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Bright Ideas Shine in EPICS Program

December 17, 2009
There’s nothing like a little friendly competition to help students get their creative juices flowing.Each semester, students in theFoster Family Center for Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)program at UC Merced work on projects for local non-profit organizations. In doing so, they...

Engineer Brings Expertise in Heat Transfer

December 17, 2009
ProfessorMichael Modestuses a simple analogy when explaining the concept of radiative heat transfer, his primaryresearchinterest. “When you’re sitting in front of a fireplace and you feel the warmth of the fire, that is a form of radiative heat transfer,” he explained. “Heat can be transferred by...

Center Funds Collaborative Research in Science, Math

December 11, 2009
UC Merced graduate student Jane HyoJin Lee is studying what happens to cells when they’re exposed to an electric field, part of an effort to create more treatments for diseases such as cancer. Her research, in conjunction with a graduate student and a professor at University of Southern California...

Database Project Leads Stanford to Hire UC Merced Graduate Student

December 11, 2009
Two years of coding a computer database paid off for graduate student Elijah Meeks when the finished project landed him a job at Stanford University. Meeks paired his knowledge of history with a deep understanding of computer language to create ”The Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty,” a...

Center Funds Collaborative Research in Science, Math

December 11, 2009
UC Mercedgraduatestudent Jane HyoJin Lee is studying what happens to cells when they’re exposed to an electric field, part of an effort to create more treatments for diseases such as cancer. Her research, in conjunction with a graduate student and a professor at University of Southern California,...

UC Center to Assess Education Initiatives

December 8, 2009
UC Merced will be among the seven University of California campuses studying the effectiveness of national, state and UC education initiatives. “California often spends billions of dollars on educational programs with little or no mandate to evaluate the effects of that investment,” UC Merced...

UC Merced Experience Eases Transition to Grad School for Alumna

December 3, 2009
When Jo-Anne Rodriguez said goodbye to UC Merced in May, she knew she was leaving a special place. “I didn’t go home, ever. I was on campus all day,” the2009 alumnafondly recalls. “I absolutely loved it, though, because UC Merced is a great school.” Now Rodriguez is in Baltimore, enrolled in the...

Students Collaborate to Commercialize Natural Daylight System

December 3, 2009
Converting the most abundant source of renewable energy - the sun - into electricity is relatively costly for wide-scale use. In an effort to make solar energy more efficient and cheaper to use, a group of UC Merced researchers have taken matters into their own hands. Under the guidance of UC...

Students Collaborate to Commercialize Natural Daylight System

December 3, 2009
Converting the most abundant source of renewable energy – the sun – into electricity is relatively costly for wide-scale use.   In an effort to make solar energy more efficient and cheaper to use, a group of UC Merced researchers have taken matters into their own hands.   Under the guidance of UC...

UC Merced Extends Undergraduate Admissions Deadline to Dec. 15

December 2, 2009
UC Merced application filing period for freshmen and transfer students for fall 2010 has been extended through December 15. Applications must be submitted online at universityofcalifornia.edu/applyby 11:59 p.m. on December 15 to be considered. For more information: admissions.ucmerced.edu.

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