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UC Merced Strikes ‘Grand Gold’ for Alumni Chat Series

June 1, 2018
In 2013, UC Merced’s Alumni Relations staff proposed an idea: Invite alumni back to campus to talk to current students about their post-graduation careers and experiences. That idea became UC Merced’s Alumni Career Chat Employment Success Series (ACCESS). And when Alumni Relations...

Insight on Capital Public Radio: Distracted Voters Choose White Candidates

May 31, 2018
Political science Professor Jessica Trounstine shared her research on how being distracted while voting can have unintended consequences, especially for political candidates of color.    

Study Finds That Gene Transcription Can Serve as Brain’s Timekeeper

May 31, 2018
Neurons keep time. These brain cells – which are responsible for the brain’s “heavy lifting,” from information processing to memory formation – seem to "know" how long they’ve been exposed to sensory stimulation. Now, scientists are starting to...

The Economist: Political Science Research Shows Tribalism

May 31, 2018
Professor Alexander Theodoridis and his colleagues found that people often dehumanize their partisan rivals.

Workshops to Inform Staff on New GE Program

May 30, 2018
This fall, UC Merced launches a new undergraduate education program that fully supports students in achieving the Hallmarks of the Baccalaureate Degree at UC Merced. The program nurtures a spirit of inquiry among students, building their knowledge of disciplines, cultures and perspectives in the...

Young Artist Movement Making Room for More Art on Campus

May 29, 2018
Three enterprising Global Arts Studies Program (GASP) students saw the empty UC Merced Art Gallery on campus and, worried the space would be reallocated, wondered why they couldn’t volunteer to run it. So they started the Young Artist Movement (YAM) — a “guerilla” group...

News and Notes: Staff Had ‘Rad’ Time During ’80s-Themed Appreciation Week

May 24, 2018
UC Merced staff members got the time to enjoy the company of their colleagues while being saluted for the tireless work they do to support students, faculty members and the university’s mission during UC Merced’s annual Staff Appreciation Week (SAW). This year’s event gave a...

Children’s Museum Pop-Up Arrives Friday

May 23, 2018
A team of educators, policy makers and community members are working to bring a children’s museum to Merced. To celebrate the museum’s first pop-up exhibit, Merced For Kids, museum organizers are inviting members of the community to attend the exhibit’s family-friendly opening-...

Students Discover Cannibal Lizards on Remote Aegean Island

May 23, 2018
It reads like a mashup of Greek mythology and H.G. Wells. “The Odyssey of Doctor Moreau,” perhaps. Explorers find their way to a remote Aegean island and discover it’s inhabited by reptilian cannibals. They describe one encounter as follows: “[I]t began to run away, with...

Alumnae Staff Members Honor Family With Endowed Scholarships

May 23, 2018
In creating scholarships to help future generations of Bobcats succeed, UC Merced staff members and alumnae Monique de Villa (’16) and Danielle Armedilla (’12) are cementing the legacy they are leaving for campus.   De Villa and Armedilla were honored for their generous...

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