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Big-Data Project Nets Professor a Big Award

June 23, 2014
Professor Florin Rusu’s passion for analyzing voluminous amounts of data has won him a prestigious early-career award from the federal Department of Energy, making him the fifth of the nine eligible faculty members in the computer science and engineering group to earn the honor, and the first one...

Book Explores Tea Party's Rise, Dynamics

June 16, 2014
There’s a tendency for researchers to only study leftist movements, but a new book co-edited by UC Merced sociology Professor Nella Van Dyke analyzes the Tea Party movement. “We need to understand them, too. They have different dynamics,” Van Dyke said. “It appeared so suddenly and exploded onto...

UC Cooperative Extension Positions to Connect Research, Community

June 11, 2014
Two UC Cooperative Extension specialists are being deployed to UC Merced to take advantage of its location at the center of California agriculture and build on ongoing research into agriculturally significant matters related to climate, food security and nutrition. The two UCCE specialists, from...

Southern California Edison Earns Engineering Vanguard Award

June 9, 2014
Southern California Edison has been selected as this year’s recipient of the UC Merced School of Engineering Vanguard Margin of Excellence Award. “Southern California Energy’s partnership with UC Merced has created countless opportunities for engineering students to positively impact their...

De Acker Named Staff Advisor-Designate to the Regents

June 4, 2014
Campus Ombuds Deidre “De” Acker has been appointed Staff Advisor-designate for 2014-16, UC President Janet Napolitano announced this week. Acker joins Donna Coyne of UC Santa Barbara, the 2013-15 staff advisor, after a systemwide search. Coyne will be the Staff Advisor, replacing Kathy Barton of UC...

Scholarship Helps UC Merced Senior Expand Her Worldview

June 2, 2014
Patricia Leslie is the first in her family to attend college. And the UC Merced senior is making the most of it, both on campus and beyond. Leslie is studying abroad in Córdoba, a small city located in the Andalusian region of southern Spain. The experience has helped her not only with her language...

Project to Bring Attention to Overlooked American Artists

May 27, 2014
For the past several years, art history Professor ShiPu Wang has been on a detective mission to find every work produced by a group of overlooked artists from the early 20th century. Wang has reviewed copious primary source documents, pursued private collectors and family estates, and visited...

Class of 2014 Bids Farewell, Begins Next Chapter

May 19, 2014
At two weekend ceremonies, UC Merced conferred degrees on more than 1,000 commencement candidates who said goodbye to the campus they called home for the past four or more years of their lives. Before receiving their diplomas, members of the Class of 2014 – from as far away as Russia and China –...

New Center Seeks Better Ways to Communicate Climate Issues

May 19, 2014
Climate change is creating two problems. One is understanding and addressing its impact on the world. The other is convincing large swaths of the public that it is, in fact, a reality. In an effort to spur people to take action to prevent ecological disaster, researchers with the new UC Merced...

Senior Balances Athletics, Academics With Agility

May 14, 2014
Growing up in Bangkok, Surabordin Prachumsri knew what he wanted to do at an early age. Now in his final year at UC Merced, that hasn’t changed for the 22-year-old. “My mom is an anthropologist, and I always liked science as a kid,” said Prachumsri, who goes by “Ai.” “It’s one of the things I’m...

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