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2016-2017 Academic Year Fellowships Awarded

May 10, 2016

Graduate Division is pleased to announce the following fellowships and scholarships that have recently been awarded. Unless otherwise noted, all awards are for the 2016-2017 academic year. Our congratulations to the successful applicants! Fellowship, Scholarship, or Award Awardee...

Student Laura Showalter is Commited to Excellence

May 9, 2016

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the spring 2016 issue of UC Merced Magazine. Laura Showalter will represent the schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering as student speaker at this Sunday’s commencement ceremony. “Ambitious” isn’t a good enough word for Laura Showalter. “High-...

Grad Student Startup Helps Preemies Breathe

May 9, 2016

A heated blanket developed by UC Merced-based startup St. Vincent’s Solutions won’t help babies get to sleep – but it could reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia for infants in neonatal intensive care. Rather than wrapping the infant, the silicon blanket wraps the tubes that...

Study: For Moms and Teens, Emotions Matter During Conflict

May 5, 2016

Parents who reciprocate their children’s negative emotions are less likely to find satisfying resolutions to conflict, according to new research from the University of California, Merced. In a study published online today (May 5) in the journal Emotion, a team led by UC Merced Professor Alexandra...

Greening the Campus Earns Gold in Sustainability Ratings

May 4, 2016

The UC Merced campus is getting greener and earning gold as it does — gold ratings, that is. UC Merced improved its rating through the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), a rigorous review process...

Anita Hill Named 10th Recipient of Spendlove Prize

May 3, 2016

Anita Hill’s public testimony during the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991 raised national awareness of sexual harassment and led to many changes in workplace laws and practices to protect both women and men from harassment. At a ceremony this fall, 25...

New Supercomputing Cluster to Expand Campus Capabilities

May 2, 2016

A proposal to conduct high-performance computing across science and engineering disciplines has won UC Merced and Professor Christine Isborn a research computing cluster that will be used for a variety of projects across campus. Each year, Silicon Mechanics, a Washington-based provider of servers,...

Awards Ceremony Honors Campus Leaders

April 29, 2016

Each spring, the Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center recognizes and celebrates students, staff and faculty members, and student organizations demonstrating outstanding leadership to the campus and the community. Thirty campus members or student organizations were recognized across 24...

Innovate to Grow is Fertile Ground for University and Community Entrepreneurs

April 29, 2016

As a senior engineering student, Michael Urner selected a capstone project he related to. Little did he know that his 2013 Innovation and Design Clinic (IDC) project would lead him to start his own companies through the UC Merced Venture Lab and patent his team’s work — equipment that could save...

NIH Funds Research Into Stem Cells, Bone Disease

April 28, 2016

A new study from UC Merced Professor Jennifer O. Manilay promises to shed new light on how bone diseases can affect the maintenance of healthy blood and immune cell development throughout life. Funded by a $434,000 grant over three years from the National Institutes of Health — specifically the...