SSHA Outstanding Graduating Students: (standing, from left): Anaya Cambridge, Mina Lawson, Maylyn Ankary Torres, Christopher Finley, Emily Rodriguez, Kendra Sesco, Elisa Kanervisto, Brandon Casteneda, Patience Ferriera; (seated, from left) Alisa Ruiz Rios, Kahilan Skiba, Kimberly Barillas, Karla Ramirez.
Thirteen UC Merced students were honored by the School of Social Science, Humanities and Arts for outstanding undergraduate careers.
At a reception May...
A UC Merced first-year student’s essay about the challenges of living in the San Joaquin Valley with a respiratory illness earned him the 2025 Karen Merritt Writing Fellowship Award.
Peter Nguyen, who majors in biological sciences with an emphasis on human biology, will receive $1,000 with the award, which recognizes an undergraduate who demonstrates analytical skills, creativity and research promise in first-year writing.
Nguyen was nominated by lecturer...
“Who but When, How," an autobiographical project by award-winning filmmaker and UC Merced Professor Yehuda Sharim, premieres May 11 at the Ethnocineca international documentary film festival in Vienna, Austria.
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...
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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...
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