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Graduate Student Finds New Career in Military Research

January 27, 2012
As a chemistry teacher at Golden Valley High School in 2004, Scott Seronello frequently told his students to keep working at their education and never give up their dreams. Then his students asked why he hadn’t done that himself. So he applied to UC Merced to pursue his dream of earning a Ph.D.,...

Campus' Math Course Launches UC Online Program

January 24, 2012
A calculus course at UC Merced marks the first class to be offered through the University of California's online instruction project, with several more courses to be rolled out in early April. The program's inaugural course, which began Jan. 17, is a preparatory calculus class taught by instructors...

Computer Scientist Earns Prestigious Early-Career Research Award

January 23, 2012
Engineering Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang of the University of California, Merced, has been named a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to further his work on improving visual tracking abilities in machines. The award will provide Yang, a...

Campus Receives National Award for Educational Programming

January 20, 2012
The University of California, Merced, has been awarded the 2012 Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Award for Outstanding Institutional Practice in Student Learning Outcomes. “The CHEA award affirms UC Merced’s mission as a student-centered research university by formally recognizing...

Researchers' Refinement Increases Solar Concentrator Efficiency

January 19, 2012
A team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has redesigned luminescent solar concentrators to be more efficient at sending sunlight to solar cells. The advancement could be an important breakthrough for solar energy harvesting, said UC Merced physics Professor Sayantani Ghosh,...

Dean Charts Vision for Natural Sciences

January 18, 2012
Dean of Natural Sciences Juan Meza began his tenure at UC Merced in September, and he wasted no time in meeting with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff to learn about the areas where the school is doing well and look for places to improve. Meza studied at Rice University, where...

Campus Sees Another Increase in Applications

January 12, 2012
The University of California, Merced, continues to see growing interest from prospective students, as witnessed by a 9.9 percent rise in applications over the 2011 academic year according to data released today by the UC Office of the President. UC Merced received 15,054 undergraduate applications...

Poli Sci Graduate Discipline to Debut in Fall

January 10, 2012
Graduate students interested in studying at UC Merced will have one more discipline to pursue this fall. The political science group will launch its doctoral degree track within the Social and Cognitive Sciences graduate emphasis in August. The deadline to apply as a graduate student at UC Merced...

UC Merced and Fresno Unified Leverage Resources to Increase Rate of Valley Grads Going to College

January 10, 2012
The Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) at the University of California, Merced, has teamed up with the Fresno Unified School District to support an important mission — helping more high school students graduate and get accepted to college.  Through a unique partnership, full-time...

Graduate Student at Home with Mountain Water Research

January 6, 2012
Peter Kirchner may have been born in California’s San Fernando Valley, but his heart and mind have always been close to the mountains. Much of his life has been spent living in Mono County, where he worked at a wilderness scout camp at age 15. In the mid-1990s, he was a training officer for the...

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