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Snail Mucus and Spider Silk Entice Students to Pursue Pathsin Medicine and Engineering

March 5, 2004
MERCED, CA — Professor Christopher Viney tailors his stories to his audience. Some may hear about a life lived in Britain, South Africa, the United States, Scotland and now Merced. Others may learn about slugs, and how the remarkable properties of their slimy trails enable fellow slugs to determine...

March 2004 Campus Construction Photos

March 5, 2004

Valley Parents Are the Focus of UC Merced Grant

February 27, 2004
Unique proposal wins approval by the California Student Aid Commission MERCED, CA— GPAs. Entrance exams. Financial aid. Interest rates. In the San Joaquin Valley, where almost a quarter of households live below the poverty line and educational attainment is staggeringly low, parents often feel...

Hydrologist Martha Conklin Pursues Interdisciplinary Study of California Rivers and Streams

February 26, 2004
MERCED, CA — Imagine a group of middle school students - perhaps later this year - clustered on the banks of the upper Merced River. They're collecting data on stream water temperature and air temperature. And they'll pass their measurements on to Martha Conklin, Ph.D., a professor at the...

Prop 55 Has $10.8M for UC Merced Campus Projects

February 18, 2004
MERCED, CA — During their regular meeting in January 2004, UC regents endorsed the facilities bond act of 2004 that, if ratified by California voters in March, would pave the way for some $10.8 million in facility construction at UC Merced and billions more in improvements to public schools across...

Notice to Valley Students Who Applied to UC for Fall 2002 Admission or Who Have Had Contact with UC Merced's Outreach Units

February 17, 2004
MERCED, CA — Recently, we discovered an unfortunate situation regarding student information that our outreach units store. Specifically, a computer was hacked between October 2003 and January 2004, and a laptop computer was recently stolen from a UC Merced employee. The theft of the laptop computer...

Recent Campus Construction Photos (Feb. 2004)

February 17, 2004

University of California Tops Annual List of Universities Receiving Patents

February 17, 2004
MERCED, CA — For the 10 th consecutive year, the University of California is the leader among the nation's universities in developing new patents, according to a report announced this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The report presents a preliminary list of the U.S. universities...

Legislator Tour of UC Merced Campus

February 3, 2004

Graduate Students Begin Studies at UC Merced

January 27, 2004
MERCED, CA — Gifted young scholars often seek the leading edge of civilization in search of the sheer joy of discovery and accomplishment. The academic adventurers who lined up at the doors of UC Merced this fall are no exception. Eleven graduate students will begin coursework and research at the...

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