News
November 5, 2013
Plenty of people at UC Merced got real about the food they eat during the campus’s Food Day event held last month. Food Day, which was observed Oct. 24 at all UC campuses, is a national celebration and movement to encourage people to eat healthy, affordable and sustainably produced...
November 5, 2013
Seeking to combat a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease commonly found in the San Joaquin Valley, three regional institutions are uniting to improve the area's health.
The University of California, Merced, Health Sciences Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco Fresno...
October 30, 2013
Whether you are a faculty, student or staff member, it is likely you have seen Carlton Stroud’s friendly face behind the Students First Center (SFC) counter at some point.
Stroud has served as the SFC’s assistant director since January 2011. His first higher education job experience...
October 23, 2013
Two University of California, Merced, students – Viridiana Murillo and Alexandro Perez-Tovar – won first prize in their divisions at the recent Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference in San Antonio, Texas.
Nineteen UC Merced...
October 23, 2013
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, created a material that shrinks when heated, a new way of enabling a material to move using light or low-energy heat, and also discovered why that happens – findings that are featured in a paper published on the...
October 23, 2013
Did you know your smartphone can help you find your way around the UC Merced Library and learn about its resources and services?
The UC Merced Library offers the iPod Touch Library tour, a self-paced audio-visual tour of library spaces, services and resources. The tour is designed...
October 23, 2013
Open Enrollment for benefits starts at 8 a.m. Monday (Oct. 28) and continues through 5 p.m. Nov. 26. The effective date for plans in which you enroll during this period is Jan. 1, 2014.
The biggest change affecting employees involves the available selection of medical...
October 23, 2013
Reminder: Office 365 Upgrade Begins Oct. 27
UC Merced’s Office 365 service will be upgraded to the newest version starting Oct. 27. Information Technology staff members say the process could take a couple of days to propagate through all UC Merced accounts, so some users might not see...
October 22, 2013
Read the latest issue of Looking Forward, the systemwide bimonthly electronic newsletter about the UCPath project. The October/November issue includes:
A story about the UCPath Health Check, a tool that summarizes the status of all aspects of the project and more
Facts and figures that...
October 22, 2013
Today is the last day to cast your vote for a slogan that will promote UC Merced’s Smoke and Tobacco Free Policy that goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2014.
Approximately 75 people submitted slogans and a committee of students and staff members selected the top 10 finalists. Voters are asked to...
