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March 25, 2013
As part of Women's History Month celebrated this month, Women’s Programs in the Office of Student Life honored 36 women during the fourth annual Outstanding Women’s Luncheon. This year's theme, developed by the National Women's History Project, was "Women Inspiring...
March 25, 2013
Retired astronaut and engineer Jose Hernandez and acclaimed author and organic farmer David Mas Masumoto will deliver keynote addresses at the University of California, Merced’s eighth commencement exercises May 18 and 19.
With more than 900 students eligible to graduate, this year marks the...
March 25, 2013
People don’t often think of deformation as a good thing.
But when it comes to biofilaments – such as strands of DNA – it’s not only good, it’s necessary for the biofilament to complete its functions. When biofilaments twist, twine, bend or loop in the ways that are...
March 22, 2013
Congratulations to John Li and Stacey Van, winners of the 2013 Undergraduate Library Research Poster Awards.
The library research competition was held in conjunction with the Office of Research poster competition that took place earlier this month during Research Week. Students who participated in...
March 21, 2013
April 15 Marks Deadline to Submit Reimbursement Claims, Documentation for 2012 Flex Spending Accounts
Employees enrolled in UC’s Flexible Spending Accounts (health and/or dependent care) in 2012 have until April 15 to submit reimbursement claim forms for eligible expenses incurred from Jan....
March 21, 2013
UC Merced biology Professor Rudy Ortiz is furthering his innovative research into diabetes with support from a major pharmaceutical company.
Ortiz's work, developing new applications for medicines used to treat the effects of insulin resistance, has been funded by Amylin Pharmaceuticals LLC, a...
March 20, 2013
UC Merced artists are sharing their best work this semester in the eighth annual Bobcat Art Show.
The exhibit runs from April 1 to May 2 and entries can be seen at the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library and the UC Merced Art Gallery in the Social Sciences and Management Building, Room 106....
March 20, 2013
International Data Group’s (IDG) Computerworld Honors Program has named UC Merced as a 2013 Laureate. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change. UC Merced received the award for its Mobile...
March 20, 2013
In his new book, "The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru," UC Merced Professor Ignacio López-Calvo uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture.
The book, published in...
March 13, 2013
As everyone who has been following the federal budget crisis knows, sequestration – $85 billion in automatic spending cuts for 2013 – took effect March 1.
It’s unclear how the situation will play out across the country, but it’s already clear that the competition for...
