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April 27, 2016
The 2016 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards program launches on May 13, and staff members are encouraged to submit team proposals that improve UC Merced’s work environment.
The program, which Chancellor Dorothy Leland debuted in 2015, rewards proposals that improve processes, customer...
April 27, 2016
UC Merced Staff Assembly will seek nominations for its 2016 Staff Citation of Excellence Award program in June.
Each year, five UC Merced staff members are recognized and celebrated for their outstanding service to the university. The timing of the awards is shifting so award recipients can be...
April 27, 2016
UC Merced’s Human Resources is sponsoring three informational webcasts on performance management for employees.
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources Brian Powell selected topics based on employee feedback received during his listening tour last fall.
The first webcast, held...
April 26, 2016
The UC Merced Police Department (UCMPD) recently honored two of its members for outstanding work in the field of campus and public safety.
Reannon Cook was recognized as UCMPD’s Public Safety Dispatcher of the Year.
“Reannon consistently upholds the values of courtesy, respect and...
April 26, 2016
Richard Gomez wants to fill the Central Valley with art.
The Valley native has spent most of his life in California — save for a summer studying art in Paris in 2006 — and earned his bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Barbara and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Academy of Art...
April 25, 2016
The drone research lab at UC Merced has catapulted the campus to the leading edge of the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) field, and now the campus has been chosen as the new hub for UC systemwide policies, procedures and training protocols.
School of Engineering doctoral candidate Brandon Stark...
April 25, 2016
Considering the close ties between UC Merced and Yosemite National Park, it should be no surprise that several members of the campus community — including Chancellor Dorothy Leland — have been named Yosemite Centennial Ambassadors.
Leland and students Alejandra Guzman and Moses Chun...
April 25, 2016
UC Merced Professor Nicola Lercari is leading an effort to preserve, through 3-D renderings, the deteriorating ghost town of Bodie.
Thanks to $60,000 in seed funding from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Lercari and his team will be continuing and...
April 25, 2016
Parents, caregivers and community members in the Merced area have a new resource for information about childhood development and disorders.
The UC Merced Alliance for Child and Family Health and Development, in downtown Merced, is a place where people can make connections, find resources and learn...
April 25, 2016
A new study from UC Merced Professor Jennifer O. Manilay promises to shed new light on how bone diseases can affect the maintenance of healthy blood and immune cell development throughout life.
Funded by a $434,000 grant over three years from the National Institutes of Health — specifically...
