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Teach-in Educates Campus, Community on Climate Change

February 5, 2008
Students, faculty, staff and the local community gathered in UC Merced’s Bobcat Lair on Jan. 31 to learn from each other about just about every aspect of global climate change – from sea ice to protest songs. Eleven professors, including Chancellor Steve Kang, Dean Jeff Wright of the School of...

Darwin Day Lecture Feb. 15 at UC Merced by Antonio Lazcano

February 4, 2008
MERCED, CA— The Office of Research, the Division of Graduate Studies and the Core One course at the University of California, Merced, will sponsor a Feb. 15 lecture about the origins of life in celebration of the 199th birthday of Charles Darwin. Antonio Lazcano of the Universidad Nacional...

UC Merced Receives Record Number of Applicants for Fall 2008 Semester

January 29, 2008
Applications increase by 15.4 percent over previous year MERCED, CA— Interest in the University of California, Merced, continues to grow, according to application statistics released today by the UCOffice of the President. More than 10,000 students have applied to the UC’s newest campus, which...

19 New UC Merced Professors on Board to Teach Their Research

January 25, 2008
MERCED, CA— Freshmen and transfer students aren’t the only new faces on campus at the University of California, Merced, this fall. The three schools at the newest campus in the UC system are welcoming 19 new faculty members for the fall 2008 semester. The total number offaculty membersat UC...

Students, Professors Plan Climate Change Awareness Events for Jan. 31

January 24, 2008
MERCED, CA— Students and professors at the University of California, Merced, have organized a teach-in on global climate change that will take place Thursday, Jan. 31 on the newest UC campus. Based on a model fromFocus the Nation, the teach-in is aimed at creating awareness on campus and in the...

UC Merced Donations Increase by 82%

January 23, 2008
University raises $6.7M in first half of fiscal year MERCED, CA— Fundraising at the University of California, Merced, is up by 82 percent in the first six months of the 2007-08 fiscal year, according to university officials. From July 1 through Dec. 31, 2007, UC Merced and the UC Merced...

MSEFCU Endows Scholarship to Support UC Merced Students

January 22, 2008
MERCED, CA— In keeping with its commitment to education, Merced School Employees Federal Credit Union has donated $25,000 to start an endowed scholarship fund to benefit students at the University of California, Merced. “We know that even if students do well in high school, financial reasons may...

UC MEXUS Helps Ph.D. Student Collaborate on Coral Health

January 22, 2008
When it comes to studying how corals respond to increasing ocean temperatures as theclimate warms,the corals are just part the puzzle. If we don’t look at the algae that live in symbiosis with the corals, we’re really only seeing half of the picture, maybe less, saidPh.D. student Mickey DeSalvo....

Valley Native Making Her Mark in Stem Cell Engineering

January 22, 2008
When you think of a young woman who’s spent most of her life in the San Joaquin Valley, you might not picture a Ph.D.bioengineer. Fresno native Alicia Blancas is bound to change that. Blancas chose to study biology because she was inspired by an Advanced Placement teacher at Edison High School. A...

UC MEXUS Helps Ph.D. Student Collaborate on Coral Health

January 22, 2008
When it comes to studying how corals respond to increasing ocean temperatures as the climate warms, the corals are just part the puzzle. “If we don’t look at the algae that live in symbiosis with the corals, we’re really only seeing half of the picture, maybe less,” said Ph.D. student Mickey...

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