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Women’s Soccer Star, Campus Leader Wraps Four Fulfilling Years

April 9, 2018
When prospective student-athletes visit UC Merced, soccer standout Abbie-Leigh Meneses is among the first people they meet. Not long ago, Meneses was a recruit herself, touring the University of California’s 10th and newest campus. She fell in love with UC Merced and its central location within...

Finalists to Vie for GradSLAM Championship April 12

April 5, 2018
Ten graduate students advanced to the final round of UC Merced’s annual GradSLAM! competition and will vie for a chance to represent the campus and compete with graduate students from across the University of California system. The campus community and the general public are welcome to attend...

Feeling a Little Puckish? Get Thee to Yosemite for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

April 5, 2018
Desperate lovers, a fairy king and queen, a woman with a donkey’s head and a scamp with Cupid’s arrow in flower form are taking over Yosemite National Park on Earth Day weekend. Highlighting UC Merced’s special partnership with Yosemite, Shakespeare in Yosemite enters its second...

Study: Drug-Resistant Cancer Cleverer Than Imagined

April 4, 2018
Precision medicine offers hope after a life-changing cancer diagnosis. But some cancers that initially respond to targeted chemotherapy become treatment-resistant — and the tumor itself is the culprit. Now, new research from UC Merced and UC Irvine is helping explain how therapy-resistant cancers...

Career-Minded Students Get a Helping Hand

April 2, 2018
Senior mechanical engineering major Kelvin Cheung from San Francisco got a head start on his career exploration during his first year at UC Merced. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) career specialist Robert Goodman one of four career specialists for the Center for Career and...

Helmrich Awarded Delta Science Fellowship

March 29, 2018

Ma Kelley Memorial Golf Tournament to Raise Funds for Student Athletes

March 28, 2018
The 21st annual Ma Kelley Memorial Golf Tournament will be held April 13 at the Turlock Golf and Country Club and proceeds benefit UC Merced student athletes. Tickets for the 18-hole tournament are $150 for an individual or $600 for a team of four. The fee includes the cart, green fee, range balls...

Hart Elected Lifetime Fellow of Ecological Society

March 28, 2018

Lecturer Honored for New Book on Pedagogy

March 27, 2018
Lecturer Iris D. Ruiz, Ph.D., won Honorable Mention in the 2018 Outstanding Book Awards given by the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s (CCCC). Ruiz’s award is in the Monograph category for her book “Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic...

Study: Kitchen and Culture Clash When Promoting Healthy Eating to Latinos

March 22, 2018
Latinos suffer from some of the highest obesity rates in the nation. Health officials have tried to intervene with messaging that encourages healthy eating and healthy behavior, but these campaigns have met with little success. Now a new study from UC Merced public health Professor Susana Ramirez...

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