Students, faculty, staff and the local community gathered in UC Merced’s Bobcat Lair on Jan. 31 to learn from each other about just about every aspect of global climate change – from sea ice to protest songs.
Eleven professors, including Chancellor Steve Kang, Dean Jeff Wright of the School of...
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February 5, 2008
When she was a young girl, development officer Terisa Rose remembers her great grandfather, a visionary, talking about a new UC campus in the
Central Valley. When UC Merced became a reality, Rose knew she was destined to be a part of it.
Raised in Dos Palos, Rose has lived in the
San...
February 5, 2008
Students, faculty, staff and the local community gathered in UC Merced’s Bobcat Lair onJan. 31to learn from each other about just about every aspect of global climate change - from sea ice to protest songs.
Eleven professors, includingChancellor Steve Kang,Dean Jeff Wrightof theSchool of...
February 4, 2008
MERCED, CA— The Office of Research, the
Division of Graduate Studies and the Core One course at the
University of California, Merced, will sponsor a Feb. 15 lecture
about the origins of life in celebration of the 199th birthday of
Charles Darwin.
Antonio Lazcano of the Universidad Nacional...
January 29, 2008
Applications increase by 15.4 percent over previous year
MERCED, CA— Interest in the University of
California, Merced, continues to grow, according to application
statistics released today by the UCOffice of the
President.
More than 10,000 students have applied to the UC’s newest
campus, which...
January 25, 2008
MERCED, CA— Freshmen and transfer students
aren’t the only new faces on campus at the University of
California, Merced, this fall. The three schools at the newest
campus in the UC system are welcoming 19 new faculty members for
the fall 2008 semester. The total number offaculty membersat UC...
January 24, 2008
MERCED, CA— Students and professors at the
University of California, Merced, have organized a teach-in on
global climate change that will take place Thursday, Jan. 31 on the
newest UC campus. Based on a model fromFocus the Nation, the
teach-in is aimed at creating awareness on campus and in the...
January 23, 2008
University raises $6.7M in first half of fiscal year
MERCED, CA— Fundraising at the University of
California, Merced, is up by 82 percent in the first six months of
the 2007-08 fiscal year, according to university officials.
From July 1 through Dec. 31, 2007, UC Merced and the UC Merced...
January 22, 2008
When you think of a young woman who’s spent most of her life in the San Joaquin Valley, you might not picture a Ph.D.bioengineer.
Fresno native Alicia Blancas is bound to change that.
Blancas chose to study biology because she was inspired by an Advanced Placement teacher at Edison High School. A...
January 22, 2008
When it comes to studying how corals respond to increasing ocean temperatures as the climate warms, the corals are just part the puzzle.
“If we don’t look at the algae that live in symbiosis with the corals, we’re really only seeing half of the picture, maybe less,” said Ph.D. student Mickey...
