Emily C. Wilson has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the first UC Merced student given this honor.
The fellowship, which is renewable for up to three years, allows her to both focus on pursuing herdoctoraldegree inquantitative systems biologyand...
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April 30, 2010
April 30, 2010
Merced the second UC campus to receive designation, which
provides enhanced access to funding for student support services,
faculty development and renovation of instructional facilities
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UC Merced has been designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution by
the U.S....
April 28, 2010
April 28, 2010
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UC Merced has added minors in Chicano/a studies, public health,
chemical sciences, and environmental sciences and sustainability.
The university now offers 19 majors and 22 minors through its
three schools.
The new programs will be available in fall 2010.
Beginning...
April 23, 2010
UC Mercedapplied mathProfessorHarish Bhatwatched the financial markets collapse while he was teaching at Columbia University several years ago.
The costly miscalculations by so many major Wall Street firms and the unanswered questions about what went so wrong compelled Bhat to look into the...
April 23, 2010
Four UC Mercedgraduatestudents expanded their curriculum vitae after publishing essays in a book that builds on Orientalism, an idea from literary and culture critic Edward Said, who was critical of the way Western countries viewed the East.
The book,“One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing...
April 22, 2010
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UC Merced’s inaugural Sustainability Strategic Plan is a
document that outlines the campus’ sustainability goals and how it
will achieve them.
The plan is supplemented by the university’s
sustainability website,
sustainability.ucmerced.edu.
The formation of the plan and Web site was...
April 21, 2010
April 21, 2010
UC Merced
psychological sciencesProfessorWilliam
Shadishhas received a grant to develop new statistics for
measuring the effects of educational interventions on individual students.
Beginning May 1, the research will be funded at $974,523 over
three years. The grant is from the...
April 16, 2010
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UC Merced students are spearheading a series of events in
celebration of Earth Week, April 19 to 23.
The inaugural Earth Week Speaker Series, organized by Green
Campus UC Merced, will focus on the increasing availability of
“green” jobs and how to go about finding them.
Other...
April 16, 2010
When it comes to preparing the leaders of tomorrow, UC Merced is making good on its mission. Whether attendinggraduateschool or pursuing a career, the university’salumniare already making their mark.
One thing they know for sure is that their education from UC Merced has opened up a world of ...
April 16, 2010
Monica Medinaand her students have recently gleaned new insight into the effect of climate change on coral reef health.Michael Dawsonis using marine studies to learn about how environmental variation influences the distributions of genes, organisms, populations and species.
Michael Bemanstudies...
