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Founders Day Events Highlight Campus's First 10 Years

October 17, 2012
UC Merced will commemorate the 10th anniversary of its groundbreaking with a series of Founders Day events Oct. 25 through 27. Several events throughout the three-day celebration will recognize founding faculty and staff as well as honor founding Legacy Circle donors, University Committee of Merced...

High School Visit to Inspire Local Students to 'Achieve UC'

October 16, 2012
University of California, Merced, Chancellor Dorothy Leland will visit Merced High School Oct. 18 as part of Achieve UC, a systemwide initiative to show high school students how they can attain a University of California education. The idea behind the event is to inspire students to aim for college...

Professor Working to Stop Melanoma in its Tracks

October 15, 2012
Professor Fabian Filipp is trying to put up roadblocks. But instead of stopping cars, he’s trying to keep cancers from growing. Filipp, a systems biology professor who started at UC Merced this fall, studies the metabolic cycle of melanoma, which is the leading cause of death from skin cancers. “We...

UC Merced Faculty Opinion in Journal Science

October 11, 2012
Professor Mónica Medina started out as the only marine biologist in a National Science Foundation workshop last year, but she ended up with a group of new partners and an opinion piece in the prestigious journal Science that’s being released today. Through discussions with colleagues from many...

Campus Research Investment Hits New High

October 11, 2012
Research is the hallmark of the University of California, which develops more patents than any other university in the nation. And as the system’s newest campus, UC Merced is continuing to conduct cutting-edge research. According to numbers released today (Oct. 11) by the campus’s Business and...

Campus Grows Valley Investment, Boosting Area's Economic Strength

October 9, 2012
With evidence mounting that the San Joaquin Valley economy is finally gaining strength, the University of California, Merced, today announced that it continues to do its part, investing more than $165 million in the regional economy over the last 14 months. Total investment in the region now tops $...

Transfer Student Uses Sports, Academics to Inspire Local Youth

October 8, 2012
  At 33, Nick Navarrette isn’t the average UC Merced student. He’s not even the average transfer student. Then again, Navarrette has never been “average,” nor does he pretend to be. Maybe that’s why adversity doesn’t seem to faze him. The former UC Merced police officer was on top of the world when...

Lakireddy Gift Promotes Engineering and Entrepreneurship

October 4, 2012
MERCED, Calif. — A generous gift from a Valley family with long ties to UC Merced will give the campus a legacy fund that firmly establishes its leadership role in regional entrepreneurialism. The Dr. and Mrs. Vikram Lakireddy Innovation and Design Clinic Endowed Fund will also help transform...

Robotics Society Navigates Uncharted Courses

October 3, 2012
Sometimes, all you need is a little push, even if it comes from a mechanical arm. That was the case with the UC Merced Robotics Society, which began in 2008 but languished after its founders graduated. This past year, though, the club’s newer members got a jump start from dedicated leadership and...

Study Sheds Light on Bacterial Cell Division

October 1, 2012
Staph, e-coli, meningitis, MRSA and botulism are just a few of the thousands of bacterial infections that plague people all over the world. For example, almost 23,300 people in the United States were sickened by food-borne bacterial illnesses in 2008, according to the Centers for Disease Control....

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