Social Sciences
March 6, 2012
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February 29, 2012
Leading Popol Vuh scholar Michael Coe will deliver a keynote address at 6:30 p.m. March 2 at the arts center to accompany the gallery opening.The Popol Vuh, the ancient Mayan creation myth, has permeated several...
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February 24, 2012
Doctoral candidate Kandice Soraya Grote is researching the cognitive benefits of bilingualism in children.Born in Nebraska to a Persian mother and a father whose military duty took the family to Europe for much of her...
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February 6, 2012
New center aims to improve the lives of the San Joaquin Valley's most underserved residents by empowering them to engage in research that supports their community’s issues. An innovative community-university...
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January 10, 2012
Professor Jessica L. Trounstine said there will be two political science subfields for graduate students to study at UC Merced. Graduate students interested in studying at UC Merced will have one more discipline to...
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December 5, 2011
At the Dec. 7 teach-in, sociology Professor Nella Van Dyke will discuss the factors that make social movements successful and how they relate to the Occupy movement. As the Occupy social movement sweeps across the...
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November 16, 2011
Undergraduates Stephanie Badillo, Lauriano Bucio and Joselyn Delgado use concepts learned from advisors S.A. Davis and Mark Harris to win the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Scholarship Competition.A group of UC...
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September 7, 2011
National Institutes of Health awards $2.6 million grant to researchers with UCSF and UC Merced to study tobacco programs at the state and local level. Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco,...
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September 2, 2011
Anthropology major David Brantley enjoys spending time on campus with his son, David, a fellow UC Merced student, and his three-month-old grandson, Dylan.David Brantley isn’t a typical UC Merced student.
He...
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June 30, 2011
UC Merced students took to the floor of the California Senate last week, sitting in the seats of the legislators they have portrayed all summer as a part of their Government in Action course.
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June 27, 2011
Interdisciplinary economics study reveals major rail transit system in Taiwan reduced air pollution in a meaningful way when it began operating. The opening of a major urban rail system in Taiwan caused a...
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June 17, 2011
Ann Hinesley-Perez's original academic plans didn't involve law school — or even UC Merced.
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June 13, 2011
UC Merced professor coauthors a study in the American Journal of Public Health that highlights cessation challenges posed by social smokers compared to regular smokers. Self-identified social smokers are less...
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June 2, 2011
Studying ancient remains, exploring caves, publishing books, leading workshops and presenting papers are just a handful of the things that will keep faculty busy this summer in the School of Social Sciences,...
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May 11, 2011
Before he ever set foot in a classroom, graduating senior Orisa Santiago Morrice learned at the feet of a great teacher. His grandmother cared for him during his preschool years in Santa Cruz.
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March 4, 2011
UC Merced Professor Rose Scott studies how young children begin to understand the social world and all its complexities.
It happens sooner than most would think.
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February 11, 2011
Political science professors at UC Merced, on average publish papers in leading journals and books with top university presses at the fastest rate in the system.
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January 7, 2011
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December 16, 2010
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