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'Einstein for Beginners' Leads Physics Student to a Path That 'Matters'

August 28, 2009
Luis Martinez’s path to college wasn’t a straight line. In fact, higher education wasn’t originally a part of his post-high school plans. “I didn’t think about going to college,” he said. “I didn’t even think that I could.” Fast forward to 2009. This semester, Martinez started his second year as...

UC Merced Begins Milestone Year

August 24, 2009
Merced, Calif. — It’s a busy day for the University of California, Merced. Classes for fall 2009 officially begin tomorrow (Aug. 25). Officials expect about 3,200 students to be on campus this year, up 15 percent from last year. The growing population proves that even in difficult economic times,...

Campus Abuzz with Activity as Students Move In

August 21, 2009
The UC Merced campus is a thriving college community this weekend. About 1,200 students will move in to their campus homes for the academic year. Friday was the university’s official move-in day, but students will be filing in throughout the weekend. According to Leslie Santos, director...

Campus Abuzz with Activity as Students Move In

August 21, 2009
The UC Merced campus is a thriving college community this weekend. About 1,200 students will move in to their campus homes for the academic year. Friday was the university’s official move-in day, but students will be filing in throughout the weekend. According to Leslie Santos, director of housing...

Research Experience Helps UC Merced Alums Land NIH Jobs

August 21, 2009
Well before they graduated last spring with bachelor’s degrees from UC Merced, Haruka Swendsen and Matthew Kellom had a career plan. The two knew they would apply tograduateschool. But first, they wanted gain more research experience. Both worked successfully with UC Merced professors in their...

Grad Student Mixes Disciplines to Understand Proteins

August 14, 2009
Joshua Phillips considers himself acomputer scientist, but he’s quickly becoming an expert inmolecular dynamics. With any luck, hiscomputationaltechniques combined with a little intuition will lead to a better understanding of “intrinsically disordered” proteins - proteins that function without...

UC Merced to Lead Multicampus Research Program on Solar Energy

August 13, 2009
As the world’s hunger for energy grows and fossil fuel supplies become less certain, the need to develop alternative renewable energy sources is paramount. The most abundant source of renewable energy is the sun. However, current technology used to convert sunlight into electricity is still...

Valley Students Benefit from UC Merced Center

August 13, 2009
UC Merced was established in the San Joaquin Valley partly to address chronically low levels of educational attainment in the region and throughout California’s greater Central Valley. According to UC Office of the President data, applications to University of California campuses from Central...

Valley Students Benefit from UC Merced Center

August 13, 2009
UC Merced was established in the San Joaquin Valley partly to address chronically low levels of educational attainment in the region and throughout California’s greater Central Valley. According to UC Office of the President data, applications to University of California campuses from Central...

Students Seek Renewable Energy Solutions

August 7, 2009
At first glance, the group that toured UC Merced earlier this week looked like typical students visiting campus for the first time. But they weren’t here to enjoy the scenery. There were looking at ways to get more power to the people – renewable power. Twenty-six students from seven universities...

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