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Poet Laureate to Share Heroes Book with Area Youth

October 23, 2014
California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will share his new children's book about Hispanic American heroes with local youth next month, an event sponsored by the UC Merced Center for the Humanities and Merced County Library. The event, focused on what it means to be a hero, will also feature...

Solar Power Purchase Positions Campus for Total Renewable Energy Use

October 22, 2014
The University of California, Merced, will get 75 percent of its power from renewable sources by the end of 2016, and is on its way to being 100 percent renewably powered by then.   The University of California earlier this month agreed to make the largest solar energy purchase by any U.S. higher...

Decolonial Expert to Deliver Public Talk

October 21, 2014
Duke University Professor Walter Mignolo, a leading voice in decolonial theory, will be giving a free public lecture at UC Merced. The talk, “The Humanities and the Current World (Dis)order,” will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 20 in the California Room.  Walter D. Mignolo is an Argentine semiotician...

Student-run Journal Showcases Historical Essays, Reviews

October 20, 2014
Most UC Merced students have the desire to help shape the university — whether it’s the culture or the curriculum. Rocco Bowman was no different. Bowman is the co-founder of the Undergraduate Historical Journal and served as its inaugural chief editor. The journal is a collection of essays and...

Sociology a Lens That Focuses World's Events

October 15, 2014
Sociology at UC Merced is a prism that offers insight and perspective into what's happening in the world. Trying to understand how people mobilize under democracies or military dictatorships? Ask Professors Nella Van Dyke, Kyle Dodson or Paul Almeida. Curious about how colleges and high schools...

UC Merced Wins Innovation Grant from Small Business Development Center Regional Network

October 15, 2014
UC Merced’s Small Business Development Center Regional Network is the only entity in the state, and only one of 22 in the nation, to win a Federal and State Technology (FAST) grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The $90,900 the SBDC received will provide more information to small-...

Study Looks at Emotion's Role in Chemotherapy Tolerance

October 13, 2014
How patients perceive and talk about their illnesses can have an impact on how they recover and heal, according to a growing area of health research being furthered by UC Merced health psychology Professor Jitske Tiemensma. “It should be a team effort to treat a patient. Medical doctors often have...

Campus’s Direct Investment in Regional Economy Exceeds $1.1 Billion

October 13, 2014
The University of California, Merced, has directly invested more than $1.1 billion into the San Joaquin Valley economy since the newest UC campus began start-up operations in July 2000, according to the campus’s Division of Business and Administrative Services. The investment total represents an...

High School Students Get Road Map to College

October 10, 2014
Eleventh and 12th graders and their parents filled the gymnasium bleachers at McLane High School in Fresno on Thursday (Oct. 9) eager to find out what it takes — academically and financially — to access higher education. The systemwide Achieve UC event is meant to inspire students to aim for...

Two UCCE Specialists Joining ANR, Based at UC Merced

October 9, 2014
The University of California's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) has hired two UC Cooperative Extension specialists who will be based at UC Merced. Karina Diaz-Rios, specialist for nutrition, family and consumer sciences, joined ANR on Sept. 2. Tapan Pathak, specialist for climate...

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