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Grants, Accolades and Awards

A UC Merced-produced video that spanned 13 time zones, linking the Spendlove social justice prize to its honoree, the Dalai Lama, earned an award of excellence from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

CASE gave its Circle of Excellence Gold Award to the university’s Division of External Relations in the category of one-time, online special events.

The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the...

Yehuda Sharim, UC Merced professor of media and performance studies, has received an Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship Program award from the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

Sharim is a writer and filmmaker. His latest film, “Flora,” was honored...

A Cornell University professor acclaimed for his study of the evolution, acquisition and processing of language is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award presented by UC Merced’s Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences .

Morten Christiansen, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology at...

Research Publications

In his book debut, a UC Merced professor challenges the common narrative that adoption is mainly an act of love that benefits the adoptees, adoptive parents and birth parents, especially in cases that cross racial lines and national borders.

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A Braitenberg vehicle travels the realms of science. Sometimes it’s real, sometimes it’s not. Either way, its simple designs help researchers see how an agent’s interaction with its environment can produce complex, seemingly intelligent behavior such... See More

Public Health fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Kesia Garibay has a new first-authored article titled, “Examining the Role and Strategies of Advocacy Coalitions in... See More

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