News
October 8, 2012
A generous gift from a Valley family with long ties to UC Merced will give the campus a legacy fund that firmly establishes its leadership role in regional entrepreneurialism.
The Dr. and Mrs. Vikram Lakireddy Innovation and Design Clinic Endowed Fund will also help transform engineering studies...
October 8, 2012
Sometimes, all you need is a little push, even if it comes from a mechanical arm.
That was the case with the UC Merced Robotics Society, which began in 2008 but languished after its founders graduated.
This past year, though, the club’s newer members got a jump start from dedicated...
October 8, 2012
A recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a UC Merced professor and colleagues at Stanford University describes how a critical component of bacterial cell division works.
That research could lead to figuring out how to control harmful bacterial growth.
"It...
October 8, 2012
New CatBuy POCR Feature Launched
On Oct. 1, Campus Purchasing requested department buyers discontinue sending change order requests through email or fax and instead use the new Purchase Order Change Request (POCR) feature implemented in CatBuy. Campus Purchasing offered two webinar training...
October 8, 2012
At 33, Nick Navarrette isn’t the average UC Merced student. He’s not even the average transfer student. Then again, Navarrette has never been “average,” nor does he pretend to be. Maybe that’s why adversity doesn’t seem to faze him.
The former UC Merced police...
October 8, 2012
UC Merced has its first entrepreneur-in-residence, Jerome A. Mattingly, who works with the Office of Technology Transfer to help anyone – faculty, staff or students – who has an idea for a business. Each UC campus has at least one such staff member, and Mattingly is UC Merced’s...
October 5, 2012
UC Merced will officially close for nine days during the 2012 holiday season. The closure period for 2012 includes four University-paid holidays: Dec. 24, 25 and 31, plus Jan. 1, 2013. Some UC Merced employees and units will be required to work during the closure period and must notify their...
October 5, 2012
UC Merced’s Staff Assembly has added another tool to its list of resources to help keep staff members notified of news, events and information. The new President’s Newsletter, an online publication that can be found on the Staff Assembly website, will be published once a semester, said...
October 5, 2012
On the 15th day of each semester, UC Merced takes a snapshot of enrolled students for reporting and analysis purposes. In the weeks following these snapshots, data are summarized by Institutional Planning & Analysis (IPA) and made available online. Most tables include current and historical...
September 28, 2012
The fall semester is already in full swing as I write this update. We have again met our enrollment targets for this academic year. Institutional Planning and Analysis reports that 5,760 students (5,697 FTE) are enrolled this term. In addition, the campus has its largest graduate enrollment...
