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UC Merced Supports Health Services, New Enclosure for Bobcat at Local Zoo

June 8, 2005
Four years ago, local elementary students chose the Golden Bobcat as UC Merced’s mascot. Today, a real live bobcat would like to be a part of UC Merced’s first class on opening day. A four-month-old cub was anonymously dumped at Merced’s Applegate Zoo a few weeks ago, where zoo workers found him...

Researchers Train Thai Professors on GLOBE Program

June 3, 2005
Professor Martha Conklin and postdoctoral researcher Sarah May visited Thailand after last year’s tsunami to train volunteers in the GLOBE program, which provides opportunities for students to participate in scientific research. Authorities in Thailand’s Institute for the Promotion of Teaching...

Breault Research Organization Supports Optics Research, Teaching at UC Merced

May 31, 2005
MERCED - The University of California, Merced, has received a major donation from an Arizona software company that will assist with research and facilitate teaching students at all levels in the field of non-imaging optics. Breault Research Organization (BRO) has given the university a donation...

Noted Fund-Raiser Named as Vice Chancellor for University Relations

May 25, 2005
Central Valley Native to Increase Visibility of Newest UC Campus MERCED, CA. – Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Keasey today announced the appointment of John Garamendi, Jr. as vice chancellor for University Relations at the University of California, Merced. Garamendi, an accomplished university fund-...

Student Advising and Learning Center to Enrich University Experience

May 20, 2005
As a Spanish professor at Eastern Oregon University, Elizabeth Boretz found herself emotionally unable to let troubled students slide out of sight. It kills me when students are not doing their best, she explains. Sometimes I couldn’;t do anything to effectively help the students who needed it...

Support Makes the Difference After Losing a Child

May 20, 2005
When Marisela Angel started work at UC Merced in May 2002, she was excited to be assisting the IT division with technical and business tasks. The Planada native and first-generation Fresno State graduate was also expecting her second child. But when baby Alejandro died due to a detached placenta,...

UC Merced Prepares to Welcome First Students on Campus

May 18, 2005
Central Valley Students Represent Almost 30 Percent of Developing Freshman Class MERCED, CA. — After 17 years of planning and development, UC Merced is making its final preparations to welcome freshman, transfer and graduate students on campus in just over three months. A total of 974 students...

Engineer Pursues Cultural, Academic Exchanges With Colombian University

May 13, 2005
Engineer Pursues Cultural, Academic Exchanges With Colombian University Germán Gavilán, who joined UC Merced as an Academic Coordinator in March 2004 and last January became the assistant dean in the School of Engineering, is working with two major goals in mind: Pioneering a new university while...

Researchers Find Accurate Mountain Snow Data Using NASA-developed Sensor Webs

May 10, 2005
YOSEMITE — When a television newscast reports two feet of new snow in the Sierra Nevada, you might anticipate a great ski weekend, but standard measurements like those used by TV news can be 20 to 30 percent off the mark on the actual amount of snow in the mountains. To obtain more precise...

Academic Exchange Program Established with Chinese University

May 9, 2005
UC Merced and the Communication University of China recently initiated an academic exchange program that will encourage the flow of understanding, ideas and information between the two universities. This is the first international exchange program established by UC Merced, with efforts under way...

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