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New Lecturer Brings Dino Expertise to Merced

September 7, 2007
Matt Wedel is a new lecturer at UC Merced this semester, but you won’t have any trouble distinguishing his office. “I’ll probably fill it up with bones,” said Wedel, whose main interest is paleontology. “I’m constantly accumulating them. Some I find on hikes, some I pull out of dead critters and...

Childcare Update: "Baby Bobcats" May Have Space on Campus Soon

September 7, 2007
In the next couple of years, UC Merced’s faculty, staff and student Bobcats will be able to keep their cubs nearby as they work and study. The pieces are falling into place for childcare on campus. A site near the campus entrance will house the facility - in front of the pump house, near Lake Road...

Excelling Student Gets Help from Gates Foundation

August 31, 2007
Not everyone can say Bill Gates came looking for them, but Salysia Perez can. As a senior in high school, she was recruited by the Gates Millennium Scholars program to apply for the group’s college scholarship. Now, three years later, she’s still receiving money each year to cover everything her...

UC Merced Meets World

August 31, 2007
If you notice a different vibe on campus this fall, it might just be the increased presence of global influences. You could even say this is the year UC Merced becomes an international campus. About 40 international students are on campus this semester under F-1 visa status.  These students hail...

14 New Professors Join UC Merced for Fall Semester

August 27, 2007
MERCED - When classes begin today (Aug. 27) at the University of California, Merced, students will notice some important new faces on campus. Fourteen new professors have joined the faculty lineup for the fall semester, bringing the total number to 91. “This round of faculty hiring adds...

Social Sciences and Management Building Groundbreaking Planned

August 24, 2007
At the beginning of its third year serving undergraduate students on campus, UC Merced is preparing for still more construction to start. Design approval came over the summer from the UC Regents for the next academic building, a three-story, $47.5 million expansion of the School of Social Sciences...

"Bones" Professor Finds Clues to Lives, Deaths in Skeletal Remains

August 24, 2007
Vicki Wedel might have been an amazing doctor, except for one minor problem.”The only patients I wanted to be around were the dead ones,” she said. That’s why she spends her time examining bones:  prehistoric bones, bones from Colonial America, and even more recent - but unidentified - skeletons...

Learn About Farmworker Life in "Living Under the Trees" Exhibit Beginning Sept. 4

August 22, 2007
The School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at UC Merced Presents “Living Under the Trees,” a photo documentary exhibition and associated events. David Bacon has documented the lives of Mexican indigenous farmworkers in California, and his photo documentary, “Living Under the Trees,” will...

UC Merced Research Awards Top $12 Million This Year

August 21, 2007
MERCED - Research grants and awards for the University of California, Merced’s 80 professors sharply increased this past fiscal year, with more than $12 million coming from a variety of sources for some of the state’s most cutting-edge research. A total of 76 awards, amounting to $12,208,232, came...

Staff Member Looks to the Global Future

August 17, 2007
Fatima Paul, the committee analyst at UC Merced, makes her home in the Central Valley, but she lives in a global world. Born in the French Alps, Paul finished her education at Montpelier with a master’s degree in English literature. She worked for the National Institutes for Health/National Cancer...

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