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When regents selected Merced for the newest University of California campus in 1995, the choice brought promise for the entire region: of an improved workforce, advanced technology, economic impact and groundbreaking research. Nearly 30 years later, a...

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Grants, Accolades and Awards

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...

UC Merced’s Department of Sociology earned a quartet of awards at the American Sociological Society annual meeting, held this year in Montreal on Aug. 9-13.

  • Professor Stephanie Canizales received an Early Career Award in the Children and Youth section.

  • Professor Ed Flores received the Dan Clawson Activist-Scholar Award from ASA’s...

Research Publications

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

Political Science lecturer Cameron Dehart's research on the political representation of Native Americans was published in the journal State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Dehart and co-author Elliot Mamet (of Duke) studied the representation of... See More

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