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UC Merced Professor Receives Prop. 99 Grant Money to Study Tobacco Effects

June 20, 2005
MERCED - In 1988, California voters approved Proposition 99, an initiative specifying that five percent of cigarette tax revenue be appropriated for research on tobacco-related disease. UC Merced professor Henry Jay Forman is now bringing $420,000 of that money to Merced to study how human...

Master of a Miniature World: Staffer Combines Interests to Create Lifelike Models

June 20, 2005
Readers may not have recognized them, but construction machines from the UC Merced campus site appeared in the April 2005 issue of Model Magazine to show how hard work in hard conditions can affect heavy machinery. “People who build models of heavy equipment or other vehicles want to make them...

Upcoming Deadlines for Incoming Students

June 13, 2005
As of June 10, more than 1000 undergraduates have submitted their Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) for fall 2005 at UC Merced! Hundreds of faculty and staff members - not to mention friends of UC Merced in this area and around the state of California - are celebrating that fact and eagerly...

Overcoming a Rough Start, Salysia Perez Seizes Success

June 13, 2005
Growing up, Salysia Perez watched multiple family members ” including her mother and the aunt who reared her up until her freshman year at Fresno’s Hoover High School ” succumb to substance abuse and addiction. “I didn’t want to be part of that cycle,” she affirms. Her individual determination has...

Registered UC Students Now Eligible to Use Rec Facilities at Any UC Campus

June 10, 2005
To support student health throughout the UC system, a policy of reciprocity is being adopted by the Recreational Sports Consortium, starting June 1, 2005. During the one year pilot program, all registered UC students may use the recreational facilities at any UC campus.Throughout the UC system,...

UC Merced Supports Health Services, New Enclosure for Bobcat at Local Zoo

June 8, 2005
Four years ago, local elementary students chose the Golden Bobcat as UC Merced’s mascot. Today, a real live bobcat would like to be a part of UC Merced’s first class on opening day. A four-month-old cub was anonymously dumped at Merced’s Applegate Zoo a few weeks ago, where zoo workers found...

UC Merced Supports Health Services, New Enclosure for Bobcat at Local Zoo

June 8, 2005
Four years ago, local elementary students chose the Golden Bobcat as UC Merced’s mascot. Today, a real live bobcat would like to be a part of UC Merced’s first class on opening day. A four-month-old cub was anonymously dumped at Merced’s Applegate Zoo a few weeks ago, where zoo workers found him...

Researchers Train Thai Professors on GLOBE Program

June 3, 2005
Professor Martha Conklin and postdoctoral researcher Sarah May visited Thailand after last year’s tsunami to train volunteers in the GLOBE program, which provides opportunities for students to participate in scientific research. Authorities in Thailand’s Institute for the Promotion of Teaching...

Breault Research Organization Supports Optics Research, Teaching at UC Merced

May 31, 2005
MERCED - The University of California, Merced, has received a major donation from an Arizona software company that will assist with research and facilitate teaching students at all levels in the field of non-imaging optics. Breault Research Organization (BRO) has given the university a donation...

Noted Fund-Raiser Named as Vice Chancellor for University Relations

May 25, 2005
Central Valley Native to Increase Visibility of Newest UC Campus MERCED, CA. – Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Keasey today announced the appointment of John Garamendi, Jr. as vice chancellor for University Relations at the University of California, Merced. Garamendi, an accomplished university fund-...

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