Links to Opening Convocation and Celebration speeches:
UC Regents Chairman Gerald Parsky
UC President Robert C. Dynes
UC Merced Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Keasey
Keynote Speaker Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Links to Photography of Opening Convocation and Celebration:
Procession
Convocation...
News
September 5, 2005
UC MERCED CAMPUS OPENING CEREMONY
Monday, September 5, 2005 - Merced, California
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Jesse Climenko
Professor of Law & Founding/Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
Harvard University
“A MEDITATION ON SUCCESS”
Academic...
September 5, 2005
MERCED, CA - With a stirring tribute to its 137-year history and
a message of hope for the future, the University of California
today officially opened its first new campus in 40 years - the
University of California, Merced - and welcomed the inaugural class
of students.
UC Merced becomes the 10th...
September 5, 2005
Introduction
A tenth campus of the University of California is the
fulfillment of a promise to the people of California - a promise
that began shortly after the Gold Rush with the conviction that
education reshapes society and promotes prosperity. In looking at
the early history of the...
September 2, 2005
To Members of the UC Merced Campus Community:
Our entire University responds in sympathy and sorrow to the
horrific devastation of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina.
For those of you who are from the region, as well as community
members with families in the region of disaster: please know that...
August 19, 2005
Top UC Officials to WelcomeInaugural Class of 1,000 in Special Convocation Ceremony
First New University of California Campus in 40 YearsIs 10th in UC System - and First in San Joaquin Valley
MERCED, CA - The University of California, Merced - the first
new University of California campus since...
August 11, 2005
Faculty and staff at UC Merced have consistently promised students that their education in the field of engineering will be not just theoretical, but practical. And the follow-through on that promise is beginning even before the campus opens.
Vanguard, UC Merced’s student engineering organization...
August 11, 2005
Leng Xiong remembers when his family fled their village in Thailand in his early childhood, in 1990.
“There wasn’t any food,” he says. “Traveling through the jungle we had to get what we could, but people suffered and died because of malnutrition.”
That experience has helped guide his vision for...
August 9, 2005
Million-dollar Grant Will Provide Opportunities for Disadvantaged San Joaquin Valley Youth
MERCED, CA— Bank of America and UC Merced announced today the awarding of a $1 million Bank of America Charitable Foundation grant - the largest grant the bank has ever made in the San Joaquin Valley.
UC...
August 3, 2005
Mary L. Hayes knows to achieve her goals she has to be better than average. The incoming freshman student from Oakland has interests in medicine, law and music as well as entrepreneurial aspirations.
“I want to be something where I can help somebody, and to do that I’ll have to know a little more...
