News
October 19, 2015
The campus community, along with more than 500,000 people from Merced County and six other counties in the Central Valley South region, participated in the “Great California ShakeOut” drill Oct. 15.
The disaster drills began in 2008 in California to remind individuals to "drop,...
October 16, 2015
UC Merced is one of nearly 150 public and private sector organizations that answered the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics’ 25th anniversary call to action.
The campus has committed more than $750,000 through foundation support to the Gateway Scholars Program,...
October 9, 2015
The open enrollment period for benefits is just around the corner.
Open enrollment — which begins at 8 a.m. Oct. 29 and closes at 5 p.m. Nov. 24 — is the designated time when employees can make changes to their benefits and elect health care and dependent care flexible spending...
October 7, 2015
More than 400,000 digital photographs, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, works of art, sound recordings, moving images and other formats are available in Calisphere, a University of California libraries' project developed and maintained by UC’s California Digital Library (CDL).
A new...
October 7, 2015
In a decades-long career, UC Merced Professor Dunya Ramicova has designed thousands of memorable costumes for stage and screen.
Soon, her renderings of those costumes will be available in the digital world and on display at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center. Both will spotlight the extensive...
October 7, 2015
Twelve new members have been appointed to the UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees.
The purpose of the 62-member board is to assist in the promotion and financial support of the university’s mission of teaching, research and public service. Among their roles as trustees, members raise and...
October 7, 2015
To commemorate Domestic Violence Awareness Month, UC Merced’s Campus, Advocacy, Resources and Education (CARE) Office is hosting events throughout October.
According to a survey by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, one in three women and one in four men have been the...
October 6, 2015
Current and prospective graduate students have new degree options at UC Merced, which recently received approval from the UC system and the WASC Senior College and University Commission for both master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology.
Sociology students at UC Merced previously could only...
October 6, 2015
The School of Natural Sciences debuted its newly designed website in late September.
The site, jointly developed by the Natural Sciences and University Communications staffs, offers multiple points of entry and is focused on making it easier for users to find the information they need in an...
October 5, 2015
Last spring, UC Merced first-year students and seniors completed the National Survey of Student Engagement.
Fourteen percent of those invited to take the survey responded. This brief report focuses on student experiences with information literacy — defined as student use of information...
