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Grad Student Aids Campus’s Move to Remote Teaching
By Brenda Ortiz, UC MercedApril 15, 2020Graduate student Jackie Shay has stepped up for the campus and students during the COVID-19 crisis.When UC Merced began transitioning to emergency remote...
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First-Generation Student Pursues Anti-Racism Research, Joins Cal-Poly Pomona...
By Cyndee Fontana-OttApril 27, 2020This fall, Katie Daniels will start a faculty position in the sociology department at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona.Kathryn “Katie” Daniels was a...
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Professor’s Documentary Film about Refugee Family Honored at Vienna...
By Michelle MorganteMay 7, 2020Professor Yehuda Sharim's film "Songs that Never End" is a finalist in Ethnocineca 2020“Songs that Never End,” Professor Yehuda Sharim’s intimate film about a family...
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Virtual Commencement Promises Surprises for Grads, Families
By Brenda Ortiz, UC MercedMay 11, 2020UC Merced is commemorating the tremendous accomplishments of its graduates with a virtual ceremony streamed at 10 a.m. May 16.While the COVID-19 pandemic has...
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First Virtual Commencement Honors Class of 2020
By Elizabeth Arakelian, UC Merced May 18, 2020The Class of 2020 has officially graduated and while students didn’t cross the stage in typical commencement fashion, the celebration was memorable.In the...
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Researcher Provides Helpful Guide to Coping with Stressful Times, Part I
June 3, 2020By Professor Matthew Zawadzki, UC MercedIt can be helpful to take breaks and focus on being quiet and calm.Professor Matthew Zawadzki is with the Department of Psychological Sciences in the...
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Researcher Offers Guide to Coping with COVID-related Stress, Part II
By Matthew Zawadzki, UC MercedJune 10, 2020It can be helpful to take breaks and focus on being quiet and calm.Professor Matthew Zawadzki is with the Department of Psychological Sciences in the School...
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Professor Mark Aldenderfer Closes His Time at UC Merced and Seeks New...
By Michelle Morgante, UC MercedJuly 14, 2020Professor Emeritus Mark AldenderferEsteemed archaeologist and anthropologist Mark Aldenderfer, the new Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship endowed chair,...
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Low-Wage Work Is Linked to Spread of COVID-19, Study Finds
By Michelle Morgante, UC MercedJuly 21, 2020California counties that surpass state averages for both households living below a living wage and the number of people in a household are more likely to...
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$3.5 Million Hellman Endowment Expands Future of Research at UC Merced
By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedJuly 26, 2020UC Merced research will be enhanced by a new endowment from the Hellman Family Foundation.Since 2011, the Hellman Fellows Fund has provided close to 60 UC...
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Summer Research Program Continues to Serve Students Remotely
By Brenda Ortiz, UC Merced July 29, 2020More than 100 students participated remotely in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center's Summer Undergraduate Research Institute to develop critical...
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SNRI Sees a Leadership Transition
By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedJuly 29, 2020Professor Tom Harmon is the new faculty director of SNRI.Change is everywhere at UC Merced this year, from hiring a new chancellor to the completion of a major...
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Founding UC Merced Faculty Member Appointed to the Smithsonian National...
UC MercedSeptember 2, 2020UC Merced Professor ShiPu Wang has joined the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's Board of CommissionersThe Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery has announced that UC...
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Scholarship and Community Partnerships Continue with Renewed Luce Foundation...
By Elizabeth Arakelian, UC MercedSeptember 22, 2020UC Merced Interdisciplinary Humanities graduate students and faculty will have the benefit of two additional years of funding from the Henry Luce...
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Virtual Summer Academy, Other Sessions, Reached Students Around the Country
By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedOctober 21, 2020Younger students engaged with Bobcats and faculty this summer via virtual sessions in record numbers.Students and faculty worked with a record number of...
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Statewide Coalition Forming to Bring COVID Awareness to At-Risk Communities
By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedOctober 22, 2020Cultiva la Salud is a vital part of a community collaboration to increase understanding of COVID-19. Photo courtesy of Claudia CorchadoA new coalition of...
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Public Health Professors Study COVID-19 Impact on Rural, Latinx Health
By Elizabeth Arakelian, UC Merced October 22, 2020California deemed agriculture an essential business amid the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning many farm workers have worked during the harvest season under...
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Grad Services Bolstered to Better Support Students Remotely
By Brenda Ortiz, UC MercedOctober 26, 2020Ph.D. student Megha Suswaram was instrumental in assisting the Graduate Division transition its Graduate Orientation Week to an online format.UC Merced’s...
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Two MacArthur Foundation Chairs Awarded to Female SSHA Faculty
By Elizabeth Arakelian, UC Merced November 9, 2020Professors Nancy Burke and Whitney Pirtle are the two newest MacArthur Foundation chairs at UC Merced.Two female faculty members of UC Merced’s School...
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Connection Between COVID-19 and Loss of Smell Uncovered by Research Team
By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedNovember 18, 2020Loss of sense of smell is one of the typical symptoms of COVID-19, but many people don't recognize that they have lost it.About 70 percent of people with...
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