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Campus Honors Impact of Top Donors at Annual Event

March 21, 2016
Campus supporters, administrative and academic leadership, faculty members, students and alumni gathered for UC Merced’s Celebration of Philanthropic Leaders event, held March 19 to recognize the campus’s annual giving and leadership donors. “From student scholarships and fellowships to research...

Students Can Catch Up, Save Up With Summer Session

March 17, 2016
Completing degree requirements in eight semesters can be challenging for many students. Add a minor, a job or a semester abroad, and students can easily find themselves playing catch-up. That’s why UC Merced senior Shelby Smith, a typical student seeking to pack as much as possible into her college...

Statement From Chancellor Dorothy Leland

March 17, 2016
UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland issued the following statement regarding the results of the FBI’s investigation into the Nov. 4 attack on campus: “We are relieved to finally have resolution to this very tragic event on the UC Merced campus. This concludes the investigation, which was a...

Study: Fishing Industry a Bigger Polluter than Previously Known

March 14, 2016
Many studies have shown that raising cattle and pigs for food is hard on the environment, and fish has long been considered a better alternative. But the work of UC Merced graduate student Brandi McKuin indicates that because of emissions, fishing for large fish like tuna warms the climate just as...

Lecture to Highlight Campus’s Diverse, Interdisciplinary Spirit

March 14, 2016
UC Merced is launching a new public lecture series that combines the campus’s emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship with its strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. The Chancellor’s Dialogue on Diversity and Interdisciplinarity will host its inaugural lecture at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March...

Student Volunteers Work With Local Emergency Department

March 7, 2016
In Fall 2007, Maricela Rangel-Garcia became one of the first UC Merced students to sign up for a new, non-clinical volunteer program in the busy Mercy Medical Center Emergency Department (ED). Her participation in what has become a vital and growing program cemented her career path.  “I decided to...

New Study Shows Early Human Impacts on Biodiversity

March 7, 2016
Even without all the industrial and technological growth that has accelerated climate change, humans can — and do — dramatically impact ecosystems. A new paper in Nature Communications, co-authored by UC Merced Professor Marilyn Fogel, indicates early humans were responsible for the fairly rapid...

GradSLAM! Finalists Hope to Become Campus Champion

March 4, 2016
Ten UC Merced graduate students are going to the campuswide finals of the GradSLAM! competition in the hopes of becoming campus champion and competing with grad students from across the UC system. The Graduate Division kicked off its second annual GradSLAM! with two sets of qualifying rounds on...

UC Merced | Making Memories

March 2, 2016

Women's Basketball Wins Second Straight Conference Title

March 2, 2016
The UC Merced women's basketball team won its second consecutive Cal-Pac Conference championship Tuesday night, with a 76-56 victory in the conference tournament title game on the road against the California Maritime Academy. After scoring just eight points in the first quarter, the Bobcats...

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