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UC Application Workshops Scheduled for San Joaquin Valley Students

November 5, 2004
DATES & TIMES: Bakersfield: Monday, November 15, 2004 - 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. UC Merced Bakersfield Center University Square, 2000 K St., Bakersfield Location: The Lakes Meeting Room - 2nd Floor Modesto: Monday, November 15, 2004 - 6 to 8 p.m. UC Cooperative Extension 3800 Cornucopia Way...

Building Dedications Mark Progress of California Institutes for Science and Innovation

October 29, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE University of California Office of the President tel. (510) 987-9200 Starting today (Oct. 29) and continuing in the coming weeks, dedications for three new research buildings that are part of the California Institutes for Science and Innovation will mark the next stage in...

UC Merced Seeks First Undergraduate Student Applications

October 29, 2004
MERCED, CA. — Calling all students: UC Merced is seeking applications from prospective freshman and transfer students who wish to be the first to enroll at the new University of California campus opening next year. Students are strongly encouraged to submit the University of California's...

UC Merced’s Roland Winston Resolves 40-Year Particle Physics Problem

October 28, 2004
MERCED — UC Merced Professor Roland Winston and two colleagues have published a solution to a 40-year-old quandary in particle physics. They reanalyzed many years of measurements of mu meson and neutron decay to obtain a new result that satisfies mathematical requirements and confirms the accuracy...

A Mountain Home Base for Big-Picture Science: The Wawona SNRI Field Station

October 26, 2004
Native Americans in the Yosemite area called the site of the current town of Wawona Pallachun, “a good place to stay.” Student and faculty researchers of the UC Merced Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) agree. They have a new base of operations in the Sierra Nevada: the Wawona SNRI Field ...

Climbing Offers Level-headed Approach to Challenges for Dean Kenji Hakuta

October 26, 2004
About 10 years ago, Kenji Hakuta was on sabbatical leave from Stanford and decided to try something new. He picked up rock climbing through a weekend climbing class with UC Berkeley and has been climbing ever since. My major goal in climbing has been to enjoy the company and the views, not...

The University of California Releases Bilingual Admissions Guide

October 15, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ricardo Vázquez (510) 287-3301 ricardo.vazquez@ucop.edu To better serve Spanish-speaking families throughout the state, the University of California Office of the President has published a new version of “Great futures start here” or “Un futuro brillante comienza aquí,” a...

Recent Campus Construction Photos

October 13, 2004

UC Merced Wins $2.7 Million to Establish Center for Computational Biology

October 13, 2004
MERCED — The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing has awarded a three-year, $900,000-per-year grant to the University of California, Merced, to establish a Center for Computational Biology (CCB). Researchers at the CCB will use computer simulations to help understand...

President Dynes' Statement on UC's Latest Nobel Laureate

October 11, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News Office (510) 987-9200 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today (Monday) announced that the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Finn E. Kydland, who holds the Jeff Henley Endowed Chair in Economics at UC Santa Barbara...

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