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ABC 30 KFSN: UC Growth Booms Local Growth

April 16, 2018

Sustainable California Video Highlights UC Water Academy Experience

April 13, 2018
April is Earth Month. It’s also when UC Water Academy — an intensive course aimed at training the next generation of California water experts — starts its second year. To mark the occasion, UC Water released its second video for the UCTV Sustainable California channel. “...

Health Psychology Professor Wins Prestigious Award

April 13, 2018
The Society of Pediatric Psychology has recognized Professor Deborah Wiebe for her body of research on the psychology of adolescent health. Wiebe, the head of UC Merced’s Health Psychology program within the Psychological Sciences graduate group, won the Dennis Drotar Distinguished...

Lifetime Achievement Award Honors Distinguished Psychology Professor

April 12, 2018
Distinguished Professor Jan Wallander heads to New Orleans today (April 12) to attend a conference and receive the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Pediatric Medicine and Behavioral Health from the Society of Behavioral Medicine Child and Family...

Nominations for 2018 Staff Excellence Awards Due April 20

April 12, 2018
Do you know a staff member who goes above and beyond to get the job done, provides great customer service or makes a difference in the greater Merced community? If so, consider nominating them for a 2018 Staff Citation of Excellence Award. UC Merced’s Staff Assembly is now accepting online...

New Classroom Space Helps Teachers Learn New Curriculum, Lessons

April 12, 2018
Project Wet, a program run by the Water Education Foundation, will offer area educators hands-on lessons in teaching children about the value of a sustainable future. This is the first time such a class has been offered through UC Merced Extension Education Programs, and it takes place tomorrow(...

Campus’s First Student Fulbright Scholar Heads to El Salvador for Research

April 11, 2018
UC Merced graduate student Danielle Bermudez will spend the next 10 months in El Salvador, conducting research and serving as a cultural ambassador for the campus as a Fulbright U.S. Student Researcher. She is the campus’s first student winner of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. There...

Women’s Soccer Star, Campus Leader Wraps Four Fulfilling Years

April 9, 2018
When prospective student-athletes visit UC Merced, soccer standout Abbie-Leigh Meneses is among the first people they meet. Not long ago, Meneses was a recruit herself, touring the University of California’s 10th and newest campus. She fell in love with UC Merced and its central location...

Smith, Shelton Headline Postseason Awards

April 6, 2018

Feeling a Little Puckish? Get Thee to Yosemite for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

April 5, 2018
Desperate lovers, a fairy king and queen, a woman with a donkey’s head and a scamp with Cupid’s arrow in flower form are taking over Yosemite National Park on Earth Day weekend. Highlighting UC Merced’s special partnership with Yosemite, Shakespeare in Yosemite enters its second...

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