Dear Trustees,
We have appreciated the opportunities to connect with so many of you in the past few weeks for work group meetings and look forward to assembling the full group for the board meeting later this month. As a reminder, the Board of Trustees Meeting is on Wednesday, February 23 from 9:00 - 11:00 am via Zoom. Please be sure to indicate your planned attendance through this RSVP form or by emailing Stephanie at ucmfoundation@ucmerced.edu.
We are excited to share with you our newest publication, a new edition of the UC Merced Magazine. You will each receive a hard copy in the mail this month, and we wanted to share a digital version for your early perusal and to share with others that may be interested. A link has also been added under the Publications section on the Resources page of our UC Merced Foundation website. We are grateful for your support with sharing UC Merced's story and hope that you find these materials useful to your efforts as trustees.
Finally, we would like to acknowledge the board's incredible participation in our year-end Give to UC Merced initiative. Your support through individual, match, and challenge gifts is truly instrumental to the success of our annual fundraiser and ultimately makes an immense impact across our campus. Read more about the results of Give to UC Merced here.
Thank you for all that you do. As always, please don't hesitate to reach out should you have any questions or suggestions to share.
Warmest regards,
Ed, Lisa, and Stephanie
E. Edward Klotzbier, JD
Vice Chancellor
President, UC Merced Foundation
Lisa Pollard Carlson
Associate Vice Chancellor
Vice President, UC Merced Foundation
Stephanie Sia
Director, Foundation Board
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Full Board Meetings
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 (virtual) | 9:00 - 11:00 am | RSVP
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Committee/Work Group Meetings
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem WG | RSVP
Monday, February 14, 2022 | 3:30 pm
Connections & Engagement WG | RSVP
Friday, February 18, 2022 | 9:00 am
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You should have received an email from UC Merced Foundation Intern Hannah Meskienyar regarding advocacy opportunities. If you haven't already, please be sure to follow up with her by email (hmeskienyar@ucmerced.edu) to indicate your interest in participating in meetings and to share any connections or questions you may have.
Trustees are also invited to join the UC Advocacy Network to participate in systemwide advocacy activities. Please find more information below.
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UCAN is a community of committed people who lend their voices to shape state and federal policies promoting the university's mission.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a state spending plan that includes a five-year funding compact with the University of California. If enacted, it would bring budget stability to UC and support critical long-term investments in educational access and excellence. Newsom’s proposal for the 2022-23 fiscal year also allocates $185M in one-time funds for climate change-related work, expanding the University’s innovation ecosystem to accelerate new technological solutions - a great win for the UC community.
Support critical funding for UC!
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Thank you for your generous support of the 2021 Trustees' Impact Fund benefiting Student Success. We look forward to sharing updates on the fund at the February Board of Trustees meeting.
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Quyen Chu, M.D.
Chief, Surgical Oncology
Orlando Health Cancer Institute
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
12:00 pm
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Esophageal cancer is the seventh most common cancer globally, accounting for more than half a million of deaths per year. The two most common histologies are adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy followed by surgical resection has become the mainstay treatment for resectable esophageal cancer. With the advent of immunotherapy, human monoclonal anti-programmed death (PD-1) antibody has proven to play a critical role for those who had residual disease following resection.
Dr. Quyen D. Chu is Chair of Surgical Oncology at Orlando Health Cancer Institute. He earned his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his medical degree at the Brown University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in general surgery at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston. He completed a clinical fellowship in surgical oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. He also earned his Executive MBA at Centenary College, Shreveport, LA.
The UC Merced Grand Rounds program is sponsored by the Office of Medical Education and UC Merced. This monthly series of interactive education sessions focuses on topics of interest to the San Joaquin Valley in clinical, community, and translational medicine, health sciences, public health and health systems.
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CITRIS Research on Ag-Food-Tech AgBag Seminar |
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Dr. David Zilberman
Monday, February 14, 2022
12:00 pm
We are delighted to host Labor and Automation in California Agriculture (LACA) partner and UC Berkeley Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Dr. David Zilberman. Zilberman is a highly-cited thought leader in water policy and environmental and resource policy in agriculture. His work spans international issues in health and animal agriculture and tech adoption in Californian irrigation systems.
Dr. Zilberman will provide his research and insights on innovation and supply chains in agriculture. Dr. Zilberman is the lead agricultural economist on the UC Merced-led project, LACA, funded by the University of California Office of the President's Multicampus Research Program & Initiative (MRPI).
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Innovation + Design Hub Speaker Series |
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Ana Moreno
Thursday, February 17, 2022
1:00 pm
Ana Moreno, CEO and co-founder of Navega Therapeutics, a pre-clinical stage company focused on developing next-generation epigenetic gene therapies for pain, ophthalmology, and neurological disorders, will discuss her journey from graduate school, to spinning out her PhD work into a company, to now raising a Series A financing round.
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UC Merced has appointed Daniel T. Okoli, Ph.D., as vice chancellor and chief operating officer, overseeing Planning and Development, Facilities, the UC Merced Police Department and several other departments. Among the major projects he will take on are the development of UC Merced’s Health, Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education Building and liaising with the city of Merced as it pursues annexation of the campus and surrounding area.
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As part of a heartfelt tribute to their beloved advisor, mentor and “surrogate mom,” a group of university alumni and Omega Delta Phi fraternity members have established the Carla Krogh Legacy Endowed Scholarship, which will support UC Merced students with a demonstrated interest in public and community service. Krogh, who has the distinction of being a founding UC Merced staff member, recently retired from her role as the university’s cashiering manager after a 20-year career on campus.
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As part of the 2021-22 Governor’s California Comeback Plan, UC Merced students will get the opportunity to serve their community while receiving financial support for college through the new program #CaliforniaForAll College Fellowship. Modeled after the pilot Civic Action program launched in 2020, the program led by California Volunteers will engage undergraduates across the state.
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Professor Xuecai Ge, a developmental neurobiologist, has received a CAREER award for research to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms that direct brain formation, and how errors in cell signaling lead to developmental disorders. Ge is the 31st number researcher from UC Merced to earn a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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California is the largest and the most diverse agricultural economy in the nation with revenue exceeding $50 billion — larger than the combined agricultural economies of the other 10 western states. A $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will enable a new project at UC Merced to create an integrated program to develop multi-faceted pathways to climate-smart agriculture solutions.
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A team from UC Merced comprising eight undergraduate and graduate students has won the inaugural CITRIS Aviation Prize. For engineering the winning proposal, they will receive a $2,000 cash award, as well as a $25,000 budget to support a live demonstration of their flight in spring 2022. The winning team submitted a proposal for a “long endurance edge-AI platform for research opportunities and data gathering,” called Project LEAP-FROG.
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We are actively recruiting for several positions in the External Relations division. Please feel free to share these opportunities with anyone in your networks that may be interested in joining our team.
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