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New Student Orientation Debuts in Bakersfield

July 18, 2005
The UC Merced Center in Bakersfield was abuzz with activity and energy as the campus hosted its very first New Student Orientation on Saturday, July 9, for 230 participants, including more than 100 incoming freshman and transfer students. Hailing from Shasta in the north of California to Chula...

Matt Meyer Crosses Lines, Aims for Targeted Drugs With Fewer Side Effects

July 18, 2005
Matthew Meyer’s educational background incorporates math, physics, chemistry and biology. He uses all those disciplines in his research, working to develop targeted pharmaceuticals for problems like asthma, arthritis and even cancer. “Most drugs work by binding specific receptors or enzymes in the...

Researchers Tap Technology for Accurate Snow Measurement, Forecasting

July 15, 2005
UC Merced professor Roger Bales’ research team is using wireless sensor pods to make more accurate measurements of snow depth and density. They hope to apply what they learn to help forecasters make more accurate predictions, helping communities better understand water supply.

UC Merced Receives Full Funding in Final 2005-06 State Budget

July 11, 2005
The 2005-06 state budget signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today (July11) fulfills his “compact” with the University of California, ending four years of budget cuts with increases for student enrollment growth, faculty and staff compensation, the opening of UC Merced, and an initiative to...

Hometown University Unlocks Doors for David Thatcher

July 5, 2005
Looking out his bedroom window a mile from campus, incoming freshman David Thatcher has watched UC Merced’s buildings rise in the last two years. But he’s had his eye on the tenth campus in the UC system for a lot longer than that. When Thatcher moved with his family to Merced in 1997, he was only...

A Dotted Line Comes Full Circle for Professor Teenie Matlock

June 24, 2005
When Teenie Matlock was a child in nearby Mariposa, she listened to deer-hunting stories told by her paternal grandfather, who was part Sierra Miwok. She remembers him drawing symbols in the dirt as he spoke. For example, a dotted line represented a trail or route, and an x represented a person or...

Fresh Choices Characterize Campus Dining

June 24, 2005
Students, faculty and staff at UC Merced will be treated daily to nutritious, tempting, restaurant-quality choices at the Valley Dining Commons, the main dining center on campus. On any given day, they can choose the;crunch cereal bar with assorted toppings, sandwiches on freshly baked bread, or a...

UC, Calif. Community Colleges Partner to Support Community Colleges Through Professional Development, Leadership Training and Research

June 23, 2005
UC contact: Ravi Poorsina (510) 587-6194ravi.poorsina@ucop.edu CCC contact: Ron Owens (916) 327-5356rowens@cccco.eduThe University of California and the California Community Colleges are forming a new collaborative program that will provide professional development, leadership training and...

UC Merced Professor Receives Prop. 99 Grant Money to Study Tobacco Effects

June 20, 2005
MERCED - In 1988, California voters approved Proposition 99, an initiative specifying that five percent of cigarette tax revenue be appropriated for research on tobacco-related disease. UC Merced professor Henry Jay Forman is now bringing $420,000 of that money to Merced to study how human...

Master of a Miniature World: Staffer Combines Interests to Create Lifelike Models

June 20, 2005
Readers may not have recognized them, but construction machines from the UC Merced campus site appeared in the April 2005 issue of Model Magazine to show how hard work in hard conditions can affect heavy machinery. “People who build models of heavy equipment or other vehicles want to make them...

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