MERCED, CA— Students and professors at the
University of California, Merced, have organized a teach-in on
global climate change that will take place Thursday, Jan. 31 on the
newest UC campus. Based on a model fromFocus the Nation, the
teach-in is aimed at creating awareness on campus and in the...
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January 23, 2008
University raises $6.7M in first half of fiscal year
MERCED, CA— Fundraising at the University of
California, Merced, is up by 82 percent in the first six months of
the 2007-08 fiscal year, according to university officials.
From July 1 through Dec. 31, 2007, UC Merced and the UC Merced...
January 22, 2008
When you think of a young woman who’s spent most of her life in the San Joaquin Valley, you might not picture a Ph.D.bioengineer.
Fresno native Alicia Blancas is bound to change that.
Blancas chose to study biology because she was inspired by an Advanced Placement teacher at Edison High School. A...
January 22, 2008
When it comes to studying how corals respond to increasing ocean temperatures as the climate warms, the corals are just part the puzzle.
“If we don’t look at the algae that live in symbiosis with the corals, we’re really only seeing half of the picture, maybe less,” said Ph.D. student Mickey...
January 22, 2008
When it comes to studying how corals respond to increasing ocean temperatures as theclimate warms,the corals are just part the puzzle.
If we don’t look at the algae that live in symbiosis with the corals, we’re really only seeing half of the picture, maybe less, saidPh.D. student Mickey DeSalvo....
January 22, 2008
MERCED, CA— In keeping with its commitment
to education, Merced School Employees Federal Credit Union has
donated $25,000 to start an endowed scholarship fund to benefit
students at the University of California, Merced.
“We know that even if students do well in high school, financial
reasons may...
January 21, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CA— Sierra magazine has placed
the University of California’s 10 campuses “in a league of their
own” in the Sierra Club publication’s second annual
green college guide, which hit newsstands today (Aug. 21).
The ranking, along with others by Kaplan and Hearst’s
TheDailyGreen.com,...
January 18, 2008
MERCED, CA— Faculty researchers at the
University of California, Merced have been awarded nearly $8.4
million in research grants and awards during the first half of the
2007-08 fiscal year, the largest six-month total since the
university began research operations in 2003.
The $8.4 million...
January 16, 2008
MERCED, CA— Amid international concern about
the public health threat of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aurea
bacteria, researchers at the University of California, Merced, have
filed for a patent on a powerful new screening tool that could
someday answer widespread calls for universal staph...
January 14, 2008
Kolligian Library is second campus facility to meet USGBC
“Gold” standard for sustainable development
MERCED, CA— A second major building complex
at the University of California, Merced has earned “LEED Gold”
certification for excellence in environmental performance from the
U.S. Green Building...
