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New Big Data Program Draws NSF Funding for UC Merced

November 13, 2013
As the world continues to amass more digital data everyday, thousands of skilled mathematicians will be needed to slice it into meaningful pieces that can help power the information economy. With the help of an $880,000 grant, three of UC Merced’s applied math faculty members will help prepare some...

Graduate Student Finds Work in Sierra Rewarding

November 12, 2013
Graduate student Ryan Lucas is living a mountain-lover’s dream through his research. As part of engineering Professor Martha Conklin’s meadows-hydrology lab, he gets to spend a lot of time in the Sierra Nevada in Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon national parks, collecting data on how much water is...

Regents’ Scholarships Assure College Dream for Exceptional Students

November 7, 2013
But those financial worries disappeared once Gamboa learned she’d been awarded a UC Merced Regents’ Scholarship. The scholarship bridges any gap between financial aid and parental contributions — assuring each recipient that they can afford an education at UC Merced. “I was really concerned about...

UC Merced Tells Madera Students: College is Attainable

November 6, 2013
For Melissa Ugaldes and many San Joaquin Valley high school students like her, a University of California education might not be an obvious option. That’s why leaders from UC Merced visited Madera South High School on Tuesday to speak to 11th- and 12th-graders as part of Achieve UC. “I never really...

UC Merced, UCSF Fresno and Fresno State Join Forces to Address Valley Fever

November 4, 2013
Seeking to combat a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease commonly found in the San Joaquin Valley, three regional institutions are uniting to improve the area’s health. The University of California, Merced, Health Sciences Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco Fresno...

Graduate Student Finds Her Calling in Medical Research

November 4, 2013
Graduate student Portia Mira has always liked helping people and learning ever since she found refuge in school from her dysfunctional home life. She focuses on taking care of others, including her younger, disabled sister, and her work here at UC Merced is no different. By researching antibiotics...

Grant to Prepare Undergraduates for Research Careers

October 31, 2013
A dozen UC Merced undergraduates will gain an edge in their journey toward a career in biomedical and behavioral research, courtesy of five years’ funding from the National Institutes of Health. The campus recently received a Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) grant from the National...

Campus's Economic Contribution to Region Approaches $1 Billion

October 29, 2013
The nearly $1 billion the University of California, Merced, has pumped into the region’s economy since operations began is significantly contributing to the San Joaquin Valley’s economic recovery, according to data released today by the university. The value of wages and benefits paid, construction...

Researchers Win Prestigious Grant to Study Similarities in Language, Molecules

October 25, 2013
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has begun an ambitious quest to discover common principles that guide evolution of structures at the linguistic and molecular levels. Professors Rick Dale in cognitive science, David Ardell in evolutionary biology and...

Research Investment Grows to Record $17.3 Million

October 22, 2013
Research expenditures at the University of California, Merced, increased by more than 9 percent in the 2012-13 fiscal year, to a record $17.3 million, according to data released today by the university’s Office of Business and Financial Services. The expenditures supported faculty research into a...

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