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UC Merced’s Roland Winston Resolves 40-Year Particle Physics Problem

October 28, 2004
MERCED — UC Merced Professor Roland Winston and two colleagues have published a solution to a 40-year-old quandary in particle physics. They reanalyzed many years of measurements of mu meson and neutron decay to obtain a new result that satisfies mathematical requirements and confirms the accuracy...

A Mountain Home Base for Big-Picture Science: The Wawona SNRI Field Station

October 26, 2004
Native Americans in the Yosemite area called the site of the current town of Wawona Pallachun, “a good place to stay.” Student and faculty researchers of the UC Merced Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) agree. They have a new base of operations in the Sierra Nevada: the Wawona SNRI Field ...

Climbing Offers Level-headed Approach to Challenges for Dean Kenji Hakuta

October 26, 2004
About 10 years ago, Kenji Hakuta was on sabbatical leave from Stanford and decided to try something new. He picked up rock climbing through a weekend climbing class with UC Berkeley and has been climbing ever since. My major goal in climbing has been to enjoy the company and the views, not...

The University of California Releases Bilingual Admissions Guide

October 15, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ricardo Vázquez (510) 287-3301 ricardo.vazquez@ucop.edu To better serve Spanish-speaking families throughout the state, the University of California Office of the President has published a new version of “Great futures start here” or “Un futuro brillante comienza aquí,” a...

UC Merced Wins $2.7 Million to Establish Center for Computational Biology

October 13, 2004
MERCED — The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing has awarded a three-year, $900,000-per-year grant to the University of California, Merced, to establish a Center for Computational Biology (CCB). Researchers at the CCB will use computer simulations to help understand...

Recent Campus Construction Photos

October 13, 2004

President Dynes' Statement on UC's Latest Nobel Laureate

October 11, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News Office (510) 987-9200 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today (Monday) announced that the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Finn E. Kydland, who holds the Jeff Henley Endowed Chair in Economics at UC Santa Barbara...

The McClatchy Company Endows Chair in Communications

October 4, 2004
MERCED, CA. — When The McClatchy Company purchased the Merced Sun-Star in January 2004, one of its first acts was to begin the process of creating an endowed chair at the University of California, Merced. The company';s gift of $500,000 is now finalized and UC Merced today (October 4, 2004)...

Biofuels Conference Promotes Renewable Energy Opportunities

October 4, 2004
FRESNO — The October 15th Biofuels or Bust! conference at the UC Center in Fresno aims to educate small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs about business opportunities available in the cutting-edge biofuels industry, which has received significant attention recently as a potential growth...

Health Sciences Fair at UC Merced Draws Huge Crowd

September 27, 2004
Over 800 students from 20 area schools attended the first-ever UC Merced Health Sciences Fair on Friday, September 21, 2004. Senator Jeff Denham also visited the event, which was organized in partnership with Merced College, Modesto Junior College and San Joaquin Delta College. The Health Sciences...

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