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De Acker Named Staff Advisor-Designate to the Regents

June 4, 2014
Campus Ombuds Deidre “De” Acker has been appointed Staff Advisor-designate for 2014-16, UC President Janet Napolitano announced this week. Acker joins Donna Coyne of UC Santa Barbara, the 2013-15 staff advisor, after a systemwide search. Coyne will be the Staff Advisor, replacing Kathy Barton of UC...

Scholarship Helps UC Merced Senior Expand Her Worldview

June 2, 2014
Patricia Leslie is the first in her family to attend college. And the UC Merced senior is making the most of it, both on campus and beyond. Leslie is studying abroad in Córdoba, a small city located in the Andalusian region of southern Spain. The experience has helped her not only with her language...

Project to Bring Attention to Overlooked American Artists

May 27, 2014
For the past several years, art history Professor ShiPu Wang has been on a detective mission to find every work produced by a group of overlooked artists from the early 20th century. Wang has reviewed copious primary source documents, pursued private collectors and family estates, and visited...

Class of 2014 Bids Farewell, Begins Next Chapter

May 19, 2014
At two weekend ceremonies, UC Merced conferred degrees on more than 1,000 commencement candidates who said goodbye to the campus they called home for the past four or more years of their lives. Before receiving their diplomas, members of the Class of 2014 – from as far away as Russia and China –...

New Center Seeks Better Ways to Communicate Climate Issues

May 19, 2014
Climate change is creating two problems. One is understanding and addressing its impact on the world. The other is convincing large swaths of the public that it is, in fact, a reality. In an effort to spur people to take action to prevent ecological disaster, researchers with the new UC Merced...

Senior Balances Athletics, Academics With Agility

May 14, 2014
Growing up in Bangkok, Surabordin Prachumsri knew what he wanted to do at an early age. Now in his final year at UC Merced, that hasn’t changed for the 22-year-old. “My mom is an anthropologist, and I always liked science as a kid,” said Prachumsri, who goes by “Ai.” “It’s one of the things I’m...

Spring Issue of UC Merced Magazine Available Now

May 12, 2014
University Communications announces the online release of the Spring issue of UC Merced Magazine. In an effort to keep campus supporters in the Central Valley aware of UC Merced’s research, faculty, students and development, University Communications launched UC Merced Magazine. The print version...

Student Commencement Speakers Blaze Paths as Campus Leaders

May 12, 2014
Students Jamie Sweet and Vanessa Estavillo have much more in common than a love of UC Merced, a legacy of leadership and being members of the Class of 2014. These two women have been chosen to speak at their respective schools’ commencement ceremonies. Sweet, an environmental engineering major from...

Innovate to Grow Competition Highlights Student Creativity

May 12, 2014
MERCED, Calif. — From disposable drones mapping wildfire perimeters to increasing the number of young students interested in science, technology, engineering and math studies, this year’s engineering capstone and Innovate to Grow teams have real, impactful work to show off. The annual Innovate to...

NSF Early Career Award Honors Professor’s Research and Potential

May 9, 2014
The National Science Foundation is honoring UC Merced Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe with a Faculty Early Career Development Award to support her examination of how soil helps regulate the climate. The awards are given to junior faculty members who “who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars...

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