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Tips for New Students from Last Year's Inaugural Class

August 22, 2006
Students who completed the opening year at UC Merced last year found it wasn’t easy, but it sure was a lot of fun being the inaugural class at a new university. Now that the foundation has been set, it’s time for another new class to take the spotlight and continue to build the campus environment...

UC Merced, West Hills College share grant for college preparation

August 22, 2006
MERCED - In each of the next five years, the University of California, Merced, and West Hills College Coalinga will each receive $325,000 to help improve the college-going rate of Central Valley students. UC Merced will work in partnership with West Hills College Coalinga, and share a $3.25...

New Freshman Relishes Opportunities During UC Merced's Second Year

August 22, 2006
Chris Ayala remembers playing golf with his father on what is now the UC Merced campus. “I look out and can sometimes tell where a hole used to be,” he said. This fall, Ayala will “tee off” as one of UC Merced’s incoming freshmen. But just because the putting green and golf carts have been...

UC Merced Professor's Research Could Rewrite History

August 18, 2006
MERCED - Combine an obscure, centuries-old work of literature, an international hunt for documents long thought lost and a race to reveal information and what do you get? It’s not the next “DaVinci Code,” but the research Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez has been doing could rewrite portions of American...

UC Merced Fundraising Hits a High Note

August 11, 2006
UC Merced Fundraising Goes Beyond ExpectationsGifts top $19 million for the yearMERCED – The University of California, Merced, raised $19.6 million this fiscal year – quadruple last year’s total.Included in this year’s donations:* $5 million from United Health Foundation to develop medical-...

Grad Student Brings First CIRM Stem Cell Funds to UC Merced

August 8, 2006
When Dean of Natural Sciences Maria Pallavicini applied as a co-investigator on a UC Davis proposal to the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, or CIRM - the state board which awards funds from the November 2004 measure that appropriated monies for stem cell research in California - she...

What Do Your Tunes Say About You? First Music Professor Takes a Closer Look

August 8, 2006
There’s a lot more to the study of music than whether a song has a good beat and you can dance to it. “I use music as a way of thinking about identity,” said Professor Kevin Fellezs, who’s starting to teach here this fall. “We’ll talk about how music helps us form and shape our identities and...

UC Merced Reiterates Commitment to Extensive Mitigation Measures While Balancing Central Valley’s Need for Expanded Access to Higher Education

July 29, 2006
MERCED, CA - The University of California, Merced said today (July 29) it remains optimistic that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will issue the federal permit it needs for next-phase development of its 910-acre campus and a contiguous university community. The university issued the statement...

Lisa Perry Runs Helpful One-stop Info Shop in Students First Center

July 28, 2006
When Lisa Perry started working in the Students First Center last summer, she wore a hard hat and had to push aside a large, plastic sheet to find her computer. This year, the center is fully functional, helping students with financial aid, admissions and registration questions and forms, campus...

Your Side of the UC Merced Story: UC Merced Memories Oral History Project

July 28, 2006
The official history of UC Merced will be kept by campus administrators and archivists. But Michelle Jacobs of the UC Merced Library staff had a feeling that students, faculty and staff had fascinating stories of their own to tell. She’s capturing those stories through the UC Merced Oral History...

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