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December 16, 2014
Cohort Completes Financial Management Training
The UC Merced Financial Management Certification Program (FMCP) has completed its second year of financial management training for campus business and administrative officers.
The FMCP supports the professional development of campus...
December 16, 2014
On Dec. 2, UC Merced alumni, parents, staff, faculty members and friends of the campus came together for the first #GivingTuesdayUCMerced, in an effort to create a positive effect on the lives of students.
In all, nearly 170 people donated more than $11,000 in just 24 hours. Thanks to a three-to-...
December 16, 2014
A group of students in the most recent School of Engineering capstone design course at UC Merced devised a sweet solution to a local farm’s harvesting problem — one that is reaping long-term benefits for the farm and the students.
D&S Farms, a multi-generation family farming...
December 16, 2014
Faculty and staff members in the market for new cars this month might want to take advantage of a limited-time, $1,000 discount for UC employees on the Nissan LEAF, a 100 percent electric, zero-emission car.
The discount is available to all UC employees and is part of the staff engagement efforts...
December 15, 2014
The deadline to submit questions or comments for the Winter Town Hall is noon today (Dec. 19).
The Winter Town Hall provides staff and faculty members an opportunity to receive important updates and directly engage with the chancellor and campus administrators about topics of interest at UC...
December 5, 2014
Two UC Merced faculty members have earned publication awards from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Professor Yihsu Chen, with the School of Engineering, the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, won...
December 5, 2014
Most archaeologists have to dig in the field, but Professor Holley Moyes digs deeper than most. Her research takes her more than 400 feet into the Belize underground, where ancient Maya caves hold evidence of rituals to appease gods of fertility and rain.
That research is the cover story in...
December 3, 2014
Join Chancellor Dorothy Leland and campus leadership for the next Town Hall meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Jan. 14 in The Dr. Lakireddy Auditorium, COB 102.
Town Hall meetings offer faculty and staff members an opportunity to receive important updates about the campus and to directly engage with the...
December 3, 2014
In the past few weeks, you’ve heard the UC Merced Library talking a lot about open access and eScholarship, but did you know that eScholarship includes shared manuscript and peer-review management systems?
EScholarship, a publishing platform powered by the California Digital Library,...
December 2, 2014
Professor Henry Forman has earned the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Free Radical Biology & Medicine. Forman has served for two years as the group’s president and reviews editor, and two years before that as president-elect.
This has been a busy and exciting year for...
