at Zero 2012...

National Science Foundation Grant Supports Biodiversity Research

September 25, 2012
MERCED, Calif. — A $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation will support a five-year investigation by University of California, Merced, researchers into environmental changes in marine lakes, including why some species adapt while others go extinct. The grant also is helping spread...

Senegal Shrubbery Research Could Bear Fruit for Many

September 24, 2012
Shrubs blooming in a specific area of Africa might hold the answers to feeding millions of people on that continent, and possibly others. UC Merced Professor Teamrat Ghezzehei, his doctoral student, Nate Bogie, and researchers from Ohio State University, Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles...

Student, Faculty Music Projects Enlivening Area Scene

September 19, 2012
Professor Arnold Kim’s music couldn’t be more different than that of student-staff-alumni band Feeling Gravity’s Pull. Kim’s The Yellow Hope Project work is heavily influenced by what he has been listening to for years – old-school country, soul, blues and folk. It’s quiet and confessional, moody...

Common Read Builds Community, Connections with Shared Book

September 17, 2012
A richly illustrated book tracing centuries of change in the California landscape is this year’s Common Read, a program that connects students and faculty across disciplines by putting the same text in dozens of classrooms. First launched in Fall 2006, the Common Read helps introduce students to...

New Women’s Soccer Team Kicks Off With Home Opener in September

September 12, 2012
UC Merced’s first NAIA women’s soccer team is going to have a short season – five home games and nine away games. That’s by design. New head coach Megan Atoigue said this is the time to set the foundation for the campus’s inaugural women’s soccer program, and a chance for the team members to cement...

Yosemite Leadership Program Coordinator to Expand Its Profile

September 10, 2012
The UC Merced Yosemite Leadership Program’s first full-time leader plans to build on the program’s momentum and expand its visibility. Jacob Croasdale was recently selected to oversee the 3-year-old program. A $65,000 grant from Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas is funding the...

Snowy, Sandy Research Explores Climate Change

September 5, 2012
From the white, sugary sands of Hawaii to the white, powdery slopes of the Sierra Nevada, Natural Sciences Professor Stephen Hart has his eye on climate change. For the past two years, the professor, who’s affiliated with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, has worked with student researchers at...

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