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Professor’s Latest Film Examines Latinx Women’s Experience in a Divided America

December 15, 2020
Global Arts Studies Professor Yehuda Sharim has released his latest project, a short film titled “Red Line Lullaby” or “Cancion de Cuna Colorada,” which examines the varied struggles of Latinx women in America today. The 14-minute film chronicles the lives of working...

Breast Milk Shows Promise for Treating COVID-19 and Protecting Babies

December 14, 2020
Health psychology Professor Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook and incoming grad student Jessica Marino have a new study suggesting that the breastmilk of mothers who have recovered from COVID-19 contains strong antibodies to the virus. In the fight against the global pandemic, there is an urgent...

Campus Holiday Gift Drives Continue

December 10, 2020
UC Merced’s Staff Assembly, Community Engagement Center and the Office of External Relations are partnering to host a holiday gift drive to benefit local families. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to donate new, unwrapped gifts for youth ages 9-17. This year might be different, but people...

Q&A: How People Decide Whether to Comply with Public Health Orders

December 9, 2020
How do people decide whether to comply with public health directives around the COVID-19 pandemic, such as wearing masks, social distancing and staying at home? Whether to take such preventative measures is a personal decision based on many factors. According to previous research, it would be...

Fall Commencement's Alumni Speaker Maps Out Path to Success

December 8, 2020
*/ 5:15 a.m.: Wake up. My phone is my alarm, placed under my bed so I must get up to turn it off. Make my bed. Stretch. Ish Verduzco has a weekday routine. It rarely varies more than 20 to 30 minutes a day. 5:20 a.m.: Listen to an audiobook while I brush my teeth and prep for my morning...

Library Acquires Ernest Lowe Photography Collection Documenting 1960s Rural California Communities

December 7, 2020
In the 1960s, Ernest Lowe took his camera into the rural towns of California’s Central Valley, documenting the lives and struggles of farm-working communities. Sixty years later, these photos are available to the public through UC Merced, showing the raw reality of farm laborers and their families...

‘Give to UC Merced’ to End 2020 on a High Note

November 30, 2020
High school and college students’ lives have changed in unpredictable ways this year. They’ve missed out on many of the traditions that mark the beginnings and ends of some of life’s most formative chapters and the social interactions that are crucial to adolescent development. They have also been...

New Book Details Best Practices in Research Among Vulnerable Populations

November 30, 2020
Rosa D. Manzo, Ph.D., associate director of medical education and a project research scientist, has co-authored a new book on community-based and community-engaged research. “Cultura y Corazón” is for students, researchers and practitioners who want to work with vulnerable populations through a...

Connection Between COVID-19 and Loss of Smell Uncovered by Research Team

November 18, 2020
About 70 percent of people with COVID-19 suddenly lose their sense of smell, although fewer of them seem to realize it, according to a new “living analysis” by a research team that includes a UC Merced graduate student. Vicente Ramirez, a Ph.D. student in UC Merced’s Public...

Undocumented Bobcats Find Support on Campus and Through One Another

November 12, 2020
Being a university student is stressful on its own. Students who have an uncertain immigration status have an additional layer of worry. The nearly 600 UC Merced students with undocumented status are finding support not only from the university, but from one another. The team at Services for...

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