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Transfer Student Uses Sports, Academics to Inspire Local Youth

October 8, 2012
  At 33, Nick Navarrette isn’t the average UC Merced student. He’s not even the average transfer student. Then again, Navarrette has never been “average,” nor does he pretend to be. Maybe that’s why adversity doesn’t seem to faze him. The former UC Merced police officer was on top of the world when...

Lakireddy Gift Promotes Engineering and Entrepreneurship

October 4, 2012
MERCED, Calif. — A generous gift from a Valley family with long ties to UC Merced will give the campus a legacy fund that firmly establishes its leadership role in regional entrepreneurialism. The Dr. and Mrs. Vikram Lakireddy Innovation and Design Clinic Endowed Fund will also help transform...

Robotics Society Navigates Uncharted Courses

October 3, 2012
Sometimes, all you need is a little push, even if it comes from a mechanical arm. That was the case with the UC Merced Robotics Society, which began in 2008 but languished after its founders graduated. This past year, though, the club’s newer members got a jump start from dedicated leadership and...

Study Sheds Light on Bacterial Cell Division

October 1, 2012
Staph, e-coli, meningitis, MRSA and botulism are just a few of the thousands of bacterial infections that plague people all over the world. For example, almost 23,300 people in the United States were sickened by food-borne bacterial illnesses in 2008, according to the Centers for Disease Control....

Enrollment Continues to Climb at UC Merced

September 27, 2012
The University of California, Merced, began its eighth academic year with 5,760 undergraduate and graduate students, up nearly 11 percent to a new high, according to data released today (Sept. 27). The increase proves that demand for UC Merced grows, despite a difficult economic environment. Space...

Cog Sci Professor Researches Communication's Development in Newborns

September 26, 2012
From burps to babbling, cognitive science Professor Anne S. Warlaumont studies how children develop their ability to verbally communicate in the first year of their lives. “I’ve always been interested in the origin of complex human behavior,” Warlaumont said, “and communication is one of the most...

UC Merced the Focus of Global Sustainable Design Contest

September 26, 2012
MERCED, Calif. — A global sustainable architecture competition is turning all eyes to the University of California, Merced, the newest campus in the UC system, and the only one to have all its buildings certified by the US Green Building Council as meeting LEED standards. Architecture at Zero 2012...

National Science Foundation Grant Supports Biodiversity Research

September 25, 2012
MERCED, Calif. — A $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation will support a five-year investigation by University of California, Merced, researchers into environmental changes in marine lakes, including why some species adapt while others go extinct. The grant also is helping spread...

Senegal Shrubbery Research Could Bear Fruit for Many

September 24, 2012
Shrubs blooming in a specific area of Africa might hold the answers to feeding millions of people on that continent, and possibly others. UC Merced Professor Teamrat Ghezzehei, his doctoral student, Nate Bogie, and researchers from Ohio State University, Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles...

Student, Faculty Music Projects Enlivening Area Scene

September 19, 2012
Professor Arnold Kim’s music couldn’t be more different than that of student-staff-alumni band Feeling Gravity’s Pull. Kim’s The Yellow Hope Project work is heavily influenced by what he has been listening to for years – old-school country, soul, blues and folk. It’s quiet and confessional, moody...

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