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"Bones" Professor Finds Clues to Lives, Deaths in Skeletal Remains

August 24, 2007
Vicki Wedel might have been an amazing doctor, except for one minor problem.”The only patients I wanted to be around were the dead ones,” she said. That’s why she spends her time examining bones:  prehistoric bones, bones from Colonial America, and even more recent - but unidentified - skeletons...

Learn About Farmworker Life in "Living Under the Trees" Exhibit Beginning Sept. 4

August 22, 2007
The School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at UC Merced Presents “Living Under the Trees,” a photo documentary exhibition and associated events. David Bacon has documented the lives of Mexican indigenous farmworkers in California, and his photo documentary, “Living Under the Trees,” will...

UC Merced Research Awards Top $12 Million This Year

August 21, 2007
MERCED - Research grants and awards for the University of California, Merced’s 80 professors sharply increased this past fiscal year, with more than $12 million coming from a variety of sources for some of the state’s most cutting-edge research. A total of 76 awards, amounting to $12,208,232, came...

Staff Member Looks to the Global Future

August 17, 2007
Fatima Paul, the committee analyst at UC Merced, makes her home in the Central Valley, but she lives in a global world. Born in the French Alps, Paul finished her education at Montpelier with a master’s degree in English literature. She worked for the National Institutes for Health/National Cancer...

Writing Workshops Help Teachers Learn Best Practices

August 17, 2007
Merced - Kindergarten through community college teachers are invited to the UC Merced Writing Project’s 2007-2008 Saturday Outreach Series to learn more about best practices for teaching to the California State Writing Standards. More than 100 teachers county-wide have already taken part in...

Bridge Crossing, Convocation - A Campus Tradition Continues

August 17, 2007
Plans are being finalized now for this year’s opening ceremonies, the Scholars Bridge Crossing & Convocation. Incoming students should meet at the dining commons at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 30. Once everyone is gathered, a procession will march up Scholars Lane, across the bridge, and into...

Class Project Reveals Best Commute Route to Campus

August 10, 2007
Thanks to grad student David Gravano and his class project, commuters to campus can now learn the best route to UC Merced. InProfessor Mike Colvin’sQuantitative and Systems Biology (QSB 280) class in spring 2007, Gravano studied advanced mathematical biology and needed to choose a computer...

Getting Ready to Welcome Fall's Students

August 10, 2007
The whole campus is getting ready to welcome new students and welcome back those who are returning. Welcome Week 2007 begins on Move-In Day, Friday, Aug. 24. As you register beginning at 8 a.m., attend a vendors’ fair and even catch a movie, The Number 23, at 10 p.m. Move-in Weekend is always a...

UC Merced Expanding Knowledge About Climate Change

August 6, 2007
MERCED - Experts in climate change at University of California, Merced, are working on research that will help people better understand the world around them and how change affects everything from mountains to oceans, including the environs of the San Joaquin Valley. “The work of our faculty and...

Donation Brings UC Merced's Solar Program One Step Closer to Providing Sustainable Energy

August 3, 2007
MERCED - The University of California, Merced, the only UC campus with a designated solar energy research program, has received a $225,000 donation from an internationally recognized scientist. The gift will support future solar energy research that has the potential to alleviate the world’s...

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