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Cognitive Scientists Find Links Between Jazz, Speech and Whale Songs

October 11, 2017
Jazz musicians riffing with each other, humans talking to each other and pods of killer whales all have interactive conversations that are remarkably similar to each other, new research reveals. Cognitive science researchers at UC Merced have developed a new method for analyzing and comparing the...

Campus Celebrates Community at Homecoming

October 11, 2017
UC Merced’s Homecoming Oct. 20-22 will draw students, staff, faculty, alumni, family and friends together for a weekend of activities that highlight the campus and the community. For the first time, three major campus events are being combined into a larger celebration. At Homecoming, alumni...

Valley Public Radio: Researcher Continues Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

October 11, 2017
Prof. Miriam Barlow is interviewed about her research into antibiotic resistant bacteria, which cause around 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.

‘Energize Colleges’ Sustainability Internships Available

October 10, 2017
UC Merced’s sustainability office is seeking undergraduate students who are thinking about careers in energy to fill this fall’s Energize Colleges internships. UC Merced is one of 12 college and university campuses across California that offer undergraduate students internships...

Another First for Nobile: NIH Outstanding Investigator Award

October 10, 2017
Professor Clarissa Nobile is changing the way we look at microbes. She wants to understand them as they’re found in nature, not as they exist in the laboratory. And she was just awarded a five-year, $1.89 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster her efforts....

Open Enrollment Benefits Fair for Faculty and Staff

October 9, 2017
The UC Merced Faculty and Staff Open Enrollment Benefits Fair is an annual fall tradition. RSVP by Oct. 19, and the Human Resources Benefits Office will even have lunch ready for you. The event will go from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, in the Joseph E. Gallo Recreation and Wellness...

Interdisciplinary Collaborations Broaden Archaeology Research

October 9, 2017
Archaeologists have been asking where high-elevation populations came from for decades; how they are going about answering the question, however, is new. “Fifty years ago, I would have consulted other archaeologists,” UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer said. “It used to be the...

Photographer’s Exhibit Depicts Students’ Decade-Long Journeys

October 5, 2017
Through a series of black-and-white photographic portraits taken 10 years apart, photographer Roger J. Wyan’s “Transitions” exhibit explores the journeys of some of UC Merced’s first students during an influential period of growth in their lives. In 2005-06, Wyan...

Conference Boosts Students’ Leadership Skills, Confidence

October 5, 2017
UC Merced students had the chance to gain knowledge and leadership skills for their personal and academic careers at the 2017 Leadership Conference, hosted by the campus’s Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center on Sept. 23. Now in its 11th year, the annual conference was redesigned to help...

The Fresno Bee: Why play national anthem at a sporting event?

October 4, 2017
Following the recent NFL controversy, lecturer Mark T. Harris questions the need to play the Star-Spangled Banner before games.

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