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Parents' Financial Help Linked to Lower GPAs, Higher Graduation Rates

January 15, 2013
College students who aren't studying hard may have their parents' financial support to blame. A new study by University of California, Merced, sociology Professor Laura T. Hamilton found that students' GPAs decreased with increased financial support from their parents. The study also...

Professor Awarded National Grant for Research on Moroccan Literature

January 14, 2013
University of California, Merced, literature Professor Cristián H. Ricci has received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities award to write an in-depth analysis of Moroccan literature. The research project, “Moroccan Literature and the Broadening of Postcolonial Literary...

Historian Uses 'Big Data' to Study World History

January 14, 2013
The path from ancient China to information science might seem like a long one, but Ruth Mostern is walking it. Mostern, a history professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, is joining a team that will use more than $601,000 in National Science Foundation grants to start...

New Grant to Help Prepare Grad Students for Faculty Careers

November 13, 2012
UC Merced is one of only seven universities nationwide to receive a grant from the Council of Graduate Schools to develop new approaches for enhancing graduate student skills for assessing undergraduate learning, and to help prepare students for future careers as university faculty members. In...

SSHA Helps Send Students to Political Conventions

November 5, 2012
When UC Merced first announced it would be sending students to the national political conventions through The Washington Center program, senior Chelsea Coe never expected she'd be one of the lucky two. Coe, a transfer student from Santa Monica, is a cognitive science major working with...

Professor: In Politics, It’s Not Just What You Say, It’s How You Say It

October 23, 2012
In an election year, as people are being machine-gunned with millions of dollars’ worth of political messages from all sorts of sources, it might be re-assuring (or distressing) to discover that even the more subtle aspects of language use can actually make a make a powerful and priceless...

Transfer Student Uses Sports, Academics to Inspire Local Youth

October 8, 2012
At 33, Nick Navarrette isn’t the average UC Merced student. He’s not even the average transfer student. Then again, Navarrette has never been “average,” nor does he pretend to be. Maybe that’s why adversity doesn’t seem to faze him. The former UC Merced police...

Cog Sci Professor Researches Communication's Development in Newborns

September 26, 2012
From burps to babbling, cognitive science Professor Anne S. Warlaumont studies how children develop their ability to verbally communicate in the first year of their lives. "I've always been interested in the origin of complex human behavior," Warlaumont said, "and communication...

Campus Humanities Center to Expand Mission with Private Gift

August 31, 2012
With the help of a $2 million gift, UC Merced's humanities center will support scholars in conducting interdisciplinary research, engaging the public and addressing issues critical to the San Joaquin Valley and California. In keeping with developing an innovative 21st century learning...

Students Share Personal Stories in Program to Keep Kids in School

August 27, 2012
Sociology major Patricia Paredes didn’t grow up in the best neighborhood or have the easiest childhood. But she overcame those hardships to graduate from a San Jose high school and enroll at the University of California’s newest campus. Now, Paredes is sharing her story of...

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