News
November 6, 2012
Risky Business
Risk Services is proud to announce "Risky Business," a day focusing on risk awareness at UC Merced.
Risky Business is a day dedicated to bringing together our campus partners to communicate and collaborate on risk management issues through a variety of free webinars,...
November 6, 2012
UC Merced has hired two experienced leaders to help create a natural reserve out of the open land adjacent to campus, and share management duties.
Steve Shackelton, former National Parks Service leader and chief ranger in Yosemite, began work this fall. He will co-manage the planned reserve with...
November 6, 2012
New first year and transfer students who enrolled in UC Merced this fall were invited to participate in a survey soliciting their first impressions of UC Merced, their expectations for their college career and their process for selecting the campus.
Here are highlights from those who completed the...
October 26, 2012
UC Merced ethnomusicology Professor David Kaminisky was drawn to UC Merced by the opportunity to help develop a new program that can give students the tools to do critical analyses of all kinds of artistic products and processes. Whether it’s music, painting, film or dance, whether it’s...
October 26, 2012
Professor Mónica Medina started out as the only marine biologist in a National Science Foundation workshop last year, but she ended up with a group of new partners and an opinion piece in the prestigious journal Science earlier this month.
Through discussions with colleagues from many other...
October 26, 2012
Registered voters in Merced County will be able to cast their ballots on Election Day at UC Merced.
The polling station in the California Room, inside the Visitors Center, will remain open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The UC Merced polling site is one of three satellite polling stations in the county....
October 26, 2012
Former UC Merced graduate student Korana Burke has been selected as one of the two 2012 UC Davis Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellows.
Burke's research aims to understand and exploit the chaotic behavior of real-life systems in order to offer novel solutions to long standing problems,...
October 26, 2012
Professor Fabian Filipp is trying to put up roadblocks. But instead of stopping cars, he's trying to keep cancers from growing.
Filipp, a systems biology professor who started at UC Merced this fall, studies the metabolic cycle of melanoma, which is the leading cause of death from skin cancers...
October 25, 2012
UC Merced officially launched Career Tracks on Oct. 1 and work related to the project continues.
Human Resources’ Compensation unit is in the midst of sorting and processing the reconsideration, reclassification and new classification requests received.
Career Tracks is the new...
October 24, 2012
The Office of the President and UC Merced are making changes to their respective policies websites.
UCOP launched a new searchable systemwide Policy Library that serves as a one-stop resource for all UC policies, from academic affairs and human resources, to research administration and student...
