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Family, Travel, Academic Accomplishment Blend Successfully for Jessica Green

February 4, 2005
There was just one little obstacle to Jessica Lee Green's plan to attend the first-ever international Scaling Biodiversity workshop in Prague in the fall of 2004. And it was only small in the most literal sense. Green was expecting her second child shortly after the important October conference....

Cash for College Workshop Set for Feb. 15 at UC Merced Fresno Center

February 4, 2005
MERCED, CA — Financial resources are available to help pay the costs of a college or university education, but too many San Joaquin Valley students are missing out. The Central Valley Higher Education Consortium, for example, reports that only 28 percent of students in the region who qualify for...

Recreational Field Campaign Seeks Support

February 4, 2005
In addition to the social and recreational opportunities offered by non-universityentities in town, UC Merced is planning on-campus facilities and programs to enhance the lives of students. As the first of these, the university plans to create an NCAA-regulation-sized soccer playing field where...

Creating the Big Picture " Literally " of Historical Geography

January 21, 2005
Digital maps can bring together historical data on religion, politics, culture and more, placing them visually in space and time. Their computerized animations can create customized big-picture synopses so flexible they can be used in elementary school classrooms or in top-level research. The...

Local Fly-fishing Offers Challenge, Renewal for Budget Director Marna Cooper

January 21, 2005
As a child, Marna Cooper did a little fishing off the hull of the Cement Ship in Santa Cruz. As a result, her picture landed on the front page of the newspaper. After what she calls a long hiatus, she's fishing again, this time in the rivers around Merced. Cooper is the budget director at UC Merced...

9,000 Students Apply for Admission in UC Merced's Opening Year

January 19, 2005
MERCED, CA — More than 9,000 students have applied to the University of California, Merced for admission to undergraduate and graduate programs in fall 2005, according to preliminary numbers released today (Jan. 19, 2005). For the opening year, projections have called for UC Merced to enroll 1,000 ...

Tsunami Fund-Raising Relief Link

January 12, 2005
MERCED, CA — Campus Community Our thoughts go out to the millions of individuals living through the horror of the tsunami that hit South Asia in late December. Presidents George H. Bush and Bill Clinton are leading a national charitable fund-raising relief effort. If you would like information...

Professor Roland Winston Publishes Authoritative Text in Nonimaging Optics

January 12, 2005
MERCED, CA — Professor Roland Winston of The University of California, Merced, has authored a new textbook, “Nonimaging Optics.” The text encompasses the progress made in the field of nonimaging optics over the last ten years. Winston is considered a pioneer in nonimaging optics, a science...

Competitive Cycling: Pleasure, Not Punishment for Professor David Kelley

January 11, 2005
Some might call him a glutton for punishment. But some would say that about any committed, competitive athlete. Professor David Kelley has taken his punishment on a bike as a competitive racing cyclist for the last 15 years. He prefers the grueling race called the time trial, where riders start at...

Adjunct Professor van Breugel Leads Star Formation Discovery

January 10, 2005
MERCED, CA — UC Merced adjunct professor Willem van Breugel helped lead a team of astronomers who have discovered how ominous black holes can create life in the form of new stars, proving that jet-induced star formation may have played an important role in the formation of galaxies in the early ...

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