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Undergraduate Research Helps Senior Get into Harvard

May 4, 2010
UC Mercedbioengineeringmajor Christian Ayeni had nearly decided against applying to Harvard University’s virology program last fall. Not only was it an Ivy League school, he reasoned, it was charging an application fee about twice what he had been paying at other universities. Still, something...

President Jimmy Carter to Visit UC Merced Campus May 3

May 3, 2010
President Jimmy Carter will visit the University of California, Merced, campus today (May 3) to deliver the keynote address at a National Parks Instituteseminar on the management of parks and protected lands and receive the 2010 Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and...

Graduate Student Earns NSF Fellowship for Research, Outreach

May 2, 2010
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...

UC Merced Designated as Hispanic-Serving Institution

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 Quick Facts UC Merced has been designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the U.S....

University Adds Four Minors in Expansion of Programs

April 28, 2010
April 28, 2010 Quick Facts 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...

Financial Crash Sends UC Merced Mathematician into New Territory

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...

Graduate Students Publish, Network Through Orientalism Conference

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...

Sustainability Strategies Outlined in New Planning Document

April 22, 2010
Quick Facts 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...

Professor Awarded Grant to Study Educational Interventions

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...

Marine Scientists Finding a Home at UC Merced

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...

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