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Merced 2020 Project Earns Thomson Reuters Award

January 12, 2017
The Merced 2020 Project — UC Merced’s unprecedented, $1.3 billion campus expansion plan — has been named the “Americas P3 Deal of the Year” in Thomson Reuters’ Project Finance International (PFI) Awards. The PFI Awards are part of the Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence, recognizing corporate and...

History Professor to Give Talk in Turlock on the Graphic Novel

January 11, 2017
UC Merced history Professor Mario Sifuentez will present a lecture, “Histories and the Graphic Novel,” at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15. Sifuentez will discuss how the medium of the graphic novel has shaped history and how history has shaped the medium. The talk will...

Students Building Living Machines Out of Engineered Tissues

January 11, 2017
There are many labs at UC Merced where visitors can see students huddled over microscopes and petri dishes, using tweezers to extract and examine different items. But no one at UC Merced has ever seen the likes of what’s going on in Professor Kara McCloskey’s class. The graduate and undergraduate...

Study: Early High-Altitude Settlers Were Hunter-Gatherers, Not Farmers

January 5, 2017
A new paper by UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer begins to settle a longstanding debate over when people began permanently occupying higher elevations of the Tibetan Plateau, and shows communities did not have to be based around agriculture and domesticated animals to be permanent. “Permanent...

Scientists Build Synthetic Cell-Sized Membranes Out of Paper

January 4, 2017
Scientists have been synthesizing lipid membranes from a variety of materials, making them as lifelike as possible to learn more about how cells work and how they can be manipulated. UC Merced Professor Anand Subramaniam and his students have come up with a novel, portable and startlingly simple...

Professor’s Himalayan Archaeological Finds Documented on ‘NOVA’

January 3, 2017
Join UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer as he and his colleagues explore the world’s highest cave tombs, revealing new details about the lives of the people who settled the Himalaya, in the season premiere of “NOVA” on PBS. In “Secrets of the Sky Tombs,” archaeologist Aldenderfer and fellow...

Economic Impact of Campus Rises to $2.6 Billion

December 21, 2016
Even before its unprecedented expansion through the Merced 2020 Project, the University of California, Merced, has directly contributed more than $1.4 billion to the San Joaquin Valley economy to date, and more than $2.6 billion to the state’s economy, according to the university’s annual Economic...

Campus Community Steps Up to Make a Difference

December 20, 2016
  From canned food to toys, UC Merced campus members enthusiastically contributed to a host of philanthropic activities this holiday season, all of which benefit the greater Merced community.   These efforts further the campus's goal of improving the quality of life for individuals, families and...

Researchers to Discuss Strong Family Relationships in Symposium

December 20, 2016
UC Merced will host its fourth annual Symposium on the Child and Family from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Jan. 28, offering a day of talks by researchers on the theme of “Strong Families: Fostering Healthy Parent-Child Relationships and Child Development.” The symposium is designed to be of interest to...

In-State Demand for UC Merced Admission Hits a Record High

December 19, 2016
The University of California, Merced, received more than 18,000 applications from California high school seniors seeking admission for Fall 2017 — a 10.1 percent increase from the previous year, or the largest percent increase in the UC system. The vast majority of the 21,509 applications to UC...

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