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Artist-in-Residence Brings Theories of Flight to Classroom, Community

January 19, 2017
Spanish artist Olga Diego blends the concepts of art and engineering into the magic of flight. This semester, Diego is bringing her creativity and expertise to UC Merced as the campus’s newest artist-in-residence and lecturer. Diego, known partly for her playful and often-oversized inflatable...

Campus Provides ‘Inclusive Excellence’ Dialogue, Activities

January 19, 2017
Social Justice Initiatives and the Office of Campus Climate will host “Talking Circles,” a space to create dialogue about inclusive opportunities at UC Merced, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 20. The space is open to the campus community for reflection, quiet contemplation, crafting and individual ...

Cognitive Scientist Earns Early Career Impact Award

January 13, 2017
UC Merced Professor Rick Dale is a recipient of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) Early Career Impact Award from the Society for Computers in Psychology. Dale, a cognitive scientist in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, studies how our bodies...

History Professor to Give Talk in Turlock on the Graphic Novel

January 11, 2017
UC Merced history Professor Mario Sifuentez will present a lecture, “Histories and the Graphic Novel,” at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15. Sifuentez will discuss how the medium of the graphic novel has shaped history and how history has shaped the medium. The talk will...

Study: Early High-Altitude Settlers Were Hunter-Gatherers, Not Farmers

January 5, 2017
A new paper by UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer begins to settle a longstanding debate over when people began permanently occupying higher elevations of the Tibetan Plateau, and shows communities did not have to be based around agriculture and domesticated animals to be permanent. “Permanent...

Professor’s Himalayan Archaeological Finds Documented on ‘NOVA’

January 3, 2017
Join UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer as he and his colleagues explore the world’s highest cave tombs, revealing new details about the lives of the people who settled the Himalaya, in the season premiere of “NOVA” on PBS. In “Secrets of the Sky Tombs,” archaeologist Aldenderfer and fellow...

Researchers to Discuss Strong Family Relationships in Symposium

December 20, 2016
UC Merced will host its fourth annual Symposium on the Child and Family from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Jan. 28, offering a day of talks by researchers on the theme of “Strong Families: Fostering Healthy Parent-Child Relationships and Child Development.” The symposium is designed to be of interest to...

Message From Chancellor Leland on Student Jennifer Mendiola

December 7, 2016
The following message from Chancellor Dorothy Leland was sent to the campus community today, Dec. 7: Dear UC Merced Campus Community, It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that I write today to inform you that graduate student Jennifer Mendiola has been confirmed as one of the victims who...

'Revolutionary Theatre' Performance to Explore Racism, Inequality

November 28, 2016
Students in the UC Merced Global Arts Studies Program will present “Voices of the Revolutionary Theatre Collective” Dec. 8 at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center. The production will explore the history of embedded racism through excerpts from the plays of Luis Valdez, Marvin X, Ben Caldwell,...

High-Altitude Archaeology Uncovers Earliest Evidence of Potato Consumption

November 28, 2016
Every French fry, gnocchi, tater tot and order of hash browns humans have eaten in the past 5,000 years can be traced back to one place in the world — northwestern Bolivia and southern Peru. A paper by UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer and Assistant Project Scientist Claudia Rumold — recently...

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