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Provost, Professor Appointed to President’s Environmental Council

July 21, 2014
UC Merced Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Tom Peterson and founding faculty member Professor Roger Bales have been named members of UC President Janet Napolitano’s new Global Climate Leadership Council. The council has been convened to guide UC sustainability efforts, with the goal of...

FAA Approves Data Drone Research at UC Merced

July 14, 2014
Other UC campuses have drone research programs, but UC Merced might be the only one with two certificates of authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing students to fly autonomous, unmanned systems at higher altitudes and, possibly, in locations they haven’t flown before. As...

Professor Discovers Key Elements for Biofilm Spreading

July 7, 2014
A biology professor at the University of California, Merced, discovered mechanisms that allow a potentially fatal biofilm to spread and resist drugs. The research was published last month in mBio, an open-access online journal by the American Society for Microbiology. Professor Clarissa J. Nobile,...

Campus Purchasing Land in Downtown Merced for 2020 Project

June 30, 2014
UC Merced is the top bidder for a piece of publicly auctioned land in downtown Merced that will likely serve as the site of a building for staff members, a significant step forward in the campus’s 2020 Project, designed to accelerate campus growth. The campus is also working with the City of Merced...

Facilities Management Seeks Campus’s Help in Attaining Sustainable Certifications

June 30, 2014
UC Merced is one of the greenest campuses in the nation, with 100 percent of its new construction having earned LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Those certifications have been earned on the basis of building construction practices, such as integrating recycled materials and...

Big-Data Project Nets Professor a Big Award

June 23, 2014
Professor Florin Rusu’s passion for analyzing voluminous amounts of data has won him a prestigious early-career award from the federal Department of Energy, making him the fifth of the nine eligible faculty members in the computer science and engineering group to earn the honor, and the first one...

Book Explores Tea Party's Rise, Dynamics

June 16, 2014
There’s a tendency for researchers to only study leftist movements, but a new book co-edited by UC Merced sociology Professor Nella Van Dyke analyzes the Tea Party movement. “We need to understand them, too. They have different dynamics,” Van Dyke said. “It appeared so suddenly and exploded onto...

UC Cooperative Extension Positions to Connect Research, Community

June 11, 2014
Two UC Cooperative Extension specialists are being deployed to UC Merced to take advantage of its location at the center of California agriculture and build on ongoing research into agriculturally significant matters related to climate, food security and nutrition. The two UCCE specialists, from...

Southern California Edison Earns Engineering Vanguard Award

June 9, 2014
Southern California Edison has been selected as this year’s recipient of the UC Merced School of Engineering Vanguard Margin of Excellence Award. “Southern California Energy’s partnership with UC Merced has created countless opportunities for engineering students to positively impact their...

De Acker Named Staff Advisor-Designate to the Regents

June 4, 2014
Campus Ombuds Deidre “De” Acker has been appointed Staff Advisor-designate for 2014-16, UC President Janet Napolitano announced this week. Acker joins Donna Coyne of UC Santa Barbara, the 2013-15 staff advisor, after a systemwide search. Coyne will be the Staff Advisor, replacing Kathy Barton of UC...

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