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Talk With Your Hands: UC Merced Will Host Gesture Symposium

April 10, 2008
MERCED - How do we gesture, and why? What is the role of gesture in everyday communication? How did gestures evolve in human language - before speech, or after? What areas of the brain are activated with gesture? Internationally renowned experts will discuss these and related questions at the...

Bobcat Day and More on April 19

April 9, 2008
MERCED - On Saturday, April 19, the University of California, Merced, will host Bobcat Day, an annual campus open house, in conjunction with the third annual Fairy Shrimp Festival and the “Third Ever UC Merced Family Art Show.” Students, prospective students and the general public are invited to...

Partnership Allows Public to Support Students While Also Taking in a Show at Gallo Arts Center

April 9, 2008
MERCED — A partnership between the University of California, Merced, and the Gallo Center for the Arts allows members of the community to support cultural and artistic experiences for students. The university will take a chartered bus of students and community members to see performances at the new...

Junior Ensures 'Happy Tails' for Shelter Animals

April 4, 2008
Anyone who thinks all cats are aloof never met Rocko, a 3-year-old Siamese mix that UC Merced junior Javad John Fatollahi adopted as a stray. When Fatollahi would come home after class, Rocko nuzzled and purred. The cat would scamper along behind Fatollahi when he went to the mailbox, just like a ...

Searching for Apnea Answers in Elephant Seal Pups

April 4, 2008
About 18 months into herPh.D.program at UC Merced, Julie Phillips has learned one thing for sure: Elephant seals are more entertaining than the Eastern fence lizards she worked with for her master’s thesis. “They’re pretty fat, and they just lie there and look at you,” she said. “It’s almost like...

Junior Ensures 'Happy Tails' for Shelter Animals

April 4, 2008
Anyone who thinks all cats are aloof never met Rocko, a 3-year-old Siamese mix that UC Merced junior Javad John Fatollahi adopted as a stray. When Fatollahi would come home after class, Rocko nuzzled and purred. The cat would scamper along behind Fatollahi when he went to the mailbox, just like a...

Professor Publishes Study on Polymers Moving Into a Crowded Cell

April 3, 2008
MERCED - When material needs to cross the membrane into a living cell, speed is critical. Fuel, chemical signals and genetic information must be delivered at the right time so that cells can perform essential functions like fighting off disease or producing new cells. The polymers, or long chains...

Young Faculty Award for Physics Professor May Help Close Quantum Computing Gaps

April 2, 2008
MERCED - In the last several years, scientists and engineers in different institutions have made progress on diverse pieces of research intended to advance the technology of quantum computing - providing approaches to solving certain complex problems more efficiently than possible using present...

Video - Long Range Development Plan

April 2, 2008
UC Merced’s Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) is getting ready to move into a new phase. In a series of planning workshops throughout the last several months, campus planners have gathered information about the ideas, desires and needs of students, faculty and staff. They have used this...

Mark G. Yudof appointed 19th University of California president

March 27, 2008
The University of California Board of Regents today (March 27) voted unanimously to appoint Mark G. Yudof, current head of the University of Texas system and a recognized leader in American higher education, the 19th president of the University of California. University of California Office of...

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