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UC Merced Talents Combine to Bring ‘Winter’s Tale’ to Life

February 17, 2015
Tragedy and comedy come to life in “The Winter’s Tale,” directed by UC Merced’s very own Katherine Brokaw. Presented by Merced ShakespeareFest, the four-act play is among the last written by William Shakespeare and is Brokaw’s favorite. “The first three acts are...

Reception Today for Sierra Nevada Quilt Exhibit

February 12, 2015
The UC Merced Art Gallery presents “The Contact: Quilts of the Sierra Nevada” by Ann Johnston through March 20. Made possible through grant support from the Center for the Humanities, “The Contact” features 14 quilts inspired by the Sierra Nevada. Jerrold Shiroma, digital...

Film Festival Focuses on Human Rights

February 5, 2015
Tomorrow, (Friday, Feb. 6) kicks off the UC Merced Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which brings home the discussion about human rights through films that highlight efforts to end violence and inequality throughout the world. A different film will be shown every Friday in February, with the final...

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...

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...

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.  

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...

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