News
March 24, 2015
The deadline to submit an idea for the Chancellor’s Innovation Awards is March 31.
The chancellor is looking for ideas and suggestions that could help increase efficiency, enhance working environments or improve customer service.
Chancellor's Innovation Awards is a new program for staff...
March 24, 2015
The University of California's Sautter Award program, honoring innovation in information technology, is now accepting nominations through May 15 for technology projects that advance the UC’s teaching, research, health care and public service missions.
The program presents up to three...
March 24, 2015
In 2014, the Office of Research and Economic Development began a comprehensive review of the campus’s approach to addressing the commercialization of concepts produced by the research of our faculty members and students.
This review has resulted in a new organization at UC Merced that is...
March 23, 2015
The UC Merced Library has launched a fund to support open-access publishing costs for UC Merced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
The primary goals of the program are to support emerging scholars interested in making their research open to the public, reshape current scholarly...
March 23, 2015
Moral decisions can be influenced by tracking moment-to-moment eye movements during deliberation, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study conducted by UC Merced Professor Michael Spivey and researchers from Lund University in...
March 23, 2015
UC Merced has spent the past decade blazing a trail as the nation’s first research university of the 21st century, and its students are no different. In May, the campus’s 10th graduating class will hear keynote addresses from academic leaders who are equally innovative and ...
March 23, 2015
Ellie Jorritsma has been helping UC Merced run smoothly since before most of the campus was even built.
After years as an active stay-at-home mom, she rejoined the workforce in 2003, when she was hired by UC Merced as a receptionist at the Castle Commerce Center in Atwater. About a year later,...
March 23, 2015
Chancellor Dorothy Leland recently outlined for the UC Board of Regents a new development strategy that will more than double the physical capacity of campus facilities by 2020.
The planned growth is an effort to accommodate record numbers of student applicants, increase regional and statewide...
March 23, 2015
New Online Performance-Management System
Human Resources announced last week the upcoming launch of Halogen, an online performance-management system that will be used as UC Merced transitions to a performance-based, merit compensation model for staff. HR is working with Information Technology to...
