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New Grant Aids Underrepresented Students With Undeclared Majors

August 20, 2015
A new grant from the U.S. Department of Education will help the University of California, Merced, establish important support services for first-generation and low-income students who have yet to declare a major. The grant, totaling $1.09 million over five years, will launch the Strengthening...

The Conversation | Turning a page: downsizing the campus book collections

August 19, 2015
Deputy Librarian Donald Barclay writes about the uncertain future of academic libraries in the digital age.

The Guardian | Scientists get tool to mark online climate science media coverage

August 19, 2015
Researcher Emmanuel Vincent hopes his new tool will help bring more credibility to climate change reporting.

Student Examines Role of Gender in Perception of Political Scandals

August 19, 2015
With the 2016 presidential race already in full swing, political science graduate student Kayla Canelo’s research is particularly timely.  This spring and summer, Canelo designed and carried out a study that examines the effects of scandal on the public perception of political figures. Specifically...

Alumnus Takes Trailblazing Spirit to Washington

August 12, 2015
David Do sits in his office in Washington, D.C. — nearly 3,000 miles from UC Merced — reflecting on the path he’s cut for himself. Do, who now serves as director of the city’s Office of Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs under Mayor Muriel Bowser, has come a long way since being part of UC Merced’s...

Sustainability Ideas Lead to Award-Winning Proposal

August 10, 2015
Undergraduate student Andrew John De Los Santos wasn’t passionate about sustainability until he started sorting through trash as a recycling and composting intern at UC Merced last fall. While picking out recyclable and compostable material, De Los Santos began to realize the difference that one...

UC Merced Hosts Third Annual UndocuGrads Conference

August 5, 2015
More than 340 students, advocates, school representatives, and administrators were at UC Merced on Saturday for the third annual UndocuGrads Conference. The one-day event was designed to address the unique challenges faced by undocumented students — some of whom are covered by Deferred Action for...

Campus Continues to Set Precedents in Sustainability

August 3, 2015
UC Merced is the only university in the country to have all of its buildings certified under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. That body of work was honored at the spring conference of the group’s Central California chapter, where UC...

Video | Discover UC Merced: Don Edwards Forges a Legacy of Service

July 31, 2015
When Don Edwards joined the U.S. Marine Corps, he had no idea the skills he learned as a Marine would take him to the University of California’s newest campus – where he would create the Veteran Services Office so that other vets and dependents of veterans could have a single resource to assist...

Literature Professor Wins Latino Book Award

July 31, 2015
UC Merced Professor Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez recently won a 2015 International Latino Book Award for “With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readerships,” which beat six other finalists in the category of Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book. The book stems from research done after...

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