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Sustainability Research Opportunities Abound for 2010 Grad

April 15, 2011
Andrea Mercado has a knack for finding opportunity. She left her hometown of Lake Arrowhead in Southern California for college in Seattle, but a year later, her horizons opened up in a different direction. “I transferred to UC Merced my sophomore year because of the research opportunities, the...

Research Week to Celebrate Work of Faculty, Students

April 12, 2011
Research Week, the annual celebration of faculty and student research at the University of California, Merced, returns this month with a student research poster competition and a number of lectures and symposia. Research Week's traditional mainstay events — the Student Research Poster...

Earth Week Celebration Grows in Second Year

April 8, 2011
Now in its second year, UC Merced’s student-run Earth Week celebration is growing and evolving. Organized by junior Diana Franklin — the Associated Students of UC Merced’s Commissioner of Sustainability — the five-day fete will begin with a kickoff event on April 18 and culminate on Earth Day,...

Marine Biologist Awarded Prestigious GuggenheimFellowship

April 7, 2011
Mónica Medina, a biology professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California, Merced, has been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced today. Medina is among a diverse group of 180 scholars, artists and...

Volleyball Team Ready for Next Step

April 3, 2011
If there was any question whether UC Merced was ready to take its sports teams to a higher competitive level, the women's volleyball club team has proved it this year. When senior Kayla Taylor first joined the team as a freshman, in the club's second year, the Bobcats struggled to win even a...

Former State Supreme Court Justice to Receive SpendlovePrize

March 31, 2011
Cruz Reynoso, who has spent his life fighting for immigrants' rights, will be the 2011 recipient of UC Merced's Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance Quick Facts Cruz Reynoso, a former California Supreme Court Justice and civil rights lawyer, will be the...

Diverse Physics Faculty Above National Average, Earn Prestigious Awards

March 25, 2011
UC Merced's physicsgroup is defying the odds. Women make up 14 percent of physics faculty at U.S. degree-granting institutions, according to a 2010 survey by the American Institute of Physics. At UC Merced, three of the eight professors are women, or more than a third. Also, one of the two...

Undergraduates Assist Merced High School Students with Key Exam

March 18, 2011
Six UC Merced students are showing their passion for serving the community by tutoring a group of Merced High School students who are in danger of failing a key exit exam. The group was organized by world history major Dulcemaria Anaya, of Merced, and environmental engineering major Jesse Anaya,...

Statement from UC Merced Chancellor Steve Kang

March 11, 2011
I am deeply shocked and saddened by the news of the tragic 8.9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck Japan today. This major catastrophe has caused heavy damage, apparently mostly in the northeastern portion of the country. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected,...

UC Merced Options Set Engineering Alumnus on the Right Path

March 11, 2011
Unlike many other schools, UC Merced allows freshman students to enter with a major of “engineering - undeclared.” For Matt Nelson, now looking back on his freshman year more than five years down the line, the option proved a distinct advantage. “I honestly had no idea what I would be doing now...

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