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October 5, 2015
Monica Sozinho, events coordinator for the School of Natural Sciences, was happy to join the newest UC campus, in part because it’s in the San Joaquin Valley and she grew up in Laton, in the south Valley, but also because she’s a UC graduate herself.
Sozinho worked in retail marketing...
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...
October 5, 2015
Help UC Merced be recognized as the coolest campus in the UC system by signing up now to participate in the University of California’s inaugural Cool Campus Challenge.
The challenge is a competition between all 10 UC campuses to motivate and reward staff and faculty members and students for...
October 2, 2015
University of California President Janet Napolitano learned about UC Merced’s outreach to local high school students and efforts to support the UC system’s Global Food and Carbon Neutrality initiatives during a visit to Merced on Oct. 1.
Napolitano spent the morning at Golden Valley...
October 2, 2015
UC Merced’s latest foray into the community, the Venture Lab, officially opens Oct. 15, but program members started work there weeks ago.
“The Venture Lab is about channeling university innovation into the creation of new businesses,” Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and...
October 2, 2015
While many young women her age are thinking about their favorite shoes or who they’ll go with to the winter formal, Callie Nance, 15, is thinking about her favorite science organizations and her future as a physicist.
That’s why the Dinner with a Scientist event at UC Merced last week...
September 30, 2015
UC Merced’s 2014 campus security report is available online.
This report is compiled by the UC Merced Department of Public Safety in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, and is intended to share important crime statistics and campus...
September 25, 2015
Campus community members now have another way to get around town — or out of town, if they don’t have access to their own vehicles — with the arrival of Zipcar car-sharing service at UC Merced.
Zipcar launched Sept. 24. It’s a membership service that offers users access to...
September 25, 2015
Albert Vasquez is putting to use his more than 30 years of experience in law enforcement and administration as UC Merced’s first assistant vice chancellor for campus and public safety and second police chief.
Vasquez’s dual role, which began Aug. 17, allows him to combine environmental...
September 25, 2015
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources Brian Powell is hosting a series of brown bag lunches with employees, and the next one is scheduled for Oct. 8 in the Suite M Conference Room at The Promenade.
The informal, one-hour sessions are from noon to 1 p.m., and the format is similar...
