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Excelling Student Gets Help from Gates Foundation

August 31, 2007
Not everyone can say Bill Gates came looking for them, but Salysia Perez can. As a senior in high school, she was recruited by the Gates Millennium Scholars program to apply for the group’s college scholarship. Now, three years later, she’s still receiving money each year to cover everything her...

UC Merced Meets World

August 31, 2007
If you notice a different vibe on campus this fall, it might just be the increased presence of global influences. You could even say this is the year UC Merced becomes an international campus. About 40 international students are on campus this semester under F-1 visa status.  These students hail...

14 New Professors Join UC Merced for Fall Semester

August 27, 2007
MERCED - When classes begin today (Aug. 27) at the University of California, Merced, students will notice some important new faces on campus. Fourteen new professors have joined the faculty lineup for the fall semester, bringing the total number to 91. “This round of faculty hiring adds...

Social Sciences and Management Building Groundbreaking Planned

August 24, 2007
At the beginning of its third year serving undergraduate students on campus, UC Merced is preparing for still more construction to start. Design approval came over the summer from the UC Regents for the next academic building, a three-story, $47.5 million expansion of the School of Social Sciences...

"Bones" Professor Finds Clues to Lives, Deaths in Skeletal Remains

August 24, 2007
Vicki Wedel might have been an amazing doctor, except for one minor problem.”The only patients I wanted to be around were the dead ones,” she said. That’s why she spends her time examining bones:  prehistoric bones, bones from Colonial America, and even more recent - but unidentified - skeletons...

Learn About Farmworker Life in "Living Under the Trees" Exhibit Beginning Sept. 4

August 22, 2007
The School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at UC Merced Presents “Living Under the Trees,” a photo documentary exhibition and associated events. David Bacon has documented the lives of Mexican indigenous farmworkers in California, and his photo documentary, “Living Under the Trees,” will...

UC Merced Research Awards Top $12 Million This Year

August 21, 2007
MERCED - Research grants and awards for the University of California, Merced’s 80 professors sharply increased this past fiscal year, with more than $12 million coming from a variety of sources for some of the state’s most cutting-edge research. A total of 76 awards, amounting to $12,208,232, came...

Staff Member Looks to the Global Future

August 17, 2007
Fatima Paul, the committee analyst at UC Merced, makes her home in the Central Valley, but she lives in a global world. Born in the French Alps, Paul finished her education at Montpelier with a master’s degree in English literature. She worked for the National Institutes for Health/National Cancer...

Writing Workshops Help Teachers Learn Best Practices

August 17, 2007
Merced - Kindergarten through community college teachers are invited to the UC Merced Writing Project’s 2007-2008 Saturday Outreach Series to learn more about best practices for teaching to the California State Writing Standards. More than 100 teachers county-wide have already taken part in...

Bridge Crossing, Convocation - A Campus Tradition Continues

August 17, 2007
Plans are being finalized now for this year’s opening ceremonies, the Scholars Bridge Crossing & Convocation. Incoming students should meet at the dining commons at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 30. Once everyone is gathered, a procession will march up Scholars Lane, across the bridge, and into...

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