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Ph.D. Student Attending UC Merced on Prestigious USDA Scholarship

December 12, 2013
UC Merced doctoral candidate Irvin Arroyo might have been destined for his chosen career path studying water and agriculture from a very young age. “Growing up on a farm, doing farm work and watching plants grow, I became interested in natural sciences,” he said. His parents supported his interest...

Grant Helps Strengthen Transfer Student Experience

December 9, 2013
University life can be hard, and for transfer students, it often proves even more daunting. Studies have shown they typically have low rates of campus engagement and retention, and take longer to earn their degree. But thanks to a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, that...

Campus Gives Back in Pints

December 6, 2013
The newest UC campus prides itself on its commitment to community service and helping others. Students, staff members and faculty members spend countless hours working in homeless shelters and food pantries, participating in clothing and toy drives, and much more. Now, you could say UC Merced is...

Chevron Selects Engineering Student for Summer Internship

December 4, 2013
Jose Garcia, a fourth-year student, will spend next summer as the only intern in Chevron Oronite’s Tribology division, with a small group of researchers who delve into lubricants, additives and the relationship between machines and fluids for the multinational corporation. The past two years, the...

Federally Funded Research to Provide Clarity in State Water Supply

November 25, 2013
Research in the Sierra Nevada central to addressing challenges to California’s water security and its link to the health of Sierra Nevada ecosystems will continue into 2018. The National Science Foundation awarded the University of California, Merced, $5 million to continue this work on the water,...

UC Merced Hopes to Use Rooftops to Generate Electricity

November 20, 2013
UC Merced is doubling down on its solar commitment. The campus is looking at installing rooftop solar systems on up to 11 main campus buildings and the chancellor’s residence, moving the campus closer to meeting its Triple Zero commitment and saving money. A request for proposals was issued in...

Globe-Trotting Graduate Student Finds a Home, Success at UC Merced

November 18, 2013
Most students don’t arrive at UC Merced by way of Germany and Hawaii. But graduate student Bodo Winter often takes a unique path. Now in his third year, this Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive and Information Sciences has immersed himself in research, collaborated and published multiple articles and...

New Big Data Program Draws NSF Funding for UC Merced

November 13, 2013
As the world continues to amass more digital data everyday, thousands of skilled mathematicians will be needed to slice it into meaningful pieces that can help power the information economy. With the help of an $880,000 grant, three of UC Merced’s applied math faculty members will help prepare some...

Graduate Student Finds Work in Sierra Rewarding

November 12, 2013
Graduate student Ryan Lucas is living a mountain-lover’s dream through his research. As part of engineering Professor Martha Conklin’s meadows-hydrology lab, he gets to spend a lot of time in the Sierra Nevada in Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon national parks, collecting data on how much water is...

Regents’ Scholarships Assure College Dream for Exceptional Students

November 7, 2013
But those financial worries disappeared once Gamboa learned she’d been awarded a UC Merced Regents’ Scholarship. The scholarship bridges any gap between financial aid and parental contributions — assuring each recipient that they can afford an education at UC Merced. “I was really concerned about...

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