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Researchers Turn Expertise Toward Regional Issues

June 11, 2010
For some UC Merced researchers, California’s San Joaquin Valley is the lab in which they can confront some of society’s problems. Like other universities, UC Merced has professors conducting studies across the world — including research on the snowpack in the...

UC Wins California Environmental Leadership Award

June 10, 2010
June 10, 2010 Global Green USA is honoring the University of California for the environmental commitment the university has demonstrated through its academic, research and sustainability practices. The California Environmental Leadership Award recognizes the UC system for its 32 LEEDgreen-...

Financial Aid Director Remembers Campus' Earliest Days

June 4, 2010
Many UC Merced staff members go all the way back to university’s beginnings. One is Diana Ralls, director offinancial aid and scholarships, who first started with the university in 1998. An alumna of UC Davis, she was working in financial aid at Fresno Pacific University. “I noticed the ‘UC Center...

UC Tops All Universities in Winning U.S. Patents

May 27, 2010
The University of California was awarded the most U.S. patents of any university last year, according to an annual report by the Intellectual Property Owners Association. In 2009, the 10-campus UC system received 251 patents for discoveries made by its researchers. The patents stem from UC ideas...

UC Merced to Test Sustainable Landscape Rating System

May 26, 2010
Planned Science and Engineering 2 building will be one of more than 150 sites in pilot program for the nation’s first rating system for green landscape design, construction and maintenance MERCED — The University of California, Merced, will be one of the first landscapes to participate in...

Student Athletes of the Year Chosen

May 25, 2010
Tim Bell and Darlene Escobedo couldn’t have predicted how their athletic endeavors at UC Merced would turn out, but they were both certain of one thing:Sportswould be a big part of their time here. Both ended up focusing on sports that were new to them when they came to UC Merced, and both...

Students Put Heads Together to Form Robotics Society

May 25, 2010
The formation of UC Merced’s Robotics Society is a story of collaboration and cooperation. Its existence, so far, has been no different. The brainchild ofengineeringmajors Ernesto Mora and Joshua Gonzales, the Robotics Society formed last summer and has grown to include 12 members representing all...

Sociology Student Focuses on Building Tomorrow's Leaders

May 21, 2010
Olivia Bentley has a deep-seated passion for community service which, bolstered bysociologyclasses at UC Merced, grows stronger each year. Bentley has been involved with the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life since the eighth grade and will draw on her considerable experience May 22-23 when...

Medical Education Plans Take Another Step Forward at UC Merced

May 19, 2010
The University of California, Merced, today announced the appointment of Donald M. Hilty, M.D., to the position of co-director of the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education. The appointment is the latest step in the university's long-term plan to develop a medical education...

UC Merced Celebrates Class of 2010

May 15, 2010
May 15, 2010 NBC News anchor Lester Holt gives keynote speech at commencement event MERCED, Calif. — Award-winning broadcast journalistLester Holturged some 321 graduates of the University of California, Merced to become free thinkers and critical consumers of news during his keynote address at...

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