Dear Trustees,
Thank you again for your participation in our recent board meeting. As one key outcome from the meeting, we are excited to welcome four new trustees to the board: Trevor Albertson, Keith Alley, Renae De Jager, and Tracy Proietti. Our new members will have the chance to introduce themselves at our next full board meeting in February, and you may even meet them sooner at upcoming work group meetings.
Many of you have participated in our annual day of giving on Giving Tuesday in previous years. This year, we will launch a month-long giving initiative, Give To UC Merced, which will run from December 1 (Giving Tuesday) through December 31. Please take note of this upcoming initiative and more information about how to participate will follow soon.
As mentioned in the email following our board meeting, UC Merced staff will be reaching out soon to review the finalized Trustee Engagement Form, in addition to addressing some annual administrative items. Should you have additional questions in the meantime, please don't hesitate to reach out to ucmfoundation@ucmerced.edu.
Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support and service to our board and university.
In partnership,
Ed and Lisa
E. Edward Klotzbier, JD
Vice Chancellor
President, UC Merced Foundation
Lisa Pollard Carlson
Associate Vice Chancellor
Vice President, UC Merced Foundation
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2020 Trustees' Impact Fund |
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We are grateful for the board's support of the Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve project through contributions to the Trustees' Impact Fund. Help us reach the finish line and achieve the board's goal of 100% participation by December 31, 2020.
If you haven't made your 2020 gift, you can give online by clicking the button below or by completing and sending this remit card. Should you have any questions, please contact Lisa Pollard Carlson at lpollard@ucmerced.edu or (209) 291-8169.
Thank you for your support, which truly makes a tremendous impact on our programs, research, and students.
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Upcoming Work Group Meetings
Tuesday, November 17, 1:00 p.m. - Advocacy & Awareness/Philanthropy | RSVP Here
Friday, December 11, 2:00 p.m. - Entrepreneurial Ecosystem | RSVP Here
Monday, December 14, 11:00 a.m. - Nominations | RSVP Here
Full Board Meetings
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
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Blackstone Launchpad Entrepreneurship Speaker Series |
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Upcoming Speakers
Richard K. Lyons | Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer, UC Berkeley | Professor & Former Dean
Today at 5:00 PM
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Rich Lyons is UC Berkeley’s Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer, a new campus-wide role he started in January 2020. He served as dean of UC Berkeley's Haas School from 2008 to 2018 and is currently the William and Janet Cronk Chair in Innovative Leadership. He was acting dean of the Haas School from 2004 to 2005 and executive associate dean and Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance from 2005 to 2006. For the two years just prior to serving as dean he was the Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs. He received his BS with highest honors from UC Berkeley (finance) and Ph.D. from MIT (economics). Before joining the Berkeley faculty, Rich was on the faculty at Columbia Business School for six years. His research and teaching expertise is in international finance and his top applied interest is the “how and why” of setting strong cultures in organizations. |
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Monday, December 7, 5:00 PM
José M. Hernández
Former NASA Astronaut | President and CEO Tierra Luna Engineering
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Conversations with Campus Leaders |
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How America's increasing immigrant population is shaping the nation, and why UC Merced is ahead of the curve
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In just 15 years since its founding, UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., said UC Merced has come to embody the best of what the University of California has to offer when it comes to research excellence, social mobility and diversity.
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Students and faculty worked with a record number of schoolchildren from Merced, the Bay Area and southern California all the way to Washington, D.C., enriching their learning and increasing their interest in science, technology, engineering and math.
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Ward Eldredge warily monitored the fire’s progress. As curator of the archives of the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, he deliberated what would need to be done if the nearby Castle Fire continued its approach toward the parks’ headquarters.
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Computer Science and Engineering Chair Professor Stefano Carpin, Environmental Engineering Professor Joshua Viers and professors at UC Riverside recently received a more than $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the National Science Foundation’s National Robotics Initiative.
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UC Merced undergraduate students and faculty partner with Merced Shakespearefest to produce the bilingual, English-Spanish Shakespearean web series Ricardo El Segundo (Richard II). The production’s origin lies within Ph.D. candidate William Wolfgang’s idea to bring a bilingual Shakespearean show to the Central Valley, in an effort to bridge cultures together through the iconic playwright’s social justice activism.
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Wednesday, December 2; 11:30 a.m.
In her new show, born from the COVID-19 pandemic, Kristina Wong details how she went from out-of-work performance artist to overlord of a homemade face mask empire in just 10 days. With her trademark wit, she explores how she was able to build the Auntie Sewing Squad, a sweatshop of hundreds of volunteer “Aunties” to fix the Public Health care system while in quarantine.
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Biology graduate students are producing educational podcasts and artwork to communicate research happening at UC Merced and beyond. RadioBio seeks to increase scientific literacy in the Central Valley, and engage UC Merced undergraduates in biology and cutting-edge research.
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