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CIS Ph.D. Student Gains Confidence at NIH Internship

February 14, 2023
Cognitive and Information Sciences (CIS) Ph.D. student Ben Nguyen spent last summer working as a data analyst at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nguyen was selected for the competitive fellowship through the nonprofit organization Coding it Forward, which brings early career technologists...

Alumna Credits UC Merced for Inspiring Her Interest in Cancer Research

February 13, 2023
After transferring from a Sacramento community college to UC Merced in 2007, Maxine Umeh-Garcia was unsure of her future career. She admits she hadn’t looked at the majors the newest UC offered before applying and imagined she’d teach high school math. She met with her academic advisor and learned...

Berhe Chosen for National Academy Membership in Recognition of Her Soil Research

February 9, 2023
Soil biogeochemistry Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe — who is on leave from UC Merced while she serves as federal director of the Office of Science for the Department of Energy — has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the highest...

Alumni Success Celebrated at Inaugural Math Event

February 7, 2023
The Department of Applied Mathematics, the Applied Mathematics Graduate Program and the student chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) celebrated their many successful alumni recently by holding their inaugural Distinguished Alumni event and giving the Outstanding...

Matlock Receives International Cognitive Science Prize

February 6, 2023
Teenie Matlock, Cognitive and Information Sciences professor and the McClatchy Chair in Communications, has been awarded the fourth Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building — one of the highest honors in the Cognitive Science Society. For Matlock, it’s a true honor...

Community and Labor Center's New Study Highlights Farmworkers' Health Challenges

February 3, 2023
A new landmark study by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center shows farmworkers across California are facing serious health challenges on a daily basis. The goal of the Farmworker Health Study was to examine agricultural worker health and well-being, in addition to health care access, local...

Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium to Provide Perspective on Society

February 2, 2023
Members of the campus community and general public are invited to take a closer look at how society functions by attending the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium at UC Merced. The two-day event is taking place Friday, Feb. 3, and Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Conference Center. Both days will kick off...

Okoli to UC Merced Students: ‘This is Your Place. This is Your Home’

February 2, 2023
University students deserve to feel welcome and safe in their home away from home. It’s a responsibility Daniel Okoli assumes without hesitation. He has designed countless physical spaces for scholars and teachers. As a foreign-born man of color, he has faced bigotry and injustice. As a child of...

Zatz Named 2022 AAAS Fellow

February 2, 2023
Special Assistant to the Chancellor and sociology Professor Marjorie Zatz has been elected to the 2022 class of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), adding to the list of previous UC Merced recipients. She is the first social scientist from UC Merced to be elected an AAAS...

Celebration Commemorates 20 Years Since UC Merced Groundbreaking

January 26, 2023
The setting for the celebration marking 20 years since the groundbreaking for UC Merced was markedly different in many ways from the event it commemorated. Wednesday's ceremony, attended by hundreds of faculty and staff - including dozens from when the university opened - took place in the Dr....

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