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SBC Pacific Bell Donates $100,000 to UC Merced to Create Engineering Scholarship Endowment

October 24, 2001
The University of California, Merced today announced that SBC Pacific Bell has donated $100,000 to fund scholarships for high-achieving undergraduate and graduate engineering students at UC Merced Expected to open in 2004, UC Merced has already begun attracting top engineering faculty to its campus...

Local Family Supports UC Merced With the Establishment of 10th Endowed Chair, Library Fundraiser

October 5, 2001
MERCED, CA — The Thondapu family of Merced has committed an endowed chair and spearheaded a major fund-raising campaign to purchase books for the University of California, Merced. To be formally announced tonight (October 5, 2001) during the UC Merced World Cultures Institute Library Fundraiser,...

Newest and Oldest UC Campuses Team Up on Innovative Technology Venture to Help California Students

October 1, 2001
A new technology venture between University of California campuses in Berkeley and Merced is gearing up this year to make the content of UC Berkeley lower-division computer science courses available online for the first time. The effort is expected to help Merced graduate its first computer science...

UC Merced, Merced County Announce One-Week Extension Of Public Comment Phase On Environmental Review Documents

September 18, 2001
Merced, CA — The University of California, Merced and Merced County have extended for an additional week the public comment phase for the draft Environmental Impact Reports [EIRs] for the proposed University Long Range Development Plan and the proposed University Community Plan. The extension...

A Special Letter to the Community from UC Merced Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Keasey

September 11, 2001
Dear Friends, I would like to share with you a letter I prepared to appear as a full-page ad in the Tuesday, September 11, 2001 edition of the Merced Sun-Star newspaper. Following is the text of that letter to the Merced community: On Monday, August 13th, the University of California, Merced and...

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Named

September 4, 2001
MERCED, CA — Jane Fiori Lawrence, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at the University of Vermont, has been named as the founding Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs for the University of California, Merced, it was announced today by Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Keasey. Expected to...

Additional Public Hearing On Draft Environmental Impact Reports

August 31, 2001
Merced, CA — The University of California, Merced and Merced County will hold a public hearing on Thursday, September 13 to receive public comments concerning the draft Environmental Impact Reports [EIRs] for the University Long Range Development Plan and the proposed University Community Plan. The...

UC Launches New Teacher-Training Center For Mono, Inyo, Alpine Counties

August 28, 2001
Parents and children are invited to attend a special Build It! Festivalon Saturday, September 1 at the 2001 Eastern Sierra Tri-County Fair in Bishop. Sponsored by the University of California, Merced, the festival will be located in the Charles Brown Building at the Inyo County Office of Education...

UC Merced Helps Bring Interactive ChemMystery Exhibit To Bakersfield’s Buena Vista Museum Of Natural History

August 24, 2001
The University of California, Merced, in collaboration with the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, proudly presents the ChemMystery exhibit at Bakersfields Buena Vista Museum of Natural History, 2018 Chester Avenue, beginning Monday, August 27. On loan from the Lawrence Hall of Science at the...

IR & LRDP Public Viewing

August 13, 2001
MERCED, CA — The development plans and EIRs released today by UC Merced and the County of Merced are very lengthy documents with hundreds of pages of text and accompanying maps. To simplify the public review process, the documents will be made available in several ways: Online Viewing Within a few...

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