Skip to content

News

Book Analyzes Chicano, Latino Film and Fiction in Los Angeles

January 28, 2011
UC Merced Professor Ignacio López-Calvo’s “Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety” will be published on Feb. 1 by the University of Arizona Press. López-Calvo’s fifth single-authored book deals with the imaging of Los Angeles in Latino literature and film...

Fashion Show Will Highlight UC Merced's Diversity, Assist Moms in Need

January 21, 2011
A group of female students at UC Merced are determined to show that their college home is more cosmopolitan than many others might think. And they're doing it through fashion, with a plan to benefit neighbors in need. The American Women Making a Difference club will host its first...

Stimulus-Funded Program to Improve Campus' Energy Efficiency

January 18, 2011
The University of California, Merced, will receive $600,000 in technical assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the Commercial Building Partnerships program, which is designed to accelerate the deployment of cost-effective, energy-saving measures in commercial buildings across the...

Campus Dedicates Site for Next Academic Building

January 14, 2011
MERCED — Leaders with the state and the University of California, Merced, today dedicated the site for the campus' fifth academic building, one that will expand the campus' research arm. The three-story Science and Engineering Building 2 will be built next to the existing Science and Engineering...

Student Applications to UC Merced Reach New Highs

January 14, 2011
Total enrollment for 2011-12 academic year likely to approach 5,000 students Quick Facts UC Merced has received more than 13,000 applications, a nearly 11 percent increase over last year. UC Merced's growth rates are among the highest in the 10-campus UC system, according to data released today...

Professors Launch Campus' First Journal of Literary and Cultural Criticism

January 14, 2011
Two UC Merced literature professors have launched the campus' first online literary journal through University of California's eScholarship.   Professors Ignacio López-Calvoand Cristián H. Ricciwill publish next semester the first edition of ” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural...

Proposed Budget Cuts $1.4B from Higher Education

January 11, 2011
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a balanced, deficit-closing 2011-12 state budget Monday (Jan. 10) that relies on painful cuts in state services including a $500 million reduction in support for the University of California. The 16.4 percent drop in state general fund support for UC would...

Alumnus Continues Connecting, Learning as Congressional Staffer in DC

January 7, 2011
Josh Franco ('07) is exactly where he planned to be. Every step leading to his current job as a senior legislative assistant for U.S. Congressman John Garamendi has been carefully taken by Franco with his gifts for connecting with others and for absorbing and sharing information in mind. And one...

Professor Using Wireless Sensor to Improve HVAC Efficiency

December 23, 2010
There is no factor in a building that uses up more energy at a greater cost than heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). Yet HVAC systems do not take advantage of technology that could make them much more efficient, according to a UC Merced engineering professor. Alberto Cerpa, whose...

Campus Gears Up for Year of Growth, Changes

December 22, 2010
A new chancellor, more students and additional buildings all on tap for 2011 as UC Merced heads into the second half of its sixth academic year In the coming year, the University of California, Merced, will appoint new leadership, open additional buildings, increase enrollment and hire more...

Pages