Arts and Culture
May 22, 2013
Alumnus Justin Duckham serves as a senior Washington correspondent with Talk Radio News Service.As a founding student at UC Merced, Justin Duckham, ’09, trudged up the hill every day for classes. Now, he spends...
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April 1, 2013
Kelly McNeil decided to enter the art show with her piece "Missionary to the Mole: Emily Dickinson" after taking two classes last semester.UC Merced artists are sharing their best work this semester in the...
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February 25, 2013
A pioneering American novelist and a former California Poet Laureate will be the keynote speakers at two April events being organized by graduate students and faculty in World Cultures.
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February 20, 2013
Annual display of varied research includes scientific discussions with students and faculty, a symposium by the Sierra Nevada Research Institute and a tour of planned natural reserve . Researchers at the...
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January 30, 2013
A powerful one-woman play that explores the troubling world of physical and sexual abuse debuts Feb. 23 as part of Arts UC Merced Presents.
“Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men,” written and performed by actress/poet/...
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January 15, 2013
UC Merced Professor Cristián H. Ricci has been awarded a one-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue his research on Moroccan literature. University of California, Merced, literature...
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January 14, 2013
Chinese history professor Ruth Mostern and collaborators are building a history database with funding from the National Science Foundation.The path from ancient China to information science might seem like a long one,...
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November 28, 2012
Students Michael Lane, front left, and Amanda Baijnauth, front right, write for softmatterworld.org with the help of Professor Linda Hirst, Merritt Writing Program Assistant Director Paul Gibbons and webmaster Adam...
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November 13, 2012
UC Merced is one of only seven universities nationwide to receive a grant from the Council of Graduate Schools to develop new approaches for enhancing graduate student skills for assessing undergraduate learning, and...
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October 22, 2012
Author Matthew Garcia will speak about his new book on Oct. 22.The author of a controversial new book offering fresh insight into Cesar Chavez and the labor union he led will speak Oct. 22 at UC Merced.
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September 19, 2012
Professor Arnold Kim performs his music from time to time in the Bay Area.Professor Arnold Kim’s music couldn’t be more different than that of student-staff-alumni band Feeling Gravity’s Pull.
Kim’s The Yellow Hope...
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September 17, 2012
"A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California" by artist and naturalist Laura Cunningham is this year's Common Read book.A richly illustrated book tracing centuries of change in the California...
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August 31, 2012
The UC Merced Center for the Humanities will explore a thematic topic using four different lenses — literature, digital technology, creative arts and public humanities. . With the help of a $2 million gift, UC...
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August 22, 2012
The Lula Washington Dance Theatre will visit Merced on Sept. 29 as part of a 10-city tour throughout California, sponsored in part by the James Irvine Foundation.UC Merced will bring the acclaimed Lula Washington Dance...
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August 6, 2012
Catalina Hernandez with her youngest child.Catalina Hernandez, UC Merced's first Human Rights Center fellow, is spending this summer exploring how women decide to seek help from a midwife for childbirth instead of an...
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July 16, 2012
Graduate student Graham Thompson and undergraduate student Priscilla Montez this summer will ask people to arrange animal names on a whiteboard to express how they conceptualize the semantic relations among them. From...
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June 6, 2012
Graduate student Michael Eissinger recently published a book about the Madera County community of Fairmead.An academic focus on the Central Valley region’s historically African-American communities brought Michael...
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May 14, 2012
UC Merced Professor Katherine Steele Brokaw, left, directs music theater lecturer and professional opera singer Jenni Samuelson and student Justin Choi for the upcoming debut of 'Ugh the Duck.'"Ugh the Duck," a...
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May 10, 2012
Grecia Sanchez, a Merced native, majored in sociology with a minor in political science and plans to attend law school.Grecia Sanchez and Blaine Hartsock know they’re more than lucky. Out of dozens of UC Merced seniors...
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May 8, 2012
Alma Fausto, who spent her four years at UC Merced working for the student-run newspaper The Prodigy, is heading to graduate school at the Columbia School of Journalism. When Alma Fausto first arrived at UC Merced in...
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