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Humanities Center to Host Visiting Lecturers

February 3, 2015
The next week will be a busy one for the Center for the Humanities at UC Merced. David Palumbo-Liu, the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University,  will be on campus two days this week. He will deliver a lecture on “Rationality, Racism and Imagining...

Showcase Your Work at Research Week 2015

January 28, 2015
Take part in Research Week 2015 and show off the work you and your colleagues are conducting at UC Merced. Contact the Office of Research and Economic Development for details.  

Political Scientist Studies Who Tortures Whom, and Why

January 28, 2015
What makes a government decide to use torture in its interrogations? How do those decisions differ when terrorism is suspected? Once torture starts, how can it be stopped?   These questions are at heart of the research being conducted by political scientist Courtenay Conrad, a professor in...

Dean to Speak at Prestigious Conference in India

January 27, 2015
Mark Aldenderfer, dean of the UC Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, will speak this weekend as a guest lecturer at Kshitij, the annual “techno-management fest” of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. IIT Kharagpur, the oldest and largest of the Indian...

Students' Spanish Skills Aid Valley Crisis Center

January 26, 2015
In the fall semester, UC Merced Senior Lecturer Virginia Adán-Lifante offered extra credit to students who volunteered to translate a portion of the Valley Crisis Center website into Spanish. The opportunity reflected Adán-Lifante’s longstanding commitment to service learning. And on a...

Anthropologist Helps Campus Land Carnegie Classification

January 7, 2015
UC Merced was formally recognized this week for its collaborations within the community by the Carnegie Foundation, which granted the university its prestigious Classification for Community Engagement. The exhaustive application process for the classification was spearheaded by anthropology...

Students, Faculty Inducted into Hispanic Honor Society

December 19, 2014
Spanish majors and minors at UC Merced have a new measure of excellence to pursue, thanks to the recent charter of the university’s chapter of Sigma Delta Pi. UC Merced is the seventh UC campus to charter a chapter of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, which was founded at UC...

Dean Aldenderfer to Step Down in 2015

December 17, 2014
Mark Aldenderfer has announced his plan to step down as dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the end of this academic year. He has served as SSHA dean since 2010. The school has accomplished much during his tenure at the helm, including: A doubling of the size of...

Discovery News | Why We Torture When We Know It Doesn't Work

December 11, 2014
Prof. Courtenay Conrad comments on the reasons why government agents use torture instead of other methods of coercion. Watch the video.

Undergrad Embodies UC Merced’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

November 26, 2014
“Start something new” could be the unofficial motto of UC Merced. Even in our 10th academic year, many opportunities for innovation still exist on campus. Armando Lomeli, a senior from Los Banos, wouldn’t have it any other way.  As a psychology major minoring in both...

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