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Record Spike in Applications Nets Enrollment Increase

October 1, 2013
A fall census shows enrollment at the University of California, Merced, has reached 6,195 students — a 7 percent increase over last year — as the campus continues to grow in both numbers and competitiveness. After evaluating a record application pool of more than 18,000, the university enrolled 1,...

New Blum Center at UC Merced to Focus on Valley Prosperity

September 30, 2013
UC Merced has a unique opportunity to help the San Joaquin Valley as the university forges the newest branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. The $400,000, two-year seed grant through the University of California allows the university to launch its center, themed “Global California: The...

Cognitive Scientist Shows How the Brain Can Assemble New Ideas from Old Parts

September 26, 2013
People routinely encounter familiar components from everyday life in new combinations, such as when a co-worker takes on a new role or a sentence uses a word in a new way. We typically excel at interpreting these new experiences, but researchers do not yet understand the neurological basis of this...

UC Merced Professor’s Research Helping People Get Well

September 23, 2013
Chances are, sometime in your life, you’ll need an antibiotic. But did you know that bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance so quickly – and pharmaceutical companies are not inventing new antibiotics – that soon, there will not be any that are effective? It’s a good thing UC Merced Professor...

UC Merced Sees 26 Percent Increase in Private Funding

September 19, 2013
The University of California, Merced, recorded $5.04 million in private gift and grant support from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013 — an increase of 26 percent over the last fiscal year’s total of $3.98 million. The percentage increase in private funding was far higher than the national average and...

UC Goes Social to Raise Scholarship Funds

September 18, 2013
The University of California today (Sept. 18) began Promise for Education, a six-week crowd-funding campaign to engage students, faculty, alumni, celebrities, businesses, politicians and supporters in a novel drive to raise money for UC student scholarships. The Promise for Education model is...

Exhibit Brings Valley Threads Together

September 16, 2013
An exhibit coordinated by a UC Merced professor weaves together music, literature, photography, video and oral history to tell stories of the workers who keep the region’s economy moving. “Central Valley Threads: Picking Out Strands of Life and Art in the Central Valley” opens at the Merced...

Roderic Park, Former Acting Chancellor, Dies at 81

September 13, 2013
Roderic Park, former acting chancellor of UC Merced and a major campus planner and benefactor, passed away on Sept. 6. He was 81. A distinguished professor, researcher and administrator who spent most of his career at UC Berkeley, Park was named acting chancellor of UC Merced in September 2006, as...

UC Solar Extends UC Merced’s Reach Across the Pacific

September 11, 2013
Professor Roland Winston’s work has helped take UC Merced and UC Solar global – this time it’s to Singapore. The small city-nation is experiencing a building boom, and developers have plans to use Winston’s designs for a solar collector to make concrete walls the source of building light. Sounds...

UC Merced Alum Travels to U.K. for Master’s Program in Brain Sciences

September 9, 2013
With UC Merced in her hometown, Hillary Brown had an easy commute to her college campus. She’ll log many more miles on the way to graduate school. Brown is headed to the University of Glasgow in Scotland for a year-long, master’s-level program in brain sciences. She starts in mid-September. “I can’...

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