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Journalist to Speak on Immigration at Campus Conference

Journalist Roberto Lovato will give the keynote address this week at “Blurring the Border: Deporting Denizens in the 21st Century,” an interdisciplinary conference on immigration, deportation and citizenship in the United States.

The conference, which is free and open to the public, will be held April 17 and 18 in the California Room on campus. Lovato’s talk, “Immigration Reform is (Still) Dead: Time to Destroy the Deportation Nation,” will begin at 7 p.m. Friday.

Study: Real-World Negotiators Bargain More Fairly

Brad LeVeckExperienced policymakers are more likely to make fair offers in bargaining than the average person, and less likely to accept low offers — even if it means both sides get nothing. 

Two Grad Students Earn Prestigious NSF Fellowships

UC Merced graduate students Theo Crouch II and Lauren Edwards recently were awarded fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

Three Students Chosen to Further Carbon Neutrality Efforts

Alex Newman, left, Gabriel Morabe, standing, and Adriana Gomez are this semester's Carbon Neutrality Fellows.Three UC Merced undergraduates are the recipients of a new fellowship under University of California President Ja

Environmental Systems Student Wins Inaugural GradSLAM! Event

GradSLAM winner Nathaniel Bogie and Dean Marjorie ZatzThis week marked the end of the first-ever UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, in which graduate students were given just thre

Floodplain Management Can Increase Groundwater Supply

Flood conditions along the Cosumnes River allow researchers to study groundwater recharge.California’s groundwater is being rapidly depleted because cities and farms extract more than is replenished naturally, compacting local aquifers a

Sociologist Earns Fulbright Scholar Award to Study in Honduras

Paul AlmeidaPaul Almeida, a sociology professor at the University of California, Merced, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to study non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their role in co

Musical Sheds Light on Lives of Undocumented Youth

In and Out of Shadows,” a musical by famed Chicano writer and Fresno native Gary Soto, is coming to Merced for a special one-night-only show on April 11. Performed by the San Francisco Youth Theatre DREAM ensemble, the show will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Merced Theatre’s Art Kamangar Center, 301 W. Main St. Tickets are $5 at the door.