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Hometown University Unlocks Doors for David Thatcher

July 5, 2005
Looking out his bedroom window a mile from campus, incoming freshman David Thatcher has watched UC Merced’s buildings rise in the last two years. But he’s had his eye on the tenth campus in the UC system for a lot longer than that. When Thatcher moved with his family to Merced in 1997, he was only...

A Dotted Line Comes Full Circle for Professor Teenie Matlock

June 24, 2005
When Teenie Matlock was a child in nearby Mariposa, she listened to deer-hunting stories told by her paternal grandfather, who was part Sierra Miwok. She remembers him drawing symbols in the dirt as he spoke. For example, a dotted line represented a trail or route, and an x represented a person or...

Fresh Choices Characterize Campus Dining

June 24, 2005
Students, faculty and staff at UC Merced will be treated daily to nutritious, tempting, restaurant-quality choices at the Valley Dining Commons, the main dining center on campus. On any given day, they can choose the;crunch cereal bar with assorted toppings, sandwiches on freshly baked bread, or a...

UC, Calif. Community Colleges Partner to Support Community Colleges Through Professional Development, Leadership Training and Research

June 23, 2005
UC contact: Ravi Poorsina (510) 587-6194ravi.poorsina@ucop.edu CCC contact: Ron Owens (916) 327-5356rowens@cccco.eduThe University of California and the California Community Colleges are forming a new collaborative program that will provide professional development, leadership training and...

UC Merced Professor Receives Prop. 99 Grant Money to Study Tobacco Effects

June 20, 2005
MERCED - In 1988, California voters approved Proposition 99, an initiative specifying that five percent of cigarette tax revenue be appropriated for research on tobacco-related disease. UC Merced professor Henry Jay Forman is now bringing $420,000 of that money to Merced to study how human...

Master of a Miniature World: Staffer Combines Interests to Create Lifelike Models

June 20, 2005
Readers may not have recognized them, but construction machines from the UC Merced campus site appeared in the April 2005 issue of Model Magazine to show how hard work in hard conditions can affect heavy machinery. “People who build models of heavy equipment or other vehicles want to make them...

Overcoming a Rough Start, Salysia Perez Seizes Success

June 13, 2005
Growing up, Salysia Perez watched multiple family members ” including her mother and the aunt who reared her up until her freshman year at Fresno’s Hoover High School ” succumb to substance abuse and addiction. “I didn’t want to be part of that cycle,” she affirms. Her individual determination has...

Upcoming Deadlines for Incoming Students

June 13, 2005
As of June 10, more than 1000 undergraduates have submitted their Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) for fall 2005 at UC Merced! Hundreds of faculty and staff members - not to mention friends of UC Merced in this area and around the state of California - are celebrating that fact and eagerly...

Registered UC Students Now Eligible to Use Rec Facilities at Any UC Campus

June 10, 2005
To support student health throughout the UC system, a policy of reciprocity is being adopted by the Recreational Sports Consortium, starting June 1, 2005. During the one year pilot program, all registered UC students may use the recreational facilities at any UC campus.Throughout the UC system,...

UC Merced Supports Health Services, New Enclosure for Bobcat at Local Zoo

June 8, 2005
Four years ago, local elementary students chose the Golden Bobcat as UC Merced’s mascot. Today, a real live bobcat would like to be a part of UC Merced’s first class on opening day. A four-month-old cub was anonymously dumped at Merced’s Applegate Zoo a few weeks ago, where zoo workers found...

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