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Internal Auditor Here to Help

July 10, 2013
What comes to mind when you hear the word “audit?” An encounter with a grim-faced accountant? Visions of the IRS? Todd Kucker is quite aware of the negative image many people have about audits, but he’s working hard to change that perception at UC Merced. Kucker is director of internal audit, and...

Anthropologist Publishes Ethnography on Nation-Building

July 8, 2013
Nation-states, as we know them, have been built and rebuilt since the 18th century. Professor Robin DeLugan is an expert in nation-building and recently published a case study examining how the process has changed in the 21st century. Using post-civil war El Salvador as the example, “Reimagining...

Graphic Labels Discourage Smoking in Young Adults

July 3, 2013
Graphic cigarette warning labels are better at discouraging smoking in young adults than text-only labels, according to research recently published by a UC Merced professor. Health psychology Professor Linda Cameron had more than 300 people between 18 and 30 years old view the U.S. Food and Drug...

Professor’s Fellowship Takes Her Into the Halls of Power

July 1, 2013
Like many faculty members, Professor Katrina Hoyer is busy running a lab, teaching and researching. This year, she adds another item to her to-do list – learning how public policy is implemented and how she can advocate for policy that affects her research. Hoyer has been named one of 10 public...

Cog Sci Program’s Strength Shown at Conference

June 24, 2013
Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced will be the top program represented this summer at the discipline’s premiere conference, Cognitive Science. There will be 25 presentations from the program’s faculty, researchers, graduate students and undergraduates, the most from any one university...

Founding Faculty Member Honored with NSF Grant for Excellence

June 19, 2013
A five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation is helping Professor Alberto Cerpa develop the next big breakthrough in wireless sensor networks – an autonomous, self-learning system that uses its own energy wisely. “We need to maximize its lifetime while maximizing the amount of data...

Grad Student’s Farmland Mapping Project Gets Prestigious Publisher

June 17, 2013
Working to map every square inch, UC Merced master’s student Andrew Zumkehr found there are 111 million acres of abandoned farmland in the United States. That’s a lot of space for growing biofuels that could replace between 5 percent and 30 percent of the United States' primary energy or liquid...

Undergraduates Win Coveted APS Summer Research Fellowships

June 10, 2013
Two UC Merced undergraduates will spend the summer immersed in research after winning prestigious fellowships from the American Physiological Society. Sophomores Debby Lee and Meagan Moreno competed on a national level for the 10-week, $4,000 fellowships that will support them during their first...

Professor’s Work Earns Her a Spot in Prestigious Journal

June 5, 2013
Using some of the tiniest fossils in the world to help clarify how climate change is modeled has earned Professor Jessica Blois a big honor – publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Blois, one of the newest professors in the School of Natural Sciences, is a...

Science, Math Program to Offer More Paths to Aspiring Teachers

June 3, 2013
Armanti Hardesty is ready to join the next generation of teachers. “We’re all going into a more technological age,” said Hardesty, an alumnus from Long Beach. “It’s great to have new teachers learning the best ways to help students.” Hardesty left UC Merced in May with a degree in sociology and a...

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