This edition of Build UC Merced provides an update about the Downtown Campus Center from the project's transition team.
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News
The themes of well-being, friendship and strong sense of community guide the focus of campus activities this week.
Design Thinking is a new mechanical engineering class aimed at helping students who have never learned to think like engineers succeed in engineering courses.
By using novel technology developed at UC Merced, this adjunct professor, who works mainly at Lawrence Livermore lab is working to see whether she can distinguish aggressive cancers before they spread to bone.
Students can now get advanced degrees specifically in mechanical engineering, which many feel will help recruit more graduate students.
Open Enrollment started last week and continues until 5 p.m. Nov. 22. During this time, faculty and staff members can make changes to their benefits.
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In the News
The media's interest in Hill's visit to Merced included an op-ed by Mark T. Harris, a feature on Denard Davis and Charles Ogletree, and coverage of Friday's Spendlove Prize ceremony.
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Campus and Public Safety
Upcoming training instructs faculty and staff members how to best respond when emergency situations happen, whether on campus or at the grocery store, a shopping mall or public events.
Library Notes
Works by poet and playwright Ana Rossetti are now part of the library's collection, and UC Merced was selected to lead an archiving project that documents the history of UC Cooperative Extension.
Tech Corner
All University of California entities have adopted the new conferencing tool called Zoom.
Archive
You can access past issues of Panorama, but please note that they are offered for historical reference only and that the information in them may be out of date or no longer accurate.