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The University of California, Merced (UC Merced), located in the San Joaquin Valley at Merced, California, is the tenth University of California campus. The campus groundbreaking ceremony was held October 25, 2002, and the first day of classes was September 6, 2005. UC Merced is the first American research university built in the 21st century. [2] UC seal assumed to be a trademark of the Regents of the University of California. ...
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Organization and governance
UC Merced is headed by a chancellor. The position was held by Carol Tomlinson-Keasey from 1999 until she resigned on August 31, 2006. She returned to teaching and research in psychology in 2007.[3] On September 21, 2006, the Regents of the University of California named Roderic B. Park, a former interim chancellor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as the acting chancellor for UC Merced.[4] After a nation-wide search, on January 17, 2007, they officially named Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang, dean of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Baskin School of Engineering to be the university's new chancellor.[5] Roderic Park remained acting chancellor until Kang took office in early March 2007. A Chancellor is the head of a university. ...
DR. CAROL TOMLINSON-KEASEY, CHANCELLOR Dr. Tomlinson-Keasey received her B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, her M.S. from Iowa State University majoring in Psychology, and her Ph. ...
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Although UC Merced is located in a rural area associated with agriculture, it emphasizes cutting edge interdisciplinary research grounded in natural science, math, and engineering. The campus takes advantage of the surrounding environment by investigating issues relating to environmental systems of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada, and of its youth by having programs in genetic research conducted in state of the art research labs. It also benefits from proximity to Silicon Valley and other major universities. Research in fields like language acquisition and cultural issues is facilitated by the highly diverse ethnic makeup of the Central Valley. This article is about Californias Central Valley. ...
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Merced operates on a semester basis rather than the quarter system for its academic term. The Berkeley campus is the only other UC campus on a semester system. An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. ...
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Academics
 The Science and Engineering Building, after completion. UC Merced has schools of engineering, natural sciences and social sciences, humanities and arts. The campus offers 17 undergraduate majors: applied mathematical sciences, bioengineering, biological sciences, chemical sciences, cognitive science, computer science and engineering, earth systems science, economics, environmental engineering, history, literatures and cultures, management, materials sciences and engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, political science, and psychology. In addition, 16 minors are offered: American studies, anthropology, arts, cognitive science, economics, history, management, natural sciences education, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, services science, sociology, Spanish, and writing. [6] For graduate-level study, UC Merced has 9 emphases: applied mathematics, biological engineering and small-scale technologies, computer and information systems, environmental systems, mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, physics and chemistry, quantitative and systems biology, social and cognitive sciences, and world cultures. [7] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 539 pixelsFull resolution (1410 × 950 pixel, file size: 510 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The Science and Engineering Building at the University of California, Merced. ...
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Kolligian Library The library was the first building to open on campus. During the Fall 2005 semester, all academic courses were conducted in the library. Its official motto is "Not what other research libraries are, what they will be." Image File history File linksMetadata Ucmlibrarymaysmall. ...
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The Library building is named for Leo and Dottie Kolligian. The first floor of the library was dedicated by Ed and Jeanne Kashian. The McFadden-Willis Reading Room is located on the fourth floor and named in honor of the McFadden and Willis children by Christine McFadden. The Library also has a technology classroom dedicated by Doris Gonella in honor of her late husband Louis, The Gonella Discovery Room.
There is a café located on the first floor, and doors roll up in good weather providing an indoor/outdoor feel. Nearly 300 laptop computers are available for checkout. Currently, the electronic holdings are more than three times the size of the print holdings, consisting of about 15,000 online journals and 150,000 electronic books, in addition to 46,000 print books.
Research institutes - The Sierra Nevada Research Institute
- The World Cultures Institute
Planned Institutes - MERI (Merced Energy Research Institute)
- The Biomedical and Systems Biology Research Institute
- National Parks Institute
In 2007, UC Merced researchers obtained nearly $7 million in funding from the National Science Foundation.[8] The logo of the National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. ...
Campus layout The campus is bounded by Lake Yosemite on one side and two canals run through the campus. The buildings will be grouped into "neighborhoods" by academic discipline, much in the manner of the Irvine campus. The campus master plan was developed by ARUP, and its first buildings were designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The University of California, Irvine is a public research university primarily situated in suburban Irvine, California, USA. Founded in 1965, it is one of ten University of California campuses and is commonly known as UCI or UC Irvine. ...
The architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) was formed in Chicago in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings; in 1939 they were joined by John Merrill. ...
Rather than build on 40 acres of protected land east of Lake Yosemite, where endangered fairy shrimp hatch in vernal pools, the school will build on a 230-acre parcel of grazing land south of campus, under a revised layout. The fledgling campus will cover a total of 810 acres, rather than the 910 acres proposed in 2000. The new design will impact just 81 acres of native wetlands in the region compared to the 121 acres forecast in the 2000 footprint. [9]
Athletics Unlike other UC campuses, UC Merced does not have any official varsity athletic teams. However, it does have intramural and club sports. The term intramural is most commonly associated with sports within a school. ...
On November 13, 2006, the University officially opened its gymnasium. The "Joseph Edward Gallo Recreation and Wellness Center", named after the rancher and dairy farmer who donated money for the facility's construction, features a "NCAA-sized basketball court, workout facilities, room for performances, wellness and fitness education and the Rajender Reddy Student Health Center". [3] Joseph Joe Edward Gallo, Jr. ...
At the opening of the facility, UC Merced officials stated their intent to have competitive sports teams, starting with baseball, men's soccer and aquatics, and women's soccer and volleyball. The campus's long-term goal is to compete at the NCAA Division II level.
Student life
UC Merced, Castle AFB Site About 600 students currently live on campus in the Valley Terraces housing area, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) away from the city of Merced. The campus dining area offers a variety of ethnic foods including Asian, Mexican, and Italian. The on-campus housing system has a single kitchen to be used if reserved and allows the use and storage of a refrigerator and a microwave oven. The dining commons are closed during Thanksgiving weekend, Spring Break, Veterans' Day, Presidents Day, and Cesar Chavez day. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 117 KB)Photo by VanZandt at Flickr. ...
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Merced (pronounced Mer-SED), is the county seat of Merced County, California in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California. ...
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The campus diversity in its first year was: 37% Asian American, 25% Latino, 25% Caucasian, 6% African American, and 0.7% Native American. The remaining students declined to specify their ethnicity. An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...
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The campus is not as established as other UC schools, and the city is not yet active as a college town. Many students find a short trip to the city of Fresno worthwhile for increased entertainment options (or a trip to the San Francisco Bay Area), as choices are very limited in the immediate Merced area. The university attempts to engage students in on-campus activities like dances and movie nights. Many students go to Lake Yosemite which is near the main campus. Students can walk, jog, picnic, barbecue, and swim at the lake. Merced has several artistic venues which host plays, concerts, and art shows. They include The Mainzer Theater, Merced Multicultural Arts Center, and Playhouse Merced. Castle Air Museum is within close driving distance from Merced. Merced is known as the "Gateway to Yosemite" and it is common for students to take day trips to Yosemite where they can hike, rock climb, and camp overnight. Fresno redirects here. ...
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Student publications include "The Prodigy" newspaper, "The Fury Shrimp Times" and literary journals, "The Kumquat" and "Imagination Dead Imagine".
Student government The student governments at UC Merced comprise the Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the undergraduate body called the Associated Students of UC Merced (ASUCM).
The founding graduate students, who joined the Graduate School of UC Merced in early 2004, initiated the GSA in that year, before the university officially opened its doors to undergraduate students in the fall of 2005. The constitution and by-laws were prepared by them. They were then approved by all the graduate students.
The undergraduate students of UC Merced have recently inititated and established their first student government. The Committee on Constitution and By-Laws was established in fall 2005 and was responsible for writing the constitution for the Associated Students of UC Merced (ASUCM).
Elections for the ratification of the constitution were held in April, 2006. The constitution was approved by a majority of the student body, officially establishing ASUCM, which serves as the official representative and voice of students at UC Merced.
Clubs The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), founded in 1950 and based in Washington, D.C., is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. ...
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References - ^ Table I, Total University Endowment Assets by Donor Designation to Regents and Foundation (PDF). Annual Endowment Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2006. Office of the Treasurer of The Regents of the University of California. Retrieved on 2007-03-20.
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- ^ Doyle, Michael. "UC Merced leads research funds race", The Modesto Bee, October 13, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
- ^ "UC Merced changes expansion plans to protect sensitive wetlands", Mercury News, October 10, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
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