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New Provost Shares Vision for Campus

December 17, 2012
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Tom Peterson assumed his leadership role at UC Merced on Dec. 3 and has been meeting with various campus groups to learn more about the university. Before coming to campus, Peterson led the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF), a...

Professor Looks Inside Trees for Answers

December 12, 2012
Professor Carolin Frank is concerned with the inner lives of trees. She looks inside them to see whether microbes are part of – and perhaps even critical to – life functions such as growth. “It’s a pretty new field,” Frank said. “Most people think of bacteria as causing disease, but they can be...

Engineering Students Solving a Wild Problem

December 10, 2012
  Students with a variety of skills and perspectives make up a team that’s taking engineering principles into some of the area’s wildlands to further education and promote awareness about the environment. Candace Sigmond, education coordinator for the Grasslands Environmental Center and Los Banos...

Gaming Graphics Changing How Computational Science is Conducted

December 5, 2012
Professor Christine Isborn is doing quantum chemistry at the speed of graphics. Isborn is using the same graphics computer cards (graphical processing units, or  GPUs) that make your Playstation games so realistic and movie-like to turn her regular old computer into a superfast supercomputer...

Applying Creative Solutions to ‘Impossible’ Problems

December 3, 2012
The tougher a problem, the more creative a solution it needs, from the increasing power in orbiting satellites and saving tigers to saving state parks and catching thieves. And when a problem seems absolutely impossible? “That’s when you call me,” said Professor Erik Rolland. “I love modeling...

Internship Gives Undergrads Journal Experience

November 28, 2012
The undergraduate students in Professor Linda Hirst’s new internship course are getting an advanced education in science communications that could serve them well in their future careers. By condensing the latest scientific papers for Hirst’s Soft Matter World website, Science Writing interns...

UC Merced Researcher, Graduate Student, Contribute to Inventory of All Marine Life

November 27, 2012
Counting the number of species that live in the Earth’s oceans sounds as impossible as counting the grains of sand on a beach. But a global collaboration involving a UC Merced researcher and a graduate student is doing just that, and found that about a third of all the oceans’ species are still ...

Center Promotes Student Self-sufficiency

November 21, 2012
Students who visit the UC Merced Students First Center (SFC) in the lobby of the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library will see it’s different from other student services offices. For one thing, the computers can turn around to face students, letting them learn to accomplish unfamiliar tasks by doing...

Graduate Student Uses Llamas to Continue Research in Yosemite

November 19, 2012
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 critical to her continued research on conifer...

Campus Bunnies Still at Home Here

November 14, 2012
They sleep in secret, fuzzy beds and have questionable dietary habits. They prefer to be active in the evenings and early mornings. They are easily startled and can, if the situation calls for it, do some damage with their legs. They are not ninjas, nor are they the freshmen who live in the dorms....

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