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Millennium Gift Helps Further Obesity Study at UC Merced

May 8, 2007
Experts say poor eating habits and inactivity, the main causes of obesity, could mean children face shorter life expectancies than their parents. The increasing problem of childhood obesity in the San Joaquin Valley has prompted a $5,000 gift from Millennium SportsClub to the University of...

Save Money, Save Time, Study Better by Living On Campus

May 4, 2007
Living on campus at UC Merced offers lots of advantages, but most of them can be summed up in a few key words – cost, convenience and concentration. On-campus living might seem expensive at first, but it´s often comparable, when you consider the costs of food, utilities, transportation and...

Save Money, Save Time, Study Better by Living On Campus

May 4, 2007
Living on campus at UC Merced offers lots of advantages, but most of them can be summed up in a few key words - cost, convenience and concentration. On-campus living might seem expensive at first, but it’s often comparable, when you consider the costs of food, utilities, transportation and parking...

Pitching the Future: Student Accepted to Prestigious Grad-Prep Program

May 4, 2007
Not every college sophomore would describe their feelings about an intensive, two-year research program with the word “stoked.” It helps a little bit that the UC Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) program will let UC Merced’s Mike Oliveira live in San Francisco for the...

Central Plant Receives Top Award for Distinguished Design from American Institute of Architects

May 4, 2007
Central Plant is key component of university’s commitmentto sustainable development and environmental leadership MERCED - The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the University of California, Merced’s first building complex, known as the Central Plant, to receive a 2007 Institute...

UC Merced Professor Gets a New View of Terrorism

May 2, 2007
MERCED - Professor Gregg Herkenwon a fellowship through the Foundation for Defense of Democracies that will take him to Israel for 10 days this summer. The FDD, which formed after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, annually invites several university professors to attend an intensive 10-day...

UC Merced Library Offers 1,100 New Scholarly Journals Online

May 1, 2007
MERCED - Students, faculty and other researchers at the University of California, Merced, now have electronic access to more than 1,100 journals published by Taylor & Francis, thanks to a new deal between the publisher and the California Digital Library (CDL), a network connecting libraries...

Writing Instructor Plays Many Roles

April 27, 2007
At UC Merced, you will find Michael Winder in the role of writing instructor, and on May 4, you can also catch him in the role of Serge in Playhouse Merced’s production of “Art.” Winder hadn’t acted since high school, but in February, he took part in a one-act show before signing on for the...

Greek Life on the Table at UC Merced

April 27, 2007
One of the benefits of a brand-new university is getting to start your own clubs and organizations – and learning from other universities’ experience to get it right. That’s part of the charge of the Greek Life Task Force, a group of students, faculty members and administrators tasked with...

Greek Life on the Table at UC Merced

April 27, 2007
One of the benefits of a brand-new university is getting to start your own clubs and organizations – and learning from other universities’ experience to get it right. That’s part of the charge of the Greek Life Task Force, a group of students, faculty members and administrators tasked with...

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