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Students Spend Summer Researching Alongside Professors

September 9, 2011
As a child, Sarah Sanders was fascinated by how some of her bilingual classmates needed to translate conversations for their parents. Called language brokering, the practice often resulted in her classmates being pulled into an adult world at an early age. After enrolling at UC Merced and being...

Reflections from Chancellor Leland on Sept. 11

September 9, 2011
Dear Campus Community Members, As the 10th anniversary of the September 11 tragedy approaches, I hope you will join me in taking time to reflect on both the lives lost on that fateful day and where we stand as a global community a decade later. In a university setting where the free exchange of...

Yale's World-Renowned Singing Group to Perform on Campus

September 8, 2011
The Whiffenpoofs, Yale University’s world-famous a cappella singing group, will make history when it performs this fall at the University of California, Merced. It will be the group’s first visit to the San Joaquin Valley, and their first performance at any UC campus. “This is an exciting event for...

UCSF, UC Merced to Study Effectiveness of Anti-Tobacco Programs

September 7, 2011
Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco, and UC Merced will examine the effectiveness of state and local antismoking programs across the United States in an effort to make sure health authorities are able to use their increasingly limited resources to support and defend the...

Impact: Engineers Building Sustainable Solutions

September 6, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thl53DGexFk UC Merced graduate student Brandi McKuin recently returned from a trip to India, where she spent time studying the energy needs of rural villages that have been told by their government that they’ll never get electricity. Her work was part of a larger...

Student Bridges Generation Gap, Finds Acceptance and Fulfillment

September 2, 2011
David Brantley isn’t a typical UC Merced student. He’s older by a few decades. He’s already built a career as a professional photographer. And he’s the patriarch of three generations of Brantleys on campus. Brantley’s son, also named David, is a fellow UC Merced student. And his 3-month-old...

Professor Discovers Mechanism Behind Bacteria’s Biological Clock

August 30, 2011
A discovery by a professor at the University of California, Merced, is providing a deeper understanding of the factors that control biological clocks.    Biochemistry Professor Andy LiWang and his research team found how three proteins interact to drive the circadian rhythm of cyanobacteria, which...

Campus Adds 18 Faculty Members

August 26, 2011
The University of California, Merced, has eighteen new faculty members this year, giving the campus 144 ladder-rank professors and 120 lecturers. The new faculty members and their areas of concentration are: Katherine Steele Brokaw, English language and literature, School of Social Sciences,...

Boxer the First Senator to Visit UC Merced

August 26, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onhhjB1ixYA UC Merced received its first visit by a U.S. senator Wednesday, as Sen. Barbara Boxer met with Chancellor Dorothy Leland, learned about the work of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI), interacted with faculty and student researchers and spoke to a...

UC Merced's Impact Growing Rapidly as New Academic Year Begins

August 25, 2011
With student enrollment expected to top the 5,000 mark this fall, faculty research projects winning major new grants and making national headlines, and intercollegiate athletics about to begin, the University of California, Merced, officially begins its seventh academic year today with rising...

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