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UC Merced Well-Represented at California Sociological Association Conference

November 9, 2023
Nearly a dozen UC Merced graduate students and graduate alumni participated in the annual California Sociological Association (CSA) Conference in Sacramento on Nov. 3-4. The theme of this year’s CSA conference centered on “Sociology and Praxis: The Labor and Obligations of Creating a More Just...

Veterans Upward Bound Program to Provide Wraparound Support for Servicemembers

November 9, 2023
Veterans with aspirations to pursue higher education will have access to new resources and support through the Veterans Upward Bound Program at UC Merced. This year, the university was selected as one of the recipients of the Department of Education (DOE) grant, which helps to provide first-...

Black Excellence Symposium at UC Merced Aims to Advance Racial Justice

November 7, 2023
UC Merced hosted the annual Black Excellence Symposium on Nov. 3. Stemming from the Valuing Black Lives Initiative , the symposium has aimed to advance racial justice and Black liberation at UC Merced since 2021. "I hope that participants take away some new knowledge, that they make helpful...

First-Generation Students Offer Advice for Those Who Come Next

November 7, 2023
Nearly 65 percent of UC Merced's undergraduate students are the first in their families to go to college. Being a college student of any kind can be a thrilling, confusing, challenging, exciting, overwhelming experience, sometimes all at once. When you're the first in your family to go to college,...

Cognitive Science Professor’s First Book Released by Princeton University Press

November 6, 2023
Cognitive science Professor Paul Smaldino has astronomically high hopes for his first book. “I hope literally everyone reads this book,” Smaldino said. “Modeling Social Behavior” is a textbook, so it probably won’t make the New York Times bestseller list any time soon, but it is definitely going...

Annual Tradition Marks Start of Native American Heritage Month at UC Merced

November 1, 2023
The UC Merced Toloma 5K event was held over the weekend to mark the beginning of Native American Heritage Month. "Toloma" is Miwuk for "bobcat", and the annual event pays tribute to the tradition of distance running amongst indigenous tribes for communication as well as competition. UC Merced...

UC Merced Named Fulbright HSI Leader by the U.S. Department of State

October 30, 2023
  UC Merced has been designated a Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Leader for 2023 by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). Each year, the ECA recognizes the strong engagement of select HSIs within the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's...

Film, Poetry, Philosophy the Subjects of Three Foundry Pieces by Humanities Community

October 30, 2023
The new issue of Foundry, a digital platform similar to a magazine, assembled by the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), features works by three members of the UC Merced campus community. The issue features an interview with Global Arts Studies Professor Yehuda Sharim...

Toloma 5K Honors Native American Heritage at UC Merced

October 25, 2023
  Ahead of Native American Heritage Month, the Toloma 5K will return to UC Merced on Saturday, Oct. 28 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event has been held since 2021, and not only raises money for Native American activities on campus but preserves tradition while acknowledging the campus's location on...

Sharim’s Films Honored at More than 80 Festivals Worldwide

October 25, 2023
Professor Yehuda Sharim 's film entitled “El Ojo Comienza En La Mano,” which he calls a tribute to campesino histories in rural California told through the art of local farm worker and painter Rubén Sanchéz, will be featured at the Oscar-nominated International Film Festival in St. Louis in early...

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