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Campus Receives National Award for Educational Programming

January 20, 2012
The University of California, Merced, has been awarded the 2012 Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Award for Outstanding Institutional Practice in Student Learning Outcomes. “The CHEA award affirms UC Merced’s mission as a student-centered research university by formally recognizing...

Researchers' Refinement Increases Solar Concentrator Efficiency

January 19, 2012
A team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has redesigned luminescent solar concentrators to be more efficient at sending sunlight to solar cells. The advancement could be an important breakthrough for solar energy harvesting, said UC Merced physics Professor Sayantani Ghosh,...

Dean Charts Vision for Natural Sciences

January 18, 2012
Dean of Natural Sciences Juan Meza began his tenure at UC Merced in September, and he wasted no time in meeting with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff to learn about the areas where the school is doing well and look for places to improve. Meza studied at Rice University, where...

Campus Sees Another Increase in Applications

January 12, 2012
The University of California, Merced, continues to see growing interest from prospective students, as witnessed by a 9.9 percent rise in applications over the 2011 academic year according to data released today by the UC Office of the President. UC Merced received 15,054 undergraduate applications...

Poli Sci Graduate Discipline to Debut in Fall

January 10, 2012
Graduate students interested in studying at UC Merced will have one more discipline to pursue this fall. The political science group will launch its doctoral degree track within the Social and Cognitive Sciences graduate emphasis in August. The deadline to apply as a graduate student at UC Merced...

UC Merced and Fresno Unified Leverage Resources to Increase Rate of Valley Grads Going to College

January 10, 2012
The Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) at the University of California, Merced, has teamed up with the Fresno Unified School District to support an important mission — helping more high school students graduate and get accepted to college.  Through a unique partnership, full-time...

Graduate Student at Home with Mountain Water Research

January 6, 2012
Peter Kirchner may have been born in California’s San Fernando Valley, but his heart and mind have always been close to the mountains. Much of his life has been spent living in Mono County, where he worked at a wilderness scout camp at age 15. In the mid-1990s, he was a training officer for the...

Students Benefit from Professor's Costume Design Expertise

January 3, 2012
Dunya Ramicova's costume designs have enchanted audiences for decades, but some of her biggest fans now sit in UC Merced classrooms. Ramicova, the university's first arts professor and one of its founding faculty members, also is an acclaimed costume designer. Last year, she worked on four projects...

Campus Fulfilling Mission to Give Back

December 23, 2011
From spearheading canned food drives to collecting toys for underprivileged children, UC Merced students, staff and faculty are giving back this holiday season. A group of UC Merced students spent the week before Thanksgiving collecting canned food for local needy families. About 30 Kappa Sigma...

Grant Benefits Valley High School Students

December 22, 2011
Students from eight San Joaquin Valley high schools are getting extra assistance in preparing for college, thanks to a federal grant received by the Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) at the University of California, Merced. The center has been awarded grants totaling more than $3.4 million...

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