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Student Mentor Finds There’s No Place Like Home

September 21, 2007
Claudia Zepeda is giving back to the community she grew up in the best way she knows how - mentoring students about what it takes to get accepted into college. Zepeda, a junior psychology major and the first in her family to attend college, grew up in the small town of San Joaquin in Fresno County...

Intercultural Programs Celebrate Diversity, Promote Equality

September 21, 2007
Intercultural programs are a given on any campus during Black History Month in February and Herstory Month in March, but under the direction of Jason Juarez, coordinator forintercultural programsin theOffice of Student Lifeat UC Merced, celebrating cultural diversity is just one goal. To him,...

NSF Funds High-tech Visualization and Motion Capture Equipment

September 20, 2007
MERCED - A year from now, if you’re watching a person in a motion-capture exoskeleton interacting with a giant high-resolution screen, you could be watching the special features on the latest CGI-effects action movie - or you could be watching a research demonstration in the Cognitive Sensorium...

UC Merced Celebrates Constitution Day

September 14, 2007
Each year, to celebrate that day the 55 men of the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia and signed America’s most important living document, the University of California observes Constitution Day. Sept. 17 is that anniversary, and UC Merced joins with sister campuses and...

Health Psychologist Working on Medical Education Program

September 14, 2007
The resilience and strength he saw in chronically ill children led Jan Wallander to the then-new study of health psychology. “I was touched by how such young beings could manage such difficulties so well,” he said. “Why is it that some children do it so well, while others have a really hard time...

Yosemite Research Pays Off Next Year for 8 Top Undergrads

September 10, 2007
MERCED - Undergraduate students need research opportunities, and the Sierra Nevada need researchers to explore and document their wonders and challenges. In a new program funded by the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program and sponsored in...

New Lecturer Brings Dino Expertise to Merced

September 7, 2007
Matt Wedel is a new lecturer at UC Merced this semester, but you won’t have any trouble distinguishing his office. “I’ll probably fill it up with bones,” said Wedel, whose main interest is paleontology. “I’m constantly accumulating them. Some I find on hikes, some I pull out of dead critters and...

Childcare Update: "Baby Bobcats" May Have Space on Campus Soon

September 7, 2007
In the next couple of years, UC Merced’s faculty, staff and student Bobcats will be able to keep their cubs nearby as they work and study. The pieces are falling into place for childcare on campus. A site near the campus entrance will house the facility - in front of the pump house, near Lake Road...

Excelling Student Gets Help from Gates Foundation

August 31, 2007
Not everyone can say Bill Gates came looking for them, but Salysia Perez can. As a senior in high school, she was recruited by the Gates Millennium Scholars program to apply for the group’s college scholarship. Now, three years later, she’s still receiving money each year to cover everything her...

UC Merced Meets World

August 31, 2007
If you notice a different vibe on campus this fall, it might just be the increased presence of global influences. You could even say this is the year UC Merced becomes an international campus. About 40 international students are on campus this semester under F-1 visa status.  These students hail...

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