News
March 15, 2016
UC Merced’s Pride Week kicks off March 28.
The weeklong celebration is hosted by Lambda Alliance and LGBTQ+ Initiatives in the Office of Student Life. It’s a collaborative effort to affirm the LGBT+ community by providing recreational, social and support services and learning...
March 14, 2016
Many studies have shown that raising cattle and pigs for food is hard on the environment, and fish has long been considered a better alternative.
But the work of UC Merced graduate student Brandi McKuin indicates that because of emissions, fishing for large fish like tuna warms the climate just as...
March 11, 2016
In Fall 2014, 35 percent of first-year students completed the New Student Survey (NSS), which requested information about their educational plans, academic habits, academic obstacles and use of campus services.
In a previous report, Institutional Research and Decision Support (IRDS) combined NSS...
March 9, 2016
Even without all the industrial and technological growth that has accelerated climate change, humans can — and do — dramatically impact ecosystems.
A new paper in Nature Communications, co-authored by UC Merced Professor Marilyn Fogel, indicates early humans were responsible for the...
March 3, 2016
UC Merced’s Office of Campus Climate is accepting proposals for projects that contribute to and enhance the campus’s culture as an equitable and inclusive place to study, conduct research and work.
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Grant proposal program seeks to create and sustain a...
March 2, 2016
UC Merced staff members developed projects that recently earned two District VII Awards of Excellence from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
CASE supports alumni relations, communications, development and marketing professionals at educational institutions worldwide....
March 2, 2016
The latest entry in the Discover UC Merced video series debuted last week. The student featured this time is Jessica Rivas, who had intended to stay at UC Merced for two years, then transfer.
She fell in love with some of the things that make UC Merced unique, including the campus's connection...
March 2, 2016
In his first faculty position, in his first year at UC Merced, Professor Dong Li has won his first grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and it’s a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
“I’m really honored,” said Li, who works on...
March 2, 2016
The UC Merced women's basketball team won its second consecutive Cal-Pac Conference championship Tuesday night (March 1), with a 76-56 victory in the conference tournament title game on the road against the California Maritime Academy.
After scoring just eight points in the first quarter, the...
March 2, 2016
The Office of Information Technology provides audio-visual support for campus-related events.
Support services — including sound amplification, theatrical lighting, and computer and video projection — are free to any faculty and staff member and student with a UCMNetID.
To learn...
