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UC Merced Students Encourage Merced Youngsters to Say Yes to Engineering

March 22, 2019
Students from UC Merced’s Young Engineer and Scientist (YES) Academy visited Merced’s Pioneer Elementary School to help promote interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields last week. About 180 fourth graders were introduced to STEM through various...

UC Merced Joins UC Chicano/Latino Advisory Council

March 21, 2019
Representatives from UC Merced have joined President Janet Napolitano’s newly formed Chicano/Latino Advisory Council for the University of California. Founding faculty member Professor Rudy Ortiz, chair for the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the School of Natural Sciences...

‘Diverse’ Names Zatz One of the Nation’s Leading Women in Higher Ed

March 21, 2019
UC Merced’s Vice Provost and Graduate Dean Marjorie S. Zatz was selected as one of the Top 35 Women in Higher Education in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education’s eighth annual special report recognizing the contributions of women to higher education. The edition, in honor of Women...

Registration Open for 2019 Women's Basketball Prospect Clinic

March 20, 2019

Graduate Students Make a Case for Research at Capitol

March 20, 2019
Two UC Merced Ph.D. students took to the State Capitol yesterday with representatives from the other UC campuses to advocate for the importance of the research being done across California. Craig Ennis and Vicky Espinoza were accompanied by Vice Provost and Graduate Dean Marjorie Zatz to meet...

Chancellor's Dialogue: 'No Quick Fixes' for Gender Equity

March 19, 2019
UC Merced welcomed Beth Mitchneck, vice provost for Faculty Success at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, as part of Chancellor’s Dialogue on Diversity and Interdisciplinarity series last week. Mitchneck presented “Institutional Change for Equality: A Recipe for Change,”...

Sac Bee: Climate Change is Hurting Migrating Waterbirds

March 19, 2019

Alumna Staffer Pours Her Passion into Serving Students

March 19, 2019
Kisha McGuire has discovered an opportunity to do what she loves for an institution she’s grown to care deeply about. McGuire graduated from UC Merced in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, and soon started a full-time staff position in the Fiat Lux Scholars Program within...

Steele Records Triple-Double but the Bobcats Fall Short at OUAZ

March 17, 2019

Mother Nature Network: 5 Slimy Facts: Banana Slugs

March 15, 2019

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