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Engineering Professor Looks to Make an Impact

February 7, 2012
Professor Ashlie Martini was looking for the chance to make a difference when she took a post at UC Merced. Martini, now a professor in the UC Merced School of Engineering, was most recently a faculty member at Purdue University, home to about 40,000 students. But she wanted to work at a university...

National Geographic Film Chronicles Highland Research

February 7, 2012
Watch Full Episode on PBS. See more from Cave People of the Himalaya. Mark Aldenderfer, dean of UC Merced’s School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, is featured in a National Geographic documentary about his research into an ancient civilization in Nepal. The hourlong film, “Cave People of...

UC Research Resource Center to Serve San Joaquin Valley

February 6, 2012
An innovative community-university partnership to empower San Joaquin Valley residents to analyze and communicate their most pressing challenges launches in Fresno this month. The Participatory Action Research Resource Center (PARRC) will strengthen residents’ skills in using research to improve...

Major Construction Under Way at UC Merced

February 3, 2012
UC Merced is entering a significant new phase of construction, the likes of which the campus has not seen since before it opened in 2005. The construction projects will add nearly 270,000 gross square feet in the next two years, which will increase the campus’ physical space by about 25 percent....

Community-Engaged Research Serves San Joaquin Valley

January 30, 2012
About 180 people attended a conference at UC Merced that connected researchers with community members working to improve the lives of the San Joaquin Valley’s young people. The December conference, “Building Healthy Youth in Merced County: Community Engagement and Scholarship,...

Graduate Student Finds New Career in Military Research

January 27, 2012
As a chemistry teacher at Golden Valley High School in 2004, Scott Seronello frequently told his students to keep working at their education and never give up their dreams. Then his students asked why he hadn’t done that himself. So he applied to UC Merced to pursue his dream of earning a Ph.D.,...

Campus' Math Course Launches UC Online Program

January 24, 2012
A calculus course at UC Merced marks the first class to be offered through the University of California's online instruction project, with several more courses to be rolled out in early April. The program's inaugural course, which began Jan. 17, is a preparatory calculus class taught by instructors...

Computer Scientist Earns Prestigious Early-Career Research Award

January 23, 2012
Engineering Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang of the University of California, Merced, has been named a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to further his work on improving visual tracking abilities in machines. The award will provide Yang, a...

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,...

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