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November 30, 2015
Christopher Ramirez didn’t plan on a teaching career; he had aspirations of being a filmmaker. The first-generation college student from Riverside — who had never picked up a camera before setting foot on the UC Santa Cruz campus — received a bachelor’s degree in film and...
November 30, 2015
Professor Linda Hirst, with the School of Natural Sciences, has been elected to the executive council of GSOFT, the new Topical Group on Soft Matter in the American Physical Society (APS), the world's largest organization of physicists.
“This is a big honor and is very exciting,”...
November 30, 2015
On most weekdays, you’ll find Student Employment Coordinator Phyllis Enea in the Center for Professional and Career Advancement, assisting students and training managers throughout the hiring process.
In the event of an emergency on campus, however, Enea springs into action as a building...
November 30, 2015
UC Merced staff members and administrators encouraged about 400 Le Grand High School ninth- through 12th-grade students to aim for a University of California education.
They visited the school Nov. 19 as part of Achieve UC, a systemwide effort to deliver a simple message to students: College, and...
November 20, 2015
UC Merced is rapidly rising among the nation’s top universities, as evidenced by the campus’s growing number of appearances on national and statewide “best schools” lists.
As the campus celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and looks toward its next phase of growth, at...
November 20, 2015
Time is running out for faculty and staff members to make selections or changes to their UC benefits for 2016.
Open Enrollment, the annual opportunity for employees to review their benefits to make sure they have the best coverage to suit their needs, ends at 5 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 24). Changes made...
November 19, 2015
After receiving approval from two of its key committees, the UC Board of Regents approved UC Merced’s 2020 Project late Thursday afternoon.
In a vote that was initially scheduled for Friday, Nov. 20, the Regents approved the campus’s proposal to double its physical capacity by 2020...
November 17, 2015
The recent tragedy in Paris highlights the need to respond quickly when emergencies occur internationally.
UC Merced’s Risk Services office oversees the coordination of the university’s travel emergency response process. Risk Services can work with departments to help ensure the safety...
November 17, 2015
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources Brian Powell has been hosting a series of brown-bag lunches with employees, and the next one is scheduled for Dec. 17 in the Redwood conference room at the Castle Commerce Center.
The informal, one-hour sessions are from noon to 1 p.m., and the format...
November 17, 2015
The University of California Press announced in October the publication of five inaugural titles in its new Luminos open-access publishing program.
Employing what the UC Press describes as the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as its traditional publishing...
