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Marine Biologist Awarded Prestigious GuggenheimFellowship

April 7, 2011
Mónica Medina, a biology professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California, Merced, has been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced today. Medina is among a diverse group of 180 scholars, artists and...

Volleyball Team Ready for Next Step

April 3, 2011
If there was any question whether UC Merced was ready to take its sports teams to a higher competitive level, the women's volleyball club team has proved it this year. When senior Kayla Taylor first joined the team as a freshman, in the club's second year, the Bobcats struggled to win even a...

Former State Supreme Court Justice to Receive SpendlovePrize

March 31, 2011
Cruz Reynoso, who has spent his life fighting for immigrants' rights, will be the 2011 recipient of UC Merced's Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance Quick Facts Cruz Reynoso, a former California Supreme Court Justice and civil rights lawyer, will be the...

Diverse Physics Faculty Above National Average, Earn Prestigious Awards

March 25, 2011
UC Merced's physicsgroup is defying the odds. Women make up 14 percent of physics faculty at U.S. degree-granting institutions, according to a 2010 survey by the American Institute of Physics. At UC Merced, three of the eight professors are women, or more than a third. Also, one of the two...

Undergraduates Assist Merced High School Students with Key Exam

March 18, 2011
Six UC Merced students are showing their passion for serving the community by tutoring a group of Merced High School students who are in danger of failing a key exit exam. The group was organized by world history major Dulcemaria Anaya, of Merced, and environmental engineering major Jesse Anaya,...

UC Merced Options Set Engineering Alumnus on the Right Path

March 11, 2011
Unlike many other schools, UC Merced allows freshman students to enter with a major of “engineering - undeclared.” For Matt Nelson, now looking back on his freshman year more than five years down the line, the option proved a distinct advantage. “I honestly had no idea what I would be doing now...

Statement from UC Merced Chancellor Steve Kang

March 11, 2011
I am deeply shocked and saddened by the news of the tragic 8.9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck Japan today. This major catastrophe has caused heavy damage, apparently mostly in the northeastern portion of the country. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected,...

National Parks, Reserved Lands the Focus of Leadership Seminar

March 9, 2011
From California's Sierra foothills to Sweden's Tyresta forest, the problems facing the world's national parks and reserved lands are immense and require a new way of thinking. Park leaders from across the globe are being brought together in April for an intensive, 12-day leadership program to...

Professor Studies Early Childhood Development

March 4, 2011
UC Merced Professor Rose Scott studies how young children begin to understand the social world and all its complexities. It happens sooner than most would think. Babies who are three months old can begin to show they understand that people have preferences, and 18-month-olds can understand that...

Wireless Sensors to Improve Sierra Snowpack Measurements

March 3, 2011
More than half of the water used in California for farming and drinking and other everyday uses comes by way of runoff from the Sierra Nevada, and gauging the amount of snow there and predicting how much runoff there will be is an annual rite that has a major trickledown effect of its own....

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