Lolland used to be the poorest part of Denmark. A major shipyard that had employed most of the citizens closed. Unemployment sat at around 25 percent. Nearly half the population used government aid.
Today, it’s turned around. What made the difference? Renewable energy, said UC Merced students who...
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December 2, 2008
Lolland used to be the poorest part of Denmark. A major shipyard that had employed most of the citizens closed. Unemployment sat at around 25 percent. Nearly half the population used government aid.
Today, it’s turned around. What made the difference? Renewable energy, said UC Merced students who...
December 2, 2008
The Science and Engineering Building at the University of California, Merced, received an honorable mention in the first Go Beyond Awards. The awards program, sponsored by the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories and R & D Magazine, honors individuals, organizations, projects...
December 1, 2008
College life hasn’t exactly turned out as expected for UC MercedseniorAdam J. Kook. Having grown up in the area, thepolitical sciencemajor expected a larger-than-life social scene when hetransferredhere from Merced College.
“This campus is 54 percent male,” he remarked, referring to the gender...
November 26, 2008
Merced, CA - The University of California, Merced, in
conjunction with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will host a
joint Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement
public hearing on December 2, 2008, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the
California Room, 5200 North Lake Road in Merced....
November 25, 2008
The Students First Center and Office of Admissions have helpful
points for people considering attending the newest UC campus.
The first step, of course, is to apply. That can be done online
by visiting theAdmissions Web
siteand following the appropriate links. The UC system makes
the process...
November 24, 2008
UC Merced is going global. Actually, our campus has been global almost since day one, with an impressive array of faculty, staff and students hailing from all over the map - and an equally impressive list of academic collaborations with foreign universities.
But the creation of the Office of...
November 24, 2008
UC Merced is going global. Actually, our campus has been global almost since day one, with an impressive array of faculty, staff and students hailing from all over the map – and an equally impressive list of academic collaborations with foreign universities.
But the creation of the Office of...
November 24, 2008
When Kacy Marume first sat in a class on the Great Depression taught byliteratureprofessorJan GoggansandhistoryprofessorSean Malloy, she never dreamed she’d end up immersed in a relatedresearchproject.
But now the UC Mercedsenior, who is majoring in literature and American studies, spends much of...
November 19, 2008
When Jolie McLane’s parents moved to the Central Valley her senior year of high school, she stayed behind in Southern California and endured their teasing about attending UC Merced so they could have her close by again. She had other plans for her engineering education.
Then she attended Bobcat...
