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Campus Hosts First UC-Wide Chess Tournament

April 26, 2016

Chess players from across the UC system— ranging from beginners to international masters — convened for the 2016 UC Chess Championship held April 23 at the Joseph Edward Gallo Recreation Center gymnasium. The UC Merced Chess Club played host to the first UC-wide chess tournament, which was...

UC Merced Receives $5 Million for Interdisciplinary Research Center

April 26, 2016

Researchers at the University of California, Merced, won a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how biological matter like proteins or cells come together to perform specific tasks, effectively behaving as machines. The research — funded over five years through the...

Internship Program Enhances Students’ Academic Experiences

April 25, 2016

Last fall, the Division of Student Affairs and the Office of Undergraduate Education launched an internship program with the goal of providing undergraduate students an opportunity to build experience and skills related to their career ambitions and to integrate them with their academic learning....

UC Merced Student a Winner at Clinton Event

April 22, 2016

Besides attending Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) with 1,200 other college students from around the world, UC Merced student Hoaithi Dang helped his team win the weekend’s “Code for Impact” event in partnership with the Clinton Health Matters Initiative. The ninth annual CGI U meeting...

Psychology Student Earns Ford Predoctoral Fellowship

April 20, 2016

Doctoral student Patricia Cabral, who studies adolescent health risk behaviors in the Psychological Sciences graduate group, recently won a highly-competitive Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship — the first of its kind awarded to a UC Merced graduate student. The $72,000 fellowship will fund...

Downtown Center Focuses on Child Development

April 20, 2016

Parents, caregivers and community members in the Merced area have a new resource for information about childhood development and disorders. The UC Merced Alliance for Child and Family Health and Development, in downtown Merced, is a place where people can make connections, find resources and learn...

Eat, Hydrate and Learn at This Year’s Earth Day Event

April 19, 2016

Most people probably don’t think about food when considering how to celebrate Earth Day. But the UC Merced Student Sustainability Council wants to help people understand how what we eat and where it comes from is connected to sustainable living. That’s why food is the theme of this year’s Earth Day...

Psychology Grad Student Wins Campus’ First Ford Predoctoral Fellowship

April 18, 2016

Doctoral student Patricia Cabral’s research has attracted a lot of attention lately. Cabral, who studies adolescent health risk behaviors (HRBs) in the Psychological Sciences group, recently won a highly-competitive Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship — the first of its kind...

For GradSLAM Champion, Research Is Personal

April 12, 2016

Arturo Durazo, winner of this year’s UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, has a personal connection to his research. The fifth-year Ph.D. candidate studies the psychological effects of debilitating illnesses. Most recently, he has been researching the way thoughts and emotions guide behaviors...

Study Shows How Plants Could Adapt to Changing Climate

April 5, 2016

If you want to understand how plant populations will respond as the climate changes, just examine the plants in different locations. That’s one of the conclusions drawn by UC Merced School of Natural Sciences Professor Jason Sexton in a new paper that’s part of a special...