On National Voter Registration Day, a new version of the California Report Card launched to engage the 30 percent of Californians who speak Spanish at home.

All content in this civic-engagement tool is now available in both English and Spanish, with rapid bilingual translation of textual input and a streamlined mobile interface, and the Spanish translation feature in Version 2.0 will be launched in collaboration with the Blum Center at the University of California, Merced.

Version 2.0 provides links to online voter registration and election resources.

Mark Aldenderfer, dean of School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, has been selected to serve as an associate editor of Science Advances, a new journal from the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

UC Merced is hosting a bilingualism workshop that brings together scholars from psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and education.

The workshop begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10 in the Dr. Lakireddy Auditorium with a keynote presentation by UC Berkeley Professor Lily Wong Fillmore on cultural diversity and teaching language-minority students. Fillmore will discuss what she sees as real issues stemming from a lack of attention to cultural diversity in our schools, and will offer suggestions both for school practice and for research.