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Center Promotes Student Self-sufficiency

November 21, 2012
Students who visit the UC Merced Students First Center (SFC) in the lobby of the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library will see it’s different from other student services offices. For one thing, the computers can turn around to face students, letting them learn to accomplish unfamiliar tasks by doing...

Graduate Student Uses Llamas to Continue Research in Yosemite

November 19, 2012
Graduate student Kaitlin Lubetkin and several sure-footed assistants spent much of the summer in Yosemite National Park. Her frequent hiking companions were Toronado and Bravo — llamas who shouldered up to 100 pounds of equipment. The pack animals were critical to her continued research on conifer...

Campus Bunnies Still at Home Here

November 14, 2012
They sleep in secret, fuzzy beds and have questionable dietary habits. They prefer to be active in the evenings and early mornings. They are easily startled and can, if the situation calls for it, do some damage with their legs. They are not ninjas, nor are they the freshmen who live in the dorms....

New Grant to Help Prepare Grad Students for Faculty Careers

November 13, 2012
UC Merced is one of only seven universities nationwide to receive a grant from the Council of Graduate Schools to develop new approaches for enhancing graduate student skills for assessing undergraduate learning, and to help prepare students for future careers as university faculty members. In...

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...

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...

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