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Memristor Technology Pioneers to Gather at Symposium

October 23, 2008
Memristors and memristive systems represent an exciting frontier in electrical and computer engineering and may hold important potential for applications like nanoscale computing and artificial neural networks. The pioneers of memristor technology will speak at a symposium on Friday, November 21,...

UC Merced Launches Performance Series With Gala Fundraiser

October 17, 2008
MERCED -“Arts UC Merced Presents …,”the university’s first performance arts series, launches next week with its inaugural event, “Embrace the Arts.” “Embrace the Arts,” is a fundraising gala that will help to ensure the performance series has staying power, said Gail Benedict, who along with fine...

UC Merced's Interdisciplinary Nature Pays Off for Alumna

October 17, 2008
UC Merced prides itself in allowing students opportunities to explore all fields of interest. It’s not uncommon here to findhumanitiesmajorsworking in scientific laboratories. That borderless culture leads many students to explore educational and professional areas in ways that would not be...

UC Merced Awards Spendlove Prize to Childhelp Founders

October 17, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize Nominees Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson have dedicated their lives to helping children in need MERCED - TheUniversity of California, Merced, has awarded this year’s Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance toChildhelpfounders Sara O’Meara...

UC Merced Unveils New Athletics Logo

October 14, 2008
MERCED - The University of California, Merced, is sporting a new look. Well, at least its athletics teams are. Campus officials today (Oct. 14) unveiled a brand-new athletics logo that marks a definite move toward competition-minded branding. Photos of the unveiling can be found on the campus...

Something for Everyone This Weekend at UC Merced

October 13, 2008
UC Merced is opening its doors and arms for two major events this weekend (Oct. 18-19). The first,Preview Day,will give prospective students a chance to see the inner-workings of the university before applications are accepted next month. The second,Family Weekend,offers friends and relatives of...

Something for Everyone This Weekend at UC Merced

October 13, 2008
UC Merced is opening its doors and arms for two major events this weekend (Oct. 18-19). The first, Preview Day, will give prospective students a chance to see the inner-workings of the university before applications are accepted next month. The second, Family Weekend, offers friends and relatives...

Public Forum on the Economy Monday Night

October 13, 2008
UC Mercedeconomist Katie Winderwill lead a public forum on the causes behind the current financial crisis. Winder, with colleagues Shawn Kantorand Todd Neumann, will deliver an hour-long multimedia presentation of the credit crisis and how it occurred. Kantor and Neumann have both done research on...

Prized Connections: Visiting Professor Cited in Physics Nobel Background

October 10, 2008
Only two years after Moo-Young “Mike” Han completed his doctorate at the University of Rochester, he received a surprising phone call. Yoichiro Nambu, an established physicist, had read a draft paper of Han’s and - in a perfect example of scientific cooperation rather than competition - suggested...

Sensors Could Provide Warning of Future Large-scale Environmental Problems

October 10, 2008
Imagine how our approach to a large-scale environmental problem like global climate change might be different today if anetwork of sensorshad been in place for the last 50 years, providing coordinating data sets that clearly showed what was happening to the climate as we went along. That’s the...

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