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Senior Bio Major to Represent Class of 2010 at Commencement

May 6, 2010
The four years most students spend at college can offer a lot more than academic knowledge. They’re a time to start becoming the person you want to be for the rest of your life. Jill Tsai, a seniorbiologymajor from Diamond Bar, decided as a new UC Mercedfreshmanshe would do exactly that.“In high...

Build Local Partnerships with Merced-Area Agencies

May 5, 2010
May 5, 2010 MERCED - The University of California, Merced, will host a “Building Local Partnerships” event from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 6, at the Boys & Girls Club in Merced. Sponsored by The Greater Merced Chamber of Commerce, “Building Local Partnerships” will teach visitors how to...

Undergraduate Research Helps Senior Get into Harvard

May 4, 2010
UC Mercedbioengineeringmajor Christian Ayeni had nearly decided against applying to Harvard University’s virology program last fall. Not only was it an Ivy League school, he reasoned, it was charging an application fee about twice what he had been paying at other universities. Still, something...

President Jimmy Carter to Visit UC Merced Campus May 3

May 3, 2010
President Jimmy Carter will visit the University of California, Merced, campus today (May 3) to deliver the keynote address at a National Parks Instituteseminar on the management of parks and protected lands and receive the 2010 Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and...

Graduate Student Earns NSF Fellowship for Research, Outreach

May 2, 2010
Emily C. Wilson has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the first UC Merced student given this honor. The fellowship, which is renewable for up to three years, allows her to both focus on pursuing herdoctoraldegree inquantitative systems biologyand...

UC Merced Designated as Hispanic-Serving Institution

April 30, 2010
April 30, 2010 Merced the second UC campus to receive designation, which provides enhanced access to funding for student support services, faculty development and renovation of instructional facilities Quick Facts UC Merced has been designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the U.S....

University Adds Four Minors in Expansion of Programs

April 28, 2010
April 28, 2010 Quick Facts UC Merced has added minors in Chicano/a studies, public health, chemical sciences, and environmental sciences and sustainability. The university now offers 19 majors and 22 minors through its three schools. The new programs will be available in fall 2010. Beginning...

Graduate Students Publish, Network Through Orientalism Conference

April 23, 2010
Four UC Mercedgraduatestudents expanded their curriculum vitae after publishing essays in a book that builds on Orientalism, an idea from literary and culture critic Edward Said, who was critical of the way Western countries viewed the East. The book,“One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing...

Financial Crash Sends UC Merced Mathematician into New Territory

April 23, 2010
UC Mercedapplied mathProfessorHarish Bhatwatched the financial markets collapse while he was teaching at Columbia University several years ago. The costly miscalculations by so many major Wall Street firms and the unanswered questions about what went so wrong compelled Bhat to look into the...

Sustainability Strategies Outlined in New Planning Document

April 22, 2010
Quick Facts UC Merced’s inaugural Sustainability Strategic Plan is a document that outlines the campus’ sustainability goals and how it will achieve them. The plan is supplemented by the university’s sustainability website, sustainability.ucmerced.edu. The formation of the plan and Web site was...

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