News
February 4, 2014
In its inaugural intercollegiate season, the UC Merced men’s soccer team showed plenty of promise by defeating the eventual conference champions and producing the California Pacific Conference freshman player of the year.
“It was a season of firsts,” said Coach Albert Martins,...
February 4, 2014
Chris Butler, the assistant director of The Foster Family Center for Engineering Service Learning, is a campus original.
That is, he has been here since the campus opened.
He started as a student, studying environmental engineering studies with Professor Tom Harmon, and is now a staff member...
February 3, 2014
The University of California, Merced, is searching for a development team that will prove instrumental in financing and significantly expanding the campus’ size and capacity to enroll 10,000 students by 2020.
Enrollment at the newest UC campus, which opened in 2005 with 875 students, has...
February 3, 2014
An international two-day conference on the Black Arts Movement will draw world-renowned scholars, musicians and artists, and offer new scholarship and perspectives on the 1960s and 1970s movement.
The International Conference on the Black Arts Movement and Legacies, on March 1 and 2 at the...
February 3, 2014
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a Grammy-award-winning singing troupe, brings its blend of vocal harmonies to Merced as part of Arts UC Merced Presents spring event lineup.
The group performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the Art Kamangar Center at the Merced Theatre. Tickets cost between $15 and...
January 23, 2014
The University of California Office of the President announced the opening of the application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the Regents. The position's term runs July 2014 through June 2016. Applications are accepted from Jan. 24 through March 7.
The staff advisor program...
January 23, 2014
Begnining with this issue, Panorama supports classifieds ads — free of charge.
Faculty and staff can post the items by logging into Panorama using the campus's single sign-on and navigating to the web form. Each submission will be reviewed before publication and will be...
January 23, 2014
Michael Reese, recently appointed vice chancellor for the UC Merced’s Division of Business and Administrative Services (BAS), recently sat down with University Communications for a video interview.
Reese, who served as the division’s interim vice chancellor since July 2013 until his...
January 22, 2014
Changes in Human Resources
A new structure for the Human Resources department was announced earlier this month. A summary of the changes are included in this story.
New Employee Orientation on Feb. 7
The next new employee orientation is from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 7 in KL...
January 22, 2014
On Feb. 6, the UC Office of the President launches a new website designed to make life easier for faculty and staff members and retirees.
The new site, called UCnet, is the fruit of more than two years of development by UCOP’s communications team and is part of a broader strategic...