News
May 21, 2015
As reported in the April 24 issue of Panorama, UC Merced staff members will soon use Halogen, a new online performance appraisal system, to complete their annual job evaluations for the 2014-15 appraisal period.
The first trainings sessions for supervisors and employees are scheduled for June 2...
May 21, 2015
Researcher Makenzie Provorse parlayed her passion for computational chemistry into a position as UC Merced’s second Chancellor’s Postdoctoral fellow.
As a runner up for the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship — a 2-year-old program started by UC President Janet Napolitano...
May 21, 2015
As the instructional laboratories manager for the School of Engineering, Sergio Pineda’s job is to oversee the labs students use.
Pineda and his colleague, lab coordinator Salvador Diaz, are tasked with making sure the school’s instructional laboratories are stocked with the materials...
May 21, 2015
The winners of UC Merced’s 2015 Staff Excellence Awards were announced last Friday (May 22) during the campus’s annual Staff Appreciation Week picnic.
The awards acknowledge and celebrate exceptional achievements of five staff members. Each recipient receives $500 and a crystal award....
May 20, 2015
CAMP Registration Ends May 29
The Career Advancement Mentorship Program (CAMP) matches experienced staff members with colleagues who seek mentoring and professional development.
The program starts July 1 and runs through June 30, 2016. Staff members interested in becoming mentors or mentees ...
May 20, 2015
As reported in the Oct. 10 issue of Panorama, UC Merced faculty members have been working diligently since 2013 to identify the core group of thematic areas that will serve as the strategic focus of UC Merced’s research and educational pursuits in the years ahead.
Following extensive...
May 19, 2015
When Miguel Lopez was considering where he wanted to go to college, UC Merced was at the forefront.
“I didn’t want to pass up the opportunity to help start new traditions and be a part of one of the first classes at UC Merced,” Lopez said. “At the same time, I wanted to go...
May 18, 2015
The UC Merced Library is involved in an ongoing project to digitize approximately 2,000 illustrations of costume designs by Professor Dunya Ramicova, with the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts.
This project is an attempt to document a singular, decades-long body of work. When...
May 15, 2015
With the academic year completed, Accounting Services says it’s time to prepare for another ending: the close of the 2014-15 fiscal year.
The end of the fiscal year is the time to prepare for the closing of UC Merced’s general ledger as prescribed by the State of California. The...
May 13, 2015
Earlier this spring, 52 percent of UC Merced students who reside in on-campus housing completed a survey about their experiences.
Key goals of Housing and Residence Life’s staff and programs are to facilitate community and mutual respect among residents, as well as to prepare residents...
