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September 26, 2012
Graduate Student Services Coordinator Rachael Martin is serving this year as president for the UC Merced Staff Assembly. Martin shared the Staff Assembly goals for the year, her role in supporting graduate students and what one thing has made an impact on her life.
How long have you worked...
September 25, 2012
New UCPATH Website Launched
The University of California UCPath project launched a new website on Sept. 18 that provides information to UC employees about upcoming career opportunities at the UCPath Center in Riverside. The site also contains important announcements and progress updates...
September 25, 2012
Dean Mark S. Aldenderfer, of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, is feaured in the current issue of National Geographic for his research in the Upper Mustang region of Nepal.
"Mustang, a former kingdom in north-central Nepal, is home to one of the world’s great...
September 25, 2012
Proposition 30, sponsored by Gov. Jerry Brown, is a revenue generating initiative reflected as part of the 2012-13 state budget that would temporarily raise the state sales tax and increase personal income tax rates on incomes above $250,000. The measure is intended to partially address a...
September 25, 2012
Career Tracks, the job classification and compensation system for nonrepresented staff, is set to launch Oct. 1, and the deadline to submit a reconsideration request is Sunday, Sept. 30.
Reconsideration is a review of an employee’s mapping. The formal reconsideration process requires the...
September 25, 2012
The University of California, in what is believed to be the largest survey of its kind ever conducted, will ask students, faculty and staff about their experiences with diversity and inclusion at work and on campus.
The confidential survey will be administered on a location-by-location basis...
September 25, 2012
From burps to babbling, cognitive science Professor Anne S. Warlaumont studies how children develop their ability to verbally communicate in the first year of their lives.
"I've always been interested in the origin of complex human behavior," Warlaumont said, "and communication...
September 14, 2012
If you think that faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students are the only people who have a hand in the research being conducted at UC Merced, think again. Behind each proposal or project, there are a number of people who have a hand in advancing research.
“Overall, there are very few...
September 14, 2012
UC Merced’s library used to be one of the trashiest places on campus – patrons generated a lot more garbage than recycling.
But all that garbage led to an invention by two campus staff members that could help UC Merced reach the zero landfill waste portion of its Triple Zero commitment...
September 14, 2012
The Department of Public Safety would like to point out a few important resources, including a new program launched this fall to help increase campus safety.
Text-a-Tip allows students, faculty and staff to send anonymous tips about non-emergency security concerns by text or email message from...
