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Founding Faculty Member Honored with NSF Grant for Excellence

June 19, 2013
A five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation is helping Professor Alberto Cerpa develop the next big breakthrough in wireless sensor networks – an autonomous, self-learning system that uses its own energy wisely. “We need to maximize its lifetime while maximizing the amount of data...

Grad Student’s Farmland Mapping Project Gets Prestigious Publisher

June 17, 2013
Working to map every square inch, UC Merced master’s student Andrew Zumkehr found there are 111 million acres of abandoned farmland in the United States. That’s a lot of space for growing biofuels that could replace between 5 percent and 30 percent of the United States' primary energy or liquid...

Undergraduates Win Coveted APS Summer Research Fellowships

June 10, 2013
Two UC Merced undergraduates will spend the summer immersed in research after winning prestigious fellowships from the American Physiological Society. Sophomores Debby Lee and Meagan Moreno competed on a national level for the 10-week, $4,000 fellowships that will support them during their first...

Professor’s Work Earns Her a Spot in Prestigious Journal

June 5, 2013
Using some of the tiniest fossils in the world to help clarify how climate change is modeled has earned Professor Jessica Blois a big honor – publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Blois, one of the newest professors in the School of Natural Sciences, is a...

Science, Math Program to Offer More Paths to Aspiring Teachers

June 3, 2013
Armanti Hardesty is ready to join the next generation of teachers. “We’re all going into a more technological age,” said Hardesty, an alumnus from Long Beach. “It’s great to have new teachers learning the best ways to help students.” Hardesty left UC Merced in May with a degree in sociology and a...

Anthropology Lab Gives Students a Tactile Edge

May 28, 2013
With a growing collection of artifacts and replicas, UC Merced’s anthropology teaching laboratory gives students the ability to hold history in their hands. Students taking anthropology courses are able to study replica casts from Australopithecus, Neanderthal and other human ancestors. They can...

Political Journalist Alumnus Witnesses History Makers at Work

May 22, 2013
  As a founding student at UC Merced, Justin Duckham, ’09, trudged up the hill every day for classes. Now, he spends many of his days on a different hill — Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. “I go to a couple of briefings each day on the hill or at the Pentagon,” said Duckham, senior Washington...

Graduating Doctoral Student Pursues Research in Language, Behavior

May 20, 2013
Graduate student Stephanie Huette knew she would face challenges at UC Merced. The University of California’s 10th and newest campus was in its earliest stages when she arrived in 2008. No one sugar-coated the reality that there was more work ahead to develop the first new American research...

Development Plan's Amendment Endorsed by UC Board of Regents

May 15, 2013
The University of California, Merced, today received approval from the UC Board of Regents’ Committee on Grounds and Buildings of an amendment to its development plan that will allow more rapid and cost-efficient construction of campus facilities through 2020. (Full board approval is anticipated...

Computer Major Looks Forward to Job at Microsoft

May 15, 2013
  On his first tour of UC Merced almost five years ago, Andy Luhrs decided the campus was the right place for him. “The tour guide made an impression,” said Luhrs, who is from Danville. “Everyone I met had a good vibe — open and passionate about the school.” As he heads towards graduation on May 18...

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