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State Budget Shortfall Forces Second Fee Increase for Fall 2011

July 15, 2011
The University of California Board of Regents today (July 14) approved a plan to close a $1 billion budget shortfall through a combination of higher student tuition, cost-cutting measures and operational efficiencies. Regents, on a 14-4 vote, reluctantly approved a 9.6 percent tuition increase,...

Engineering Service Learning Links Students with Community

July 13, 2011
Mix up a few buckets of goo, and what do you have? A messy and fun science lesson for local schoolchildren — courtesy of UC Merced students who help the community through an innovative engineering service learning program. The UC Merced students who offer the gooey “Oobleck” lesson are part of...

Inaugural Varsity Sports Schedules Released

July 12, 2011
Men's basketball team travels to face two-time WCC champion Santa Clara on Nov. 11; Women's volleyball to host first UC Merced home contest in any sport on Sept. 22 Quick Facts UC Merced released 2011-12 schedules for men's basketball and women's volleyball, two of the four sports teams...

Cap-and-Trade Trumps Carbon Taxes for Clean Tech Adoption

July 7, 2011
A cap-and-trade system is more likely than a carbon tax system to trigger the adoption of clean energy technologies, according to a study by Professor Yihsu Chen at the University of California, Merced. The study — coauthored by Chung-Li Tseng of the University of New South Wales in Australia and...

Student Demand for UC Merced Reaches New Heights

June 30, 2011
More than 1,800 new students plan to enroll, a 6 percent increase from last year Quick Facts UC Merced received Statements of Intent to Register from more than 1,800 freshmen, a 6 percent increase over last year. The freshman class will be the largest ever at the newest UC campus. Total...

Political Science Students Experience Legislative Process

June 30, 2011
UC Merced students took to the floor of the California Senate last week, sitting in the seats of the legislators they have portrayed all summer as a part of their Government in Action course. The students considered bills on high-speed rail, medical care and transportation. The summer session...

Global Sustainable Engineering Network to Move to UC Merced

June 28, 2011
The University of California, Merced, will become the new headquarters of Engineers for a Sustainable World effective July 1, the university announced today. Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) is a fast-growing, global nonprofit network of about 4,000 students, faculty and professionals...

Study: Urban Rail Reduces Carbon Monoxide Air Pollution

June 27, 2011
The opening of a major urban rail system in Taiwan caused a meaningful reduction in air pollution, according to a forthcoming study by two professors at the University of California, Merced. “Despite the importance of the transportation sector for air pollution, little work has examined the air...

Human Rights a Passion for Literature Professor

June 24, 2011
Just after graduating college in 1995, Nigel Hatton showed up for the first day of his journalism internship with the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. That afternoon, he was assigned to go with a couple more seasoned reporters to an execution. The shock of going to the execution contrasted...

Homegrown Alum Earns Law Degree

June 17, 2011
Ann Hinesley-Perez's original academic plans didn't involve law school — or even UC Merced. Hinesley-Perez was born and raised in Merced, but with UC Merced still in development, she left town in 2003 to pursue a psychology degree at UC Berkeley. But after the new campus opened in 2005, she...

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