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Research Week Highlights Cutting-Edge Work

February 20, 2013
Researchers at the university in your backyard are delving into issues of great importance to the San Joaquin Valley, the state, the nation and the world. You can learn more about their work at the eighth annual UC Merced Research Week, from March 4 through 8, on campus and in downtown Merced....

MESA Lab’s Unmanned Planes Could Be Game Changers for Many

February 19, 2013
Peek in the windows at the Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab sometime. You’ll probably see students flying small remote-controlled vehicles at all hours of the day and night. Sometimes the students are having so much fun they have to be pushed to go home and sleep. But what...

Graduate Student Bringing UC Merced to Western Pacific

February 13, 2013
Graduate student Sharon Patris likes spending time at a lake in the middle of the forest on an uninhabited island in the western Pacific. The marine lake named Ongiem’l Tketau and informally known as Jellyfish Lake, is home to the golden jellyfish, a species Patris studies as part of her work with...

UC Merced Women's Volleyball: Where Greatness Begins

February 12, 2013

Professor’s Paper, Among Year’s Best, Shows Dramatic Effects of Mountaintop Mining on Climate

February 11, 2013
UC Merced School of Engineering Professor Elliott Campbell has co-authored a paper showing that mountaintop removal mining will dramatically accelerate the regional effects of global warming by turning natural carbon sinks into sources of carbon emissions, some within the next 15 years. On top of...

Professor’s Design Could Win $50,000 Grant

February 6, 2013
A UC Merced professor is one of five finalists in an international challenge that could win him a $50,000 research grant and free access to a record-setting, ocean-going robot. Professor Michael Beman, with the School of Natural Sciences, entered the PacX Challenge, a competition designed to...

UC Merced’s Sustainability Practices Include the Whole Campus Community

February 4, 2013
  Sometimes, what goes on behind the scenes is as important as what happens in full view – especially when it comes to UC Merced’s pledge to uphold and develop new sustainable practices. All across the campus, sustainability is on the minds of hundreds of staff members who, every day, push the...

UC Merced Honors PG&E with Inaugural Vanguard Award

January 31, 2013
MERCED, Calif. — UC Merced honored the Pacific Gas and Electric Company with the School of Engineering’s inaugural Vanguard Award today with a special ceremony to thank the company for all it has done for engineering students. “PG&E is honored to receive the inaugural Vanguard Award from UC...

Campus Hosts Play that Tells Stories of Physical, Sexual Abuse

January 30, 2013
A powerful one-woman play that explores the troubling world of physical and sexual abuse debuts Feb. 23 as part of Arts UC Merced Presents. “Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men,” written and performed by actress/poet/playwright Dael Orlandersmith, tells the often difficult and uncomfortable stories of six...

New Energy Manager’s Big Plans Require Small Steps

January 28, 2013
  As UC Merced’s new energy manager, it’s Varick Erickson’s job to watch every kilowatt hour used on campus and identify ways to save them. “It’s a lot like rummaging around in the couch and looking for change,” Erickson said. Except the spare kilowatt hours he finds could save the campus hundreds...

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