News
February 11, 2015
The UC Merced Graduate Division has launched the campus's inaugural GradSLAM! event, in which Ph.D. students hone their public speaking skills competing against their peers on campus in a research presentation competition. The winner will compete in the first UC systemwide GradSLAM! competition...
February 11, 2015
Story Update on Feb. 13, 3 p.m. :
Anthem offering identity theft protection to current, former members after recent cyber attack
Anthem is offering identity repair assistance and credit monitoring services to current members and former members enrolled in 2004 or later in response to the recent...
February 10, 2015
UC Merced staff members: If you have a novel idea that improves how vital tasks get done, boosts the work environment or enhances customer service, the chancellor wants to hear from you.
Chancellor Dorothy Leland recently announced the launch of the Chancellor’s Innovation Awards, a new...
February 9, 2015
New Director of Sustainability Colleen McCormick — the campus’s first — is taking a fresh look at some of UC Merced’s oldest ambitions, including the Triple Zero commitment.
She joined the campus Dec. 1, coming from Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, where...
February 9, 2015
Several UC Merced faculty members will play important roles in a new UC systemwide effort to study the ecological effects of climate change across varied ecosystems.
Funded by a $1.9 million President's Research Catalyst Awards grant from UC President Janet Napolitano and led by UC Santa Cruz...
January 28, 2015
How well your sensitive information is safeguarded and what protocols your department has in place to protect the privacy and data of faculty, staff and students — these are some concerns to think about and take action on during Data Privacy Month.
Data Privacy Month, which...
January 27, 2015
Mark Aldenderfer, dean of the UC Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, is a guest lecturer this weekend at Kshitij, the annual “techno-management fest” of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
IIT Kharagpur, the oldest and largest of the Indian...
January 27, 2015
If James Leonard looks familiar, you’re not experiencing déjà vu.
Leonard works in University Communications as director of news and social media, and it’s his second time working at UC Merced. He first joined the campus in 2010 as a senior public information representative and...
January 27, 2015
What makes a government decide to use torture in its interrogations? How do those decisions differ when terrorism is suspected? Once torture starts, how can it be stopped?
These questions are at heart of the research being conducted by political scientist Courtenay Conrad, a professor in...
January 27, 2015
UC Merced has worked closely with community partners at the local, regional and state levels since before the campus opened in 2005, and that collaboration has contributed much to the university’s success in education and innovation. This month, that commitment to community collaboration...
