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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
Graduate student Kaiqi Hua's research into pre-modern China has taken him to the canals of Hangzhou, the rocket-battered streets of Jerusalem and the East-West Center in Hawaii.
Hua, a seventh-year graduate student in Interdisciplinary Humanities, is studying a Buddhist movement called the...
