News
February 27, 2013
The Jan. 18 topping-off ceremony for the Science and Engineering Building 2 started 2013 on a high note. The new building will fulfill our long-standing need for more STEM teaching and research laboratory space. But it will already be full the day we move in.
As I contemplate the future of UC...
February 26, 2013
As assistant to the assistant vice chancellor of Business and Financial Services (BFS), Atalie Womble has her hands in a lot of projects. While her first priority is scheduling Monir Ahmed’s appointments and handling his correspondence, the majority of Womble’s time is spent servicing...
February 25, 2013
UC Merced history Professor Mario Sifuentez delivered a lecture Feb. 18 at the University of Alabama to kickoff the opening of “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964.”
The traveling Smithsonian exhibit tells the story of the largest guest worker program in U.S. history. It...
February 25, 2013
A pioneering American novelist and a former California Poet Laureate will be the keynote speakers at two April events being organized by graduate students and faculty in World Cultures.
John Rechy has written 15 books, including 1963's "City of Night," which explored the gay hustling...
February 25, 2013
New Employee Orientation, Online Resources
New employee orientation is today (March 1) from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in KL 232. The next orientation is April 5. For more information, please visit the new employee orientation page.
The first few weeks in a new job can be challenging. To...
February 25, 2013
Tax Season Updates from UC Merced’s Tax Services
As the April 15 deadline to file federal and state tax returns approaches, UC Merced’s Tax Services offers the following reminders and updates:
Delayed federal filing for certain tax forms to include Form 8863 (began on Feb. 14...
February 22, 2013
When the Castle research facility made the switch from fluorescent lights to more energy-efficient ones, campus Recycling Coordinator Matt Hirota was left with 2,180 pounds of lighting ballasts that had to go.
The local landfill would not accept the ballasts and referred Hirota to a chemical...
February 22, 2013
Peek in the windows at the Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab sometime. You’ll probably see students flying small remote-controlled vehicles at all hours of the day and night.
Sometimes the students are having so much fun they have to be pushed to go home and sleep....
February 22, 2013
Faculty and students will get to show off their important work during the campus's annual celebration of research, UC Merced Research Week, from March 4 through 8, on campus and in downtown Merced.
Research at UC Merced encompasses cancer; diabetes; climate change; water, soil and air...
February 22, 2013
The School of Engineering offers congratulations to Professor Paul Maglio, who has been named the editor in chief of the journal Service Science.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the largest professional society in the world for professionals in...
