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Honoring Mentors, Helping Students, UC Merced’s Chancellor Establishes Two Scholarships

November 5, 2007
MERCED - Steve Kang, the University of California, Merced’s chancellor, knows what the opportunity to go to college on scholarship can mean to a student. That’s how he started his own education. He also knows the value of mentoring from seasoned professors and administrators. So he and his wife...

Professor Selected for Presidential Science and Engineering Award

November 1, 2007
MERCED - Shawn Newsam, an assistant professor in the School of Engineering at the University of California, Merced, has been selected for a prestigious award from the White House. The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is bestowed by the president’s Office of...

Chancellor to Unveil Vision for UC Merced at Inauguration

October 29, 2007
Four days of celebrations and academic events will surround theNov. 6 ceremonyinauguratingSteve Kangas UC Merced’s second chancellor. Kang, who became chancellor March 1, is a fitting choice to lead the University of California’s newest campus as it seeks to make UC-level education more accessible...

Chancellor to Unveil Vision for UC Merced at Inauguration

October 29, 2007
Four days of celebrations and academic events will surround the Nov. 6 ceremony inaugurating Steve Kang as UC Merced’s second chancellor. Kang, who became chancellor March 1, is a fitting choice to lead the University of California’s newest campus as it seeks to make UC-level education more...

Student Advises Peers to Do Their Best

October 26, 2007
Ifengineeringgraduatestudent Emily Reed was asked to give advice to undergraduates, she would say, “Do your best in all of your work. You don’t know how useful something could be later on.” Reed knows about this firsthand. While an undergraduate at UC Merced, she was a Regents Scholar, which she...

UC named one of America's Top 10 "coolest" schools

October 25, 2007
Sierra Magazine has named the University of California system one of America’s Top 10 “coolest” schools for its efforts to stop global warming. UC ranked No. 4 on the Sierra Club magazine’s inaugural listing of the nation’s greenest campuses ( http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra), which hit...

UC Merced Moves Forward with Med School Plans

October 19, 2007
Efforts to establish a UC Merced School of Medicine recently crossed another milestone and received a boost at the same time. The “Preliminary Program Proposal and Business Plan to Establish a UC Merced School of Medicine” was recently completed and is being submitted to UC Merced faculty for...

Balancing Acting: Senior Takes the Stage

October 19, 2007
Despite a successful weekend performing as Curly in the Playhouse Merced production of “Oklahoma!” H.D. Southerland wasn’t exactly singing “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” on a cool October Monday. He’d worked his overnight hotel job and also had his full-time course load inpsychologyandphilosophyto...

UC Merced Moves Forward with Med School Plans

October 19, 2007
Efforts to establish aUC Merced School of Medicinerecently crossed another milestone and received a boost at the same time. The Preliminary Program Proposal and Business Plan to Establish a UC Merced School of Medicine was recently completed and is being submitted to UC Merced faculty for comments...

$1.1 Million McNair Grant Awarded to UC Merced

October 15, 2007
MERCED - The U.S. Department of Education has awarded University of California, Merced, with a Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program grant, which should give the university at least $220,000 each year for the next five years. The grant will allow 25 students, generally low-income...

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