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UC Merced's Impact Growing Rapidly as New Academic Year Begins

August 25, 2011
With student enrollment expected to top the 5,000 mark this fall, faculty research projects winning major new grants and making national headlines, and intercollegiate athletics about to begin, the University of California, Merced, officially begins its seventh academic year today with rising...

Impact: Creating More Realistic Virtual Reality Avatars

August 22, 2011
http://youtu.be/bWfh28B-hv0 UC Merced's computer graphics lab, with body sensors, motion-capture cameras, and a giant movie screen is straight out of Hollywood. But instead of producing blockbusters, a group of UC Merced researchers are working to create more realistic human motions for virtual...

New Alumni Director Working on Building Connections

August 19, 2011
Although she’s the only full-time UC Merced staff member focused on alumni, Heather Buckner says the Alumni Affairs Office is definitely not about her. “Alumni should feel a connection to the university, not to me,” she said. Buckner said UC Merced alumni know the value of their degrees is directly...

Researchers Assist IBM in Cognitive Computer Chip Design

August 18, 2011
A team of researchers led by IBM, including a pair of professors from the University of California, Merced, unveiled today a new generation of experimental computer chips designed to emulate the brain's abilities for perception, action and cognition. The result could be processors that use much...

Stanford Runner, Researcher Ready for Next Step

August 15, 2011
Spencer Castro is moving from one of the nation's most established research universities and most successful athletics programs to one building its reputation in both regards. He's also coming home, or close to it. Castro, 22, who was born and raised in the Yosemite foothills northeast of Merced...

Research Gets to the Root of California's Water Cycle

August 10, 2011
In a remarkable outdoor laboratory in the Sierra, a team of researchers led by UC Merced hydrologist Roger Bales is using sensors to gather a mother lode of data to greatly improve ecological measurement and hydrologic forecasting. What winter brings to the Sierra Nevada determines, more than...

Study Builds on Plausible Scenario for Origin of Life on Earth

August 9, 2011
A relatively simple combination of naturally occurring sugars and amino acids offers a plausible route to the building blocks of life, according to a paper published in Nature Chemistry co-authored by a professor at the University of California, Merced. The study, “A Route to Enantiopure RNA...

Tulare County Valedictorians Continue Friendship, Academic Dreams

August 5, 2011
Stephanie Ruiz and Marisela Torres have been friends since seventh grade, and they share dreams that include college degrees and teaching careers. So it’s no surprise that these Tulare County valedictorians have something else in common: UC Merced. Ruiz, 17, and Torres, 18, will be freshmen, math...

Impact: Medical Education Program to Serve Valley

July 29, 2011
</p> <p>Fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Kelly Fujikawa always planned to practice medicine in the San Joaquin Valley.</p> <p>The UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education will help her do just that.</p...

Police Mentor Program Steers Youngsters Toward College

July 29, 2011
Uriel Bravo is about to become a freshman at Merced High School, but he's already thinking about college — thanks partly to the encouragement of a UC Merced program. “I really want to go to college,” he said. “I know if I don't go, I won't find a good-paying job.” Uriel, 14, is one of the hundreds...

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