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Student Clubs Keep Busy With Summer Fun, Volunteer Work

June 8, 2007
The academic year may be well over, but there’s plenty going on at UC Merced, especially with student clubs and organizations. Many of these groups have exciting activities planned for the summer of 2007. Several groups are participating in orientation sessions throughout the summer to help...

Student Clubs Keep Busy With Summer Fun, Volunteer Work

June 8, 2007
The academic year may be well over, but there’s plenty going on at UC Merced, especially withstudent clubs and organizations. Many of these groups have exciting activities planned for the summer of 2007. Several groups are participating inorientationsessions throughout the summer to help acquaint...

Natural Sciences Advisor Believes in Students' Dreams

June 8, 2007
Angie Cendeja’s high school counselor suggested she forget her dream of going to college. Her family - a large, extended network of migrant workers crammed into a tiny two-bedroom home in Avenal and headed by Cendeja’s grandmother - needed her to stay, the counselor said. Fortunately, that...

Students' Summer Plans Include Work, Grad School Preparation

June 1, 2007
UC Merced students, recent graduates and soon-to-be Bobcats are spending the summer break in typical college fashion – traveling to sunny beaches, picking up part-time jobs and trying to further their education while helping others. “I wasn’t behind in my classes – in fact I’m ahead – so I decided...

Students' Summer Plans Include Work, Grad School Preparation

June 1, 2007
UC Merced students, recent graduates and soon-to-be Bobcats are spending the summer break in typical college fashion - traveling to sunny beaches, picking up part-time jobs and trying to further their education while helping others. I wasn’t behind in my classes - in fact I’m ahead - so I decided...

Sophomore Spends His Off-Hours Learning

June 1, 2007
From the open spaces of a university campus to the confined cells of a juvenile detention center, UC Merced sophomore Martin MacLeod said he is gaining a valuable education. MacLeod works as an office assistant at Youth Service Center in San Mateo County during his breaks from studying business...

Group Works to Make Transferring Easier

May 25, 2007
If you spent your first two years in higher education at community college, worried that you lost out and won’t do as well at a four-year school, meet Jeff Yoshimi. The UC Merced professor and advisor to theTransfer Student Associationenjoys helping out with student activities in TSA because he’s...

Group Works to Make Transferring Easier

May 25, 2007
If you spent your first two years in higher education at community college, worried that you lost out and won´t do as well at a four-year school, meet Jeff Yoshimi. The UC Merced professor and advisor to the Transfer Student Association enjoys helping out with student activities in TSA because...

Grad Student Seeks Answers, Ph.D. and a Little Bit of Down Time

May 25, 2007
Don’t call Gyami Shrestha a tree hugger. Sure, she loves hiking, is a vegetarian and avoids driving when she can. But Shrestha said she’s simply an environmental scientist trying to find truth and solutions to a global problem. “I guess I’m a little bit of an idealist,” she said. Shrestha is a Ph....

UC Merced Names Regional Director of Small Business Development Network

May 23, 2007
FRESNO - University of California, Merced, recently named Lyle Wright as director of its Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Regional Network. “Since 2003, the UC Merced SBDC Regional Network has helped establish 208 business start ups, created more than 1,700 jobs and helped secure nearly...

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