UC Merced graduate students Anabel Castillo, Veronica Lerma and Sammy Villa are recipients of the University of California’s inaugural President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship (PPPF).
The UC Office of the President launched the PPPF as part of its UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions...
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Throughout his 51-year teaching career, John Elia made a profound impact on the lives of more than 10,000 students. Now, his legacy will continue through an endowment created by his family.
A generous gift from the John Elia Education Endowment Trust...
For Melissa Ugaldes and many San Joaquin Valley high school students like her, a University of California education might not be an obvious option. That’s why leaders from UC Merced visited Madera South High School on Tuesday to speak to 11th- and 12th-...
The University of California today (Sept. 18) began Promise for Education, a six-week crowd-funding campaign to engage students, faculty, alumni, celebrities, businesses, politicians and supporters in a novel drive to raise money for UC student ...
Two UC Merced undergraduates will spend the summer immersed in research after winning prestigious fellowships from the American Physiological Society.
Sophomores Debby Lee and Meagan Moreno competed on a national level for the 10-week, $4,000...
Born in central Mexico, the sea has long fascinated graduate student Jose Pablo Vazquez-Medina.
Now, he’s hoping to figure out some of its secrets.
Vazquez-Medina this year earned his doctorate in Quantitative and Systems Biology from UC Merced’s...
Graduate student Kaitlin Lubetkin and several sure-footed assistants spent much of the summer in Yosemite National Park.
Her frequent hiking companions were Toronado and Bravo — llamas who shouldered up to 100 pounds of equipment. The pack animals were...
Catalina Hernandez, UC Merced’s first Human Rights Center fellow, is spending this summer exploring how women decide to seek help from a midwife for childbirth instead of an obstetrician.
A proponent of midwifery, Hernandez said allowing women to choose...
UC Merced senior Jesse Anaya answered his phone one day to hear an unfamiliar voice ask, “Are you ready to change the world?”
“Yes,” he replied. “Now, who is this?”
A representative from the Harvard Latino Leadership Program told the Modesto native that...
Dozens of students at the University of California, Merced, will be able to research new ways of increasing energy efficiency and protecting our environmental resources thanks to a $250,000 gift to the campus from Southern California Edison (SCE)....
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