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UC Merced Sees 26 Percent Increase in Private Funding

September 19, 2013
The University of California, Merced, recorded $5.04 million in private gift and grant support from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013 — an increase of 26 percent over the last fiscal year’s total of $3.98 million. The percentage increase in private funding was far higher than the national average and...

UC Goes Social to Raise Scholarship Funds

September 18, 2013
The University of California today (Sept. 18) began Promise for Education, a six-week crowd-funding campaign to engage students, faculty, alumni, celebrities, businesses, politicians and supporters in a novel drive to raise money for UC student scholarships. The Promise for Education model is...

Exhibit Brings Valley Threads Together

September 16, 2013
An exhibit coordinated by a UC Merced professor weaves together music, literature, photography, video and oral history to tell stories of the workers who keep the region’s economy moving. “Central Valley Threads: Picking Out Strands of Life and Art in the Central Valley” opens at the Merced...

Roderic Park, Former Acting Chancellor, Dies at 81

September 13, 2013
Roderic Park, former acting chancellor of UC Merced and a major campus planner and benefactor, passed away on Sept. 6. He was 81. A distinguished professor, researcher and administrator who spent most of his career at UC Berkeley, Park was named acting chancellor of UC Merced in September 2006, as...

UC Solar Extends UC Merced’s Reach Across the Pacific

September 11, 2013
Professor Roland Winston’s work has helped take UC Merced and UC Solar global – this time it’s to Singapore. The small city-nation is experiencing a building boom, and developers have plans to use Winston’s designs for a solar collector to make concrete walls the source of building light. Sounds...

UC Merced Alum Travels to U.K. for Master’s Program in Brain Sciences

September 9, 2013
With UC Merced in her hometown, Hillary Brown had an easy commute to her college campus. She’ll log many more miles on the way to graduate school. Brown is headed to the University of Glasgow in Scotland for a year-long, master’s-level program in brain sciences. She starts in mid-September. “I can’...

UC Merced San Joaquin Valley PRIME Announces Third Class of Students

September 4, 2013
Six students with close ties to the San Joaquin Valley are on track to becoming physicians as part of the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (PRIME). The group, which began their medical studies recently in Sacramento and represents the third cohort in the program, includes:...

Well-known Technology Sees New Use in Solar Collection

September 3, 2013
Adapting technology that has become the standard in the automotive, aerospace and air-conditioning industries, Professor Gerardo Diaz has designed and is testing the next generation of solar-collecting units at UC Merced. ”We’re getting about 10 percent increase in efficiency,” said Diaz, with the...

UC Merced Welcomes Four New Board of Trustee Members

August 30, 2013
University of California, Merced, welcomes four new members to the UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees. Representing an expansive and influential network, the newest members are: Gary Kremen, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of Match.com; Christine Long, Merced almond processor and...

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy to Perform at Local Theater

August 30, 2013
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy brings its swinging sound to downtown Merced this fall, an event organized by Arts UC Merced Presents. The high-energy, nine-piece ensemble, which helped jumpstart the swing revival in the mid-90s, is celebrating its 20th anniversary and promoting its latest album, “Rattle Them...

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