Compelling storytelling is vital to ensuring the action needed to secure a habitable planet for future generations, according to an increasing amount of research.
UC Merced is recruiting students now to become the next environmental storytellers.
Students who are interested in creatively conveying...
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September 28, 2023
More than half of UC Merced's population is made up of Hispanic/Latinx students. There is no shortage of ways for Bobcats to get in touch with their roots on campus, in the community and even around the globe.
Taste of Latinx Cultures
UC Merced Dining Services is celebrating cultura with meals...
September 9, 2023
Professor Nicosia Shakes' book, "Women’s Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa: Gender, Race, and Performance Space," was published by University of Illinois Press. Concentrating on four performance events, Shakes situates the work of theater groups and projects...
September 9, 2023
English Literature Professor Katherine Steele Brokaw published a book titled, "Shakespeare and Community Performance."
This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation,...
September 9, 2023
Professor Yehuda Sharim's latest work, "El Ojo Comienza En La Mano" (The Eye Begins in The Hand, 2022), is the winner and finalist of more than seven international awards, including the Best Short Film 2023 at Rockport Film Festival, Oregon Documentary Film Festival (finalist)...
September 9, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Sociology Professors Susan Amussen and Manuel Martin Rodriguez were promoted to Distinguished Professor.
September 9, 2023
From UCI NEWS:
“Routes of Enslavement in the Americas,” led by Alex Borucki, associate professor of history at University of California, Irvine, is one of 21 projects receiving a 2023 Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives award from the University of California.
The $840,...
September 9, 2023
Professors Ma Vang and Nigel Hatton and co-authors Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um and Lila Sharif published a book titled "Departures An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies." The book supports, contextualizes ...
July 19, 2023
The University of California Board of Regents has appointed University of California, Merced graduate student Josiah Beharry to be the 2024-25 student Regent.
Beharry is the 50th student Regent, a position established in 1975. He will serve as the student Regent-designate for the coming year, able...
June 23, 2023
Global Arts Studies Professor Yehuda Sharim has published a new photo essay, “A Map of Light,” on the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI)’s digital platform Foundry.
This is the second piece Sharim has published on the collective platform. While “A Map of Light” is a...
