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Governor's Budget Supports Student Enrollment Growth

January 10, 2007
Focus Placed on Research and Innovation Critical to State MERCED, CA— The 2007-08 state budget proposal issued today (Jan. 10) by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger supports the University of California’s service to California by funding growth in student enrollments, proposing a major research and...

UC Wants You to Be a Student Regent

January 5, 2007
Wanted: One student to serve for two years as a student regent on the governing board for the entire UC system.Job duties: One year as student regent designate, working with the current student regent, and a second year as the student regent, discussing major issues and voting with the UC Board of...

Former Air Force Captain Finds UC Merced the Perfect Grad School Choice

January 5, 2007
Don’t try to convince Trevor Albertson there’s anything lacking here. He has traveled the world, lived in Washington, D.C. and taught at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, and he chose UC Merced. The 26-year-old graduate student said he finds everything he needs here in Merced - a town that used...

South Merced’s Underserved Students to Benefit from Grant to UC Merced

December 18, 2006
MERCED - The University of California, Merced, received funding to further a relationship with the Boys and Girls Club of Merced County, the Community Partnership Alliance and local schools, and to establish two academic enrichment programs and a parent program. The $30,000 grant from the...

Students Reach Out with Holiday Spirit

December 15, 2006
Since the campus’s opening last year, Enrique Guzman, coordinator for Student Life, said students have been knocking on his office door every semester with fundraising ideas in their heads and the spirit of giving in their hearts. Students want the community to know that we care, Guzman said. This...

Gajic-Bruyea Enjoying Challenge of New Job, New Country

December 15, 2006
Making the transition to a new job isn’t always easy, but add that to the efforts of moving to another country, and it really becomes a challenge. A native of Toronto, Canada, Susana Gajic-Bruyea always imagined she’d live and work somewhere else. But when it came to the United States, she...

Chancellor Park on UCLA Database Breach

December 12, 2006
Dear UC Merced Faculty, Staff and Student Employees, I am writing to notify you of a computer hacking incident of a restricted UCLA database that may involve your personal information. Evidence of the break-in was discovered Nov. 21, 2006, and computer security staff immediately shut down the...

Student Alex Kang , UC Merced's First Webvoice

December 11, 2006
UC Merced student Alex Kang has a voice meant for the airwaves - or in this day and age, the Internet. An economics major, Kang, 23, didn’t envision spending his senior year as a broadcaster. But he’s the creator and host of UC Merced’s bi-monthly podcast, keeping the college community up on...

UC Merced Extends Application Deadline, Offers More New Majors, Minors

December 11, 2006
Prospective students have plenty of time to explore UC Merced’s newest offerings for fall 2007 political science and history because the application deadline has been extended until Jan. 31, 2007. UC Merced joins a number of other UC campuses in allowing extra time for fall 2007 applicants to...

UC Merced Extends Application Deadline, Offers More New Majors

December 6, 2006
Editor’s note: Only select programs are open for the extended application period at Davis and Los Angeles. MERCED - Students who want to get in on the ground floor of a new UC campus with all its new programs and enjoy a world-class UC education in a more intimate setting have even more...

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