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April 11, 2016
A single mother in Guatemala works at a factory owned by a U.S. company, but doesn’t make enough money to support her family. She emigrates to the U.S. and finds a low-paying job with no benefits and no unemployment insurance, and when she gets injured, her son has to find a job.
But he has...
April 11, 2016
If you want to understand how plant populations will respond as the climate changes, just examine the plants in different locations.
That’s one of the conclusions drawn by UC Merced School of Natural Sciences Professor Jason Sexton in a new paper that’s part of a special issue of the...
April 11, 2016
UC Merced lecturer Carol Sipan became concerned with the social stigma of HIV in some developing countries after a 2009 trip to Burundi, where she and a colleague from Tanzania were training pastors and church leaders on what they and their congregations could do to reduce HIV and its impact in...
April 11, 2016
In addition to ensuring a safe and secure campus environment, UC Merced police officers and staff members are interacting with the campus and local community on an ongoing basis.
This semester’s Citizen Police Academy began in January with the largest number of UC Merced campus members since...
April 11, 2016
UC Merced Professor Arturo Arias, recently named one of the campus’s first John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chairs, has established a new lecture series to further critical race issues and ethnic knowledge of Mesoamerican and Latin American peoples.
The MacArthur Lecture Series, an element...
April 11, 2016
Cloth remains found in the Samdzong tomb complex in Nepal by UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer suggest the village might have been part of the long-distance trade network of the Silk Road.
Textile and dye analyses of the cloth — the results of which were published recently in the journal...
April 11, 2016
Home-based interventions that teach parents to engage children in playful interactive learning activities can close the cognitive development gap between disadvantaged children and higher-resource peers, according to a new study led by UC Merced Professor Jan Wallander.
The study, published this...
April 4, 2016
Last fall, the Division of Student Affairs and the Office Undergraduate Education launched an internship program with the goal of providing undergraduate students an opportunity to build experience and skills related to their career ambitions and to integrate them with their academic learning....
April 4, 2016
Representatives with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are at UC Merced from April 26-28 to enroll travelers in the agency’s PreCheck program. The event takes place in KL 201.
Enrollment sign-ups at UC Merced are open to everyone including faculty and staff members, students...
March 31, 2016
The editorial board for linguistics journal Lingua resigned last November following failed negotiations with publisher Elsevier. The same editorial board went on to begin Glossa, a new open-access journal now open for submissions.
While Lingua continues for now, several UC linguistics faculty...
