Experts say poor eating habits and inactivity, the main causes
of obesity, could mean children face shorter life expectancies than
their parents. The increasing problem of childhood obesity in the
San Joaquin Valley has prompted a $5,000 gift from Millennium
SportsClub to the University of...
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May 4, 2007
Living on campus at UC Merced offers lots of advantages, but most of them can be summed up in a few key words - cost, convenience and concentration.
On-campus living might seem expensive at first, but it’s often comparable, when you consider the costs of food, utilities, transportation and parking...
May 4, 2007
Living on campus at UC Merced offers lots of advantages, but most of them can be summed up in a few key words – cost, convenience and concentration.
On-campus living might seem expensive at first, but it´s often comparable, when you consider the costs of food, utilities, transportation and...
May 4, 2007
Not every college sophomore would describe their feelings about an intensive, two-year research program with the word “stoked.”
It helps a little bit that the UC Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) program will let UC Merced’s Mike Oliveira live in San Francisco for the...
May 4, 2007
Central Plant is key component of university’s commitmentto sustainable development and environmental leadership
MERCED - The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected
the University of California, Merced’s first building complex,
known as the Central Plant, to receive a 2007 Institute...
May 2, 2007
MERCED - Professor
Gregg Herkenwon a fellowship through the Foundation for Defense
of Democracies that will take him to Israel for 10 days this summer.
The FDD, which formed after the terror attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, annually invites several university professors to attend an
intensive 10-day...
May 1, 2007
MERCED - Students, faculty and other researchers at the
University of California, Merced, now have electronic access to
more than 1,100 journals published by Taylor & Francis, thanks
to a new deal between the publisher and the California Digital
Library (CDL), a network connecting libraries...
April 27, 2007
One of the benefits of a brand-new university is getting to start your own clubs and organizations – and learning from other universities’ experience to get it right.
That’s part of the charge of the Greek Life Task Force, a group of students, faculty members and administrators tasked with...
April 27, 2007
One of the benefits of a brand-new university is getting to start your own clubs and organizations – and learning from other universities’ experience to get it right.
That’s part of the charge of the Greek Life Task Force, a group of students, faculty members and administrators tasked with...
April 27, 2007
At UC Merced, you will find Michael Winder in the role of writing instructor, and on May 4, you can also catch him in the role of Serge in Playhouse Merced’s production of “Art.”
Winder hadn’t acted since high school, but in February, he took part in a one-act show before signing on for the...
