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Campus Abuzz with Activity as Students Move In

August 21, 2009
The UC Merced campus is a thriving college community this weekend. About 1,200 students will move in to their campus homes for the academic year. Friday was the university’s official move-in day, but students will be filing in throughout the weekend. According to Leslie Santos, director of housing...

Grad Student Mixes Disciplines to Understand Proteins

August 14, 2009
Joshua Phillips considers himself acomputer scientist, but he’s quickly becoming an expert inmolecular dynamics. With any luck, hiscomputationaltechniques combined with a little intuition will lead to a better understanding of “intrinsically disordered” proteins - proteins that function without...

Valley Students Benefit from UC Merced Center

August 13, 2009
UC Merced was established in the San Joaquin Valley partly to address chronically low levels of educational attainment in the region and throughout California’s greater Central Valley. According to UC Office of the President data, applications to University of California campuses from Central...

Valley Students Benefit from UC Merced Center

August 13, 2009
UC Merced was established in the San Joaquin Valley partly to address chronically low levels of educational attainment in the region and throughout California’s greater Central Valley. According to UC Office of the President data, applications to University of California campuses from Central...

UC Merced to Lead Multicampus Research Program on Solar Energy

August 13, 2009
As the world’s hunger for energy grows and fossil fuel supplies become less certain, the need to develop alternative renewable energy sources is paramount. The most abundant source of renewable energy is the sun. However, current technology used to convert sunlight into electricity is still...

Students Seek Renewable Energy Solutions

August 7, 2009
At first glance, the group that toured UC Merced earlier this week looked like typical students visiting campus for the first time. But they weren’t here to enjoy the scenery. There were looking at ways to get more power to the people – renewable power. Twenty-six students from seven universities...

Students Seek Renewable Energy Solutions

August 7, 2009
At first glance, the group that toured UC Merced earlier this week looked like typical students visiting campus for the first time. But they weren’t here to enjoy the scenery. There were looking at ways to get more power to the people – renewable power. Twenty-six students from seven universities...

Internship Program Combines Service and Learning

July 31, 2009
Students in UC Merced’sYosemite Leadership Program(YLP) are experiencing a summer internship like no other. They’ve led national park visitors on tours of giant sequoia trees, gone on search and rescue missions to assist distressed hikers and helped manage invasive weeds that pose a threat to...

Soil Scientist's Work Keeps Her Grounded

July 31, 2009
WhenAsmeret Asefaw Berhestarted college, her initial goal was to become a medical doctor. But over time, she diverted her attention toresearch, focusing on the applied aspects of natural science. She left medicine behind and chose another career that is a bit more “grounded.” She is a soil ...

Internship Program Combines Service and Learning

July 31, 2009
Students in UC Merced’s Yosemite Leadership Program (YLP) are experiencing a summer internship like no other. They’ve led national park visitors on tours of giant sequoia trees, gone on search and rescue missions to assist distressed hikers and helped manage invasive weeds that pose a threat to...

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