There was an undeniable feeling of optimism and excitement in January 2020, as the calendar turned to a new year at the University of California, Merced. The university would be welcoming its fourth chancellor in the summer, and celebrating its 15th anniversary and the opening of a slew of shiny...
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Zhijiang “Justin” Ye wasn’t expecting to attend the newest campus in the UC system.
He just wanted to work with Professor Ashlie Martini.
When Ye, then a student at University of Minnesota, connected with Martini and asked to join her research group, he...
Shrubs blooming in a specific area of Africa might hold the answers to feeding millions of people on that continent, and possibly others.
UC Merced Professor Teamrat Ghezzehei, his doctoral student, Nate Bogie, and researchers from Ohio State University...
Professor Arnold Kim’s music couldn’t be more different than that of student-staff-alumni band Feeling Gravity’s Pull.
Kim’s The Yellow Hope Project work is heavily influenced by what he has been listening to for years – old-school country, soul, blues...
UC Merced’s first NAIA women’s soccer team is going to have a short season – five home games and nine away games.
That’s by design.
New head coach Megan Atoigue said this is the time to set the foundation for the campus’s inaugural women’s soccer program...
Nine new members of this year’s UC Merced Women’s Volleyball team, from all around the Central Valley, are among the campus’s first group of recruited student athletes.
They began practice and play in early August, and already hosted their first...
UC Merced senior Patricia Paredes didn’t grow up in the best neighborhood or have the easiest childhood.
But she overcame those hardships to graduate from a San Jose high school and enroll at the University of California’s newest campus.
Now, Paredes...
The University of California, Merced, begins its eighth academic year today with record enrollment of approximately 5,600 students, a 23 percent increase in graduate-student enrollment and 26 newly hired faculty members to teach and conduct advanced...
http://youtu.be/AVZS22SFLVgGraduate student Alexandra Paxton finds opinionated students, puts them in a room together and tells them to argue about a hot-button issue.
Then she records what happens.
Paxton, who is earning her doctoral degree in cognitive...
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