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Physics Grad Student Receives Competitive UC Fellowship

September 5, 2024
Ph.D. student Micah Oeur has been awarded a 2024-2025 UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship to support her physics research and boost her goal to be a professor. PPPF’s goal is to enhance faculty pathways for historically underrepresented groups, particularly Chicanx/Latinx, African Americans...

Mellon Grant Launches ‘Interwoven Futures’ Community Partnership Project

September 5, 2024
UC Merced has received a $750,000 boost to its mission to invest in the San Joaquin Valley’s unique cultural, creative and linguistic wealth by working with the region’s people to strengthen communities and champion social justice. The university’s Center for the Humanities will use a three-year...

Enthusiasm High for Debut of Environmental Humanities Major

August 30, 2024
More than 170 students have enrolled this fall for classes in UC Merced’s new environmental humanities major, a degree that will prepare them to be advocates and storytellers for the living world. The debut of the bachelor of arts degree is the culmination of years of preparation by faculty and...

Cornell Professor Honored by UC Merced Cognitive Scientists

August 27, 2024
A Cornell University professor acclaimed for his study of the evolution, acquisition and processing of language is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award presented by UC Merced’s Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences . Morten Christiansen, the William R...

Campus Hosts Computational Chemistry Conference

August 22, 2024
UC Merced was the site of the 22nd Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate computational chemistRY (MERCURY) Conference held in mid-July. “MERCURY is delighted to have the University of California, Merced, host this year’s annual meeting on the campus,” said Furman University...

Political Science Students Take on Lawmaking and Lobbying at the State Capitol

August 19, 2024
UC Merced political science students returned to Sacramento to get first-hand experience at California’s Capitol with internships. The Center for Analytic Political Engagement (CAPE) Legislative Bootcamp is led by CAPE’s Director Professor Nathan Monroe and Associate Director Adam Gray. The week-...

Researcher's Work Aimed at Helping People Live Better Lives

August 8, 2024
"I like research on the Internet of Things because it solves problems in people's lives," said Shijia Pan , a professor of computer science and engineering at UC Merced and a principal investigator at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao...

Psychological Bias Links Good Deeds with Religious Belief, UC Merced Research Says

August 8, 2024
Experiments conducted by UC Merced researchers find that people who perform good deeds are far more likely to be thought of as religious believers than atheists. Moreover, the psychological bias linking kindness and helpfulness with faith appears to be global in scale. Research on the mental link...

Three Years of Learning and Play at Kids Discovery Station Merced

August 5, 2024
Less than three years ago, the idea of bringing a children’s museum to Merced began to blossom. Since Mayya Tokman and Angelo Kyrilov, both UC Merced professors, opened the doors of Kids Discovery Station, they have seen more than 65,000 visitors. After successful pilot exhibits in 2018 at the...

Training Ph.D. Candidates for Peer Support Roles

August 1, 2024
As a young institution in the University of California system, UC Merced has placed a strong emphasis on serving students who are the first in their families to pursue graduate education. With its strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, UC Merced’s Graduate Division has created a...

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