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Inaugural Managers to Lead New Vernal Pool Reserve

November 8, 2012
MERCED, Calif. — The effort to create a natural reserve out of nearly 6,000 acres adjacent to UC Merced has been jump-started by the hiring of two people to share the management duties.  Sierra Nevada Research Institute Director Roger Bales, who is making the appointments, said Steve Shackelton,...

Program Gives Students a Window on the Nano World

November 7, 2012
More than two dozen UC Merced undergraduates spent the summer exploring a tiny but hot topic — materials 100,000 times slimmer than a human hair that are poised to revolutionize sensing, data collection and other technologies. The 10-week program is part of the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical...

Building the Future

November 6, 2012

Campaign 2012 Academic Seminar Gives Students Perspective

November 5, 2012
When UC Merced first announced it would be sending students to the national political conventions through The Washington Center program, senior Chelsea Coe never expected she’d be one of the lucky two. Coe, a transfer student from Santa Monica, is a cognitive science major working with Professor...

Graduate Student Finds Unexpected Home in Merced

November 5, 2012
Zhijiang “Justin” Ye wasn’t expecting to attend the newest campus in the UC system. He just wanted to work with Professor Ashlie Martini. When Ye, then a student at University of Minnesota, connected with Martini and asked to join her research group, he found out she wasn’t staying at Purdue...

New Endowment Supports Transfer Students

November 1, 2012
Students transferring to the University of California, Merced, from California community colleges can apply for financial support thanks to a new endowed scholarship fund from The Bernard Osher Foundation. The $500,000 gift to UC Merced provides scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 per...

California is Home to Extreme Weather, Too

November 1, 2012
MERCED, Calif. — California isn’t going to face a superstorm like Hurricane Sandy because the Pacific Ocean is too cold to feed that kind of weather system. But that doesn’t mean California won’t see extreme weather, say researchers from the University of California, Merced. “We can see very big...

Chemistry Professor Making the Most of his Waste

October 31, 2012
Chemistry Professor Jason Hein and his students make a lot of compounds in the lab. They also make a lot of chemical waste. But Hein found a way to clean up the waste and reuse it, saving money and helping the environment at the same time. “I’m very excited about this project,” said Dean Juan Meza...

Big Change a Chance for Big Opportunities for Grad Student

October 29, 2012
Chicagoan Chelsea Carey faced quite a change in choosing UC Merced for her natural sciences graduate studies. But she knew she wanted to work with Professor Stephen Hart for her environmental systems research. “I did a lot of searching (for a mentor) based on my research interests,” Carey said. She...

Professor: In Politics, It’s Not Just What You Say, It’s How You Say It

October 23, 2012
In an election year, as people are being machine-gunned with millions of dollars’ worth of political messages from all sorts of sources, it might be re-assuring (or distressing) to discover that even the more subtle aspects of language use can actually make a make a powerful and priceless...

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