UC Merced News Archives

The Valley Crisis Center will host a free viewing of the film "TROOP 1500," a documentary about young Girl Scouts and their incarcerated mothers, today at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center.

The lack of jobs in Merced has taken center stage for the City Council race as candidates try to persuade voters they can lead the community out of its economic malaise.

Getting Obama to speak on campus will be no easy feat: She prefers to garner campus-wide support for her speaking events.

Cal State Stanislaus president proposes how universities can adapt to new fiscal reality.

New economic estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau show what most Valley residents already knew: Things were worse in 2008 than they were in 2007.

The Clovis Unified School District has wisely taken advantage of millions of dollars in state funds to build career technology programs at all of its high schools.

There is a dire need for more frequent transportation between UC Merced and the city.

The walk from Applegate Park to UC Merced won't be anything like the nightly trek of children "commuters" in and around Gulu, Uganda.

A recent grant from the U.S. Justice Department will enable the University of California at Merced Police Department to launch programs aimed at fostering a safe campus environment.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger briefly visited Merced on Monday, stopping to highlight a package of new laws related to the home foreclosure crisis and meet campus leaders at UC Merced.

The first stretch of Campus Parkway, the long-awaited expressway that will connect Highway 99 to the University of California at Merced, could be open to traffic by the end of the year.

Citing hefty cuts in state funding, the Merced College board of trustees decided last week to lay off 15 employees.

"This is Christine McFadden. I think my ex-husband has killed my children." That was the 911 phone call that Merced veterinarian McFadden made on March 26, 2002.

The intellectuals behind the Merced Writers' Center are on a mission. They want to celebrate, encourage, empower and integrate the diverse communities and landscapes of the region by promoting, organizing and implementing literary projects, readings, events and workshops.

During a commencement speech Saturday to the inaugural class of the University of California at Merced, first lady Michelle Obama urged graduates to "dream big and think broadly" about life.

Merced will host its own independent film series beginning tonight and lasting through October.

October 18, 2009- The College Republicans at UC Merced, will be hosting a premiere of Not Evil, Just Wrong, a movie which reveals the true cost of global warming hysteria.

PROFESSIONAL schools are one thing. No California taxpayer particularly expects that a graduate student heading toward a lucrative career - a future M.D. at tiny and tony UC San Francisco, say, or a future lawyer from Boalt Hall - should pay exactly the same tuition as a budding comp lit professor in a master's program at UC San Diego.

I'm saddened by this report from the Merced Sun-Star : The founding chancellor of UC Merced , Carol Tomlinson-Keasey , who saw the institution through its infancy, died Saturday of complications related to cancer, according to a statement from the university.

Scientists at UC Merced received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Thursday to develop new techniques for duplicating human actions in the virtual world.

Several people have reported seeing a bear near U.C. Merced. The sightings have occurred in North Merced, not far from the university campus.

UC Merced this week stepped closer to opening its prized medical school. With cash in hand from the feds, campus leaders said they can establish an undergraduate program that lays the groundwork for the medical school.

Enrollment at UC Merced this fall surpassed official estimates, the school announced Monday afternoon.

U.C. Merced has been awarded California's highest environmental honor, for its commitment to going green.

Governor's award recognizes green practices. By DANIELLE GAINES Dgaines@mercedsun-star.com The UC Merced campus, flush with solar energy programs and Earth-friendly buildings, has been recognized once again for its environmental stewardship.

The UC Merced campus, flush with solar energy programs and Earth-friendly buildings, has been recognized once again for its environmental stewardship.