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World Cultures Student Reconstructing Valley History

May 28, 2015
Michael Eissinger has an old black-and-white photograph of a farmer named Knox and his three teenage sons standing in a cotton field with a long, 100-pound bag of cotton. He holds up the photo at conferences and public talks and asks where it was taken — inevitably, someone guesses “...

Gift Establishes UC Merced Presidential Chair in the Humanities

February 9, 2015
The University of California, Merced, will soon benefit from increased leadership in the humanities, thanks to an anonymous $500,000 donation and a $500,000 match from the UC Office of the President.   The gift and match will establish a $1 million endowment to fund the UC Merced...

Campus, Community Programs Join to Prevent Obesity in Families

November 3, 2014
In an effort to combat the increasing rates of obesity among Latino residents, the University of California, Merced and the Merced County Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program will join forces. Funded by a three-year, $90,000 grant from National Institutes of Health’s Eunice...

Center Makes Maps Come to Life

February 26, 2014
Like many children on long car trips, Erin Mutch often asked "Where are we?" But instead of telling her, Mutch’s parents gave her a map to figure it out. Mutch's knack for using maps to tell bigger stories is a skill that's taken her to the Silicon Valley to work at a...

Historian Uses 'Big Data' to Study World History

January 14, 2013
The path from ancient China to information science might seem like a long one, but Ruth Mostern is walking it. Mostern, a history professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, is joining a team that will use more than $601,000 in National Science Foundation grants to start...

Ph.D. Alum Applies a Scholar's Mind to Patriotic Service

April 20, 2012
When Trevor Albertson (’09) started as the California deputy secretary for veterans services last summer, his longtime focus on higher education came in handy right away. Considering his department’s goal to help veterans achieve stability, he quickly saw that higher education was the...

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