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Athletics Honored with Cal Pac Awards

June 8, 2015
Long hours and hard work paid off for UC Merced’s intercollegiate athletics program last week when the California Pacific Conference’s 2014-15 awards were announced. For the first time in conference history, one school earned every departmental award. UC Merced Director of Recreation and Athletics...

Researcher Wins Fulbright Award to Study Himalayan Hydropower

June 3, 2015
UC Merced researcher David Rheinheimer has seen the Himalayas from many angles — from his home on the Yangtze River, from the foothills as a student in India and from the Nu River in Yunnan’s Three Parallel Rivers area. But as a 2015-16 Fulbright scholar, Rheinheimer will spend the coming year...

Most Americans Could Eat Locally, Research Shows

June 1, 2015
MERCED, Calif. — New farmland-mapping research published today shows that up to 90 percent of Americans could be fed entirely by food grown or raised within 100 miles of their homes. Professor Elliott Campbell, with the University of California, Merced, School of Engineering, discusses the...

Professor Joins Major New Robotics Initiative

May 29, 2015
UC Merced Professor Stefano Carpin will serve on the executive board of a new multidisciplinary research enterprise called the People and Robots Initiative, by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). The initiative will support efforts by faculty members...

Campus Community Aids in Voting Push for Area Bike Trail

May 27, 2015
Merced is conveniently located in the middle of everything. Whether one seeks the beach, the mountains or the city, the destination lies little more than two hours away. Thanks to a committed group of outdoor enthusiasts, however, the adventure of extreme off-road cycling could soon be much closer...

Students Take Lead in Helping Campus Go Green

May 20, 2015
Students Gabriel Morabe and Hoaithi “Thi” Dang share a love of green — the color that makes for a better campus and stronger planet. Morabe, a junior, and Dang, a freshman, are devoted to sustainability at UC Merced and beyond. Both have led impressive efforts to conserve water, power and more on...

Student Teams Win Cash Prizes at Innovate to Grow

May 19, 2015
The winners of this year’s Innovate to Grow competition have been announced. The event includes three components: The Mobile App Challenge, the Capstone competition for senior Innovation and Design Clinic teams and the Engineering Service Learning competition for undergraduate teams. Two prizes are...

Children’s Opera Series Returns for Sixth Year

May 18, 2015
Thousands of area children will attend performances of “Who Stole B-Flat?” on the UC Merced campus this week as part of an effort to expose Merced County youth to opera and theater.  In addition to the free performances being offered to schools all week, a performance for the community is scheduled...

Chemistry Researcher Awarded Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

May 18, 2015
Researcher Makenzie Provorse parlayed her passion for computational chemistry into a position as UC Merced’s second Chancellor’s Postdoctoral fellow. As a runner up for the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship — a 31-year-old program enhanced with more money for hiring incentives recently by UC...

Graduates and Supporters Share Excitement on Social Media

May 18, 2015
The world of social media was buzzing this past weekend with text and multimedia posts. Here is a sampling: [View the story “UC Merced Honors the Class of 2015” on Storify]

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