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September 25, 2013
The University of California began Promise for Education, a six-week crowd-funding campaign to engage students, faculty, alumni, celebrities, businesses, politicians and supporters in a novel drive to raise money for UC student scholarships.
The Promise for Education model is simple. People make a...
September 25, 2013
People routinely encounter familiar components from everyday life in new combinations, such as when a co-worker takes on a new role or a sentence uses a word in a new way.
We typically excel at interpreting these new experiences, but researchers do not yet understand the neurological basis of...
September 24, 2013
This is a very exciting and critical time in our institution’s young history. Together, we have an opportunity to build upon the vision of our founding faculty, staff and students. I am honored to be part of the UC Merced community.
Since January, we have laid the groundwork to move...
September 24, 2013
Faculty, staff, students and visitors at UC Merced will breathe easier come Jan. 1 when the campus becomes one of the more than 1,100 colleges and universities nationwide to implement a smoke- and tobacco-free environment.
All University of California campuses and institutions are going smoke and...
September 24, 2013
Office of Technology Transfer Administrative Officer Sonal Gadre has been with UC Merced since 2012. She and her husband, Anand, and their daughter moved here when he accepted a job as director of the stem cell foundry. He previously worked at SUNY, Albany, N.Y., so coming here has been a big...
September 19, 2013
The UC Merced Police Mentor Program’s third annual Light Up the Lantern event will be held at 5 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Library Lantern. The Police Mentor Program operates solely on grant funding and fundraising donations. The fundraiser is held on campus to thank all who are involved in the...
September 13, 2013
Roderic Park, former acting chancellor of UC Merced and a major campus planner and benefactor, passed away on Sept. 6. He was 81.
A distinguished professor, researcher and administrator who spent most of his career at UC Berkeley, Park was named acting chancellor of UC Merced in September 2006, as...
September 11, 2013
An exhibit coordinated by a UC Merced professor weaves together music, literature, photography, video and oral history to tell stories of the workers who keep the region’s economy moving.
"Central Valley Threads: Picking Out Strands of Life and Art in the Central Valley" opens at...
September 11, 2013
September is National Preparedness Month, and UC Merced is observing it by helping the campus community prepare for emergencies and disasters of all types. Preparedness includes developing business continuity plans.
A business continuity plan ensures your department or unit has a prescribed...
September 11, 2013
Six students with close ties to the San Joaquin Valley are on track to becoming physicians as part of the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (PRIME). The students, who began their medical studies recently in Sacramento and represent the third cohort in the program, are:...
