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UC Merced Students Light the Way with Senior Challenge Idea

January 23, 2009
When UC Merced students Heather Poiry and Anne Mahacek heard that campus administrators were looking for students to submit proposals for a Senior Challenge project, the duo stepped up to the plate to pitch a bright idea. Poiry and Mahacek, bothmechanical engineeringmajors andseniors, proposed to...

UC Proposal Calls for Providing Minimum Gift Aid for Lower-Income Students

January 22, 2009
To make the University of California’s financial aid programs more transparent for families and encourage more low-income students to apply, President Mark G. Yudof will bring to the next meeting of the Board of Regents a proposal that establishes a minimum level of gift assistance for financially...

Education, Entertainment on Tap for Spring

January 16, 2009
Spring has already sprung at UC Merced. The semester begins Jan. 20, and already, campus is abuzz with a bustling schedule. Lecture Series Brings Great Thinkers to Campus The Mind, Technology and Society Lecture Series has announced its spring schedule. Made possible by a generous gift from the...

Education, Entertainment on Tap for Spring

January 16, 2009
Spring has already sprung at UC Merced. The semester begins Jan. 20, and already, campus is abuzz with a bustling schedule. Lecture Series Brings Great Thinkers to CampusThe Mind, Technology and Society Lecture Series has announced its spring schedule. Made possible by a generous gift from the...

UC Professor Sweats the Small Stuff Studying Microbes

January 12, 2009
Carolin Frankrecalled one of her earliest exposures to the world of science. She was about 10 years old and lived in a rural area of Sweden. While she enjoyed reading comics and Pippi Longstocking books, there were other topics she found just as interesting, namely genetics and DNA. “My dad is a...

ASUCM President Proud to be a Bobcat

January 9, 2009
UC MercedseniorYaasha Sabbadidn’t plan to come to UC Merced, but thebiological sciencesmajor has made his mark since he first walked on campus as a freshman in 2005. When I first visited UC Merced, I had already committed to attending San Francisco State and had put down a deposit on an apartment...

ASUCM President Proud to be a Bobcat

January 9, 2009
UC Merced senior Yaasha Sabba didn’t plan to come to UC Merced, but the biological sciences major has made his mark since he first walked on campus as a freshman in 2005. “When I first visited UC Merced, I had already committed to attending San Francisco State and had put down a deposit on an...

Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Guarantee Funds for UC

January 6, 2009
MERCED, CA— Vowing to protect higher education funding, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed a bold proposal Wednesday (Jan. 6) to amend the state constitution to shift money from prisons to higher education. The amendment he introduced in his State of the State address would limit the state...

New Dean Ready to Lead Fastest-Growing School at UC Merced

January 6, 2009
Prestigious Archaeologist to Continue Research in Tibet, Emphasize Interdisciplinary Research Mark S. Aldenderfer has begun his appointment as dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, which is UC Merced’s fastest-growing division. MERCED, CA— Mark S. Aldenderfer has begun...

Researchers to Develop Brain-Based Computer Chip

December 19, 2008
Today’s most powerful computers can crunch numbers with a speed and precision that truly boggles the mind. But when it comes to the mind and its perceptual and mental capacities, even supercomputers pale in comparison. “Computers can guide a rocket to Mars and deploy rovers to transmit video data...

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