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Homecoming Offers Opportunities for Community to Celebrate University

October 14, 2019
If you are filled to the brim with Bobcat pride and eager to show your love for UC Merced, look no further than this weekend’s Homecoming celebration. Homecoming runs Friday through Sunday, Oct. 18-20, with the second annual Downtown Block Party kicking off festivities Friday night. The event will...

Campus Hosts Events for Emotional Wellness Month

October 9, 2019
Doing well in school isn’t just about performing well academically and the Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) and Health Promotion understand that. In order to help students perform their best in all aspects of life, CAPS and Health Promotion are teaming up to host a variety of...

Students Engineer Art from Trash for Annual Yosemite Facelift Event

October 9, 2019
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, or in this case art. Each year Global Arts Studies Program Lecturer Richard Gomez brings students to Yosemite to create an art installation from nothing other than trash found in the park. This project is part of the Yosemite Facelift initiative, an...

Valley Fever the Focus of Public Event

October 7, 2019
UC Merced is offering the opportunity for Valley residents to learn what clinicians and researchers know about Valley fever, an airborne fungal infection that can have serious, even fatal, consequences for people across California and the Southwest. A multi-campus Valley fever summit in the...

Nobile Awarded Kamangar Family Endowed Chair

October 7, 2019
Professor Clarissa Nobile has been named the newest Kamangar Family Endowed Chair in Biological Sciences and will be honored at a private ceremony with the donors this fall. “I am so pleased and honored to have been named to this chair,” Nobile said. “Thank you for investing in me and the future...

Inaugural Class Graduates from Gallo MIST Master of Management Program

October 3, 2019
When Alyssa Young returned to Long Beach after earning her bachelor’s degree in psychology from UC Merced in 2017, she didn’t imagine she would be back in Merced just one year later. But when she saw a post on the UC Merced Facebook page about the new Master of Management (MM) degree offered by the...

New Teaching Professor Title Recognizes Work, Expertise of Faculty Group

October 3, 2019
Roughly 20 faculty members at UC Merced have new titles this semester that more accurately reflects their work: Teaching professor. The working title change involves the group of faculty in the L(P)SOE series (Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment or Lecturer with Security of Employment)....

National Writing Project Kicks Off Under New Leadership

September 30, 2019
It’s a new school year, which also happens to be a new chapter of the UC Merced Writing Project. The UC Merced Writing Project is a local affiliation of the National Writing Project, which aims to improve writing skills among students as well as the art of teaching writing among educators...

Alumna Tackles Eco-Evolutionary Research on the California Coast

September 26, 2019
Lauren Schiebelhut credits the support and opportunities afforded to her at UC Merced with opening the door to her research career. Schiebelhut — a first-generation transfer student from Fresno — earned a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from UC Merced in May 2009 but was uncertain about...

Physicists Revealing Mysteries of Biological Fluids

September 26, 2019
A group of physics researchers from UC Merced have revealed that a fluid made from biological molecules found in human cells behaves much like ordinary fluids that are mixed externally, such as paint. Except in the case of the biological fluids, no external mixing is required — it’s mixing itself....

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