UC Merced Student a Winner at Clinton Event

Student Haithi Dang and former President Bill Clinton at the CGI U event.Besides attending Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) with 1,200 other college students from arou

Psychology Student Earns Ford Predoctoral Fellowship

Patricia CabralDoctoral student Patricia Cabral, who studies adolescent health risk behaviors in the Psychological Sciences graduate group, recently won a highly-competitive 

Bodie Digital Preservation Project Earns CITRIS Grant

UC Merced Professor Nicola Lercari is leading an effort to preserve, through 3-D renderings, the deteriorating ghost town of Bodie.

Thanks to $60,000 in seed funding from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Lercari and his team will be continuing and expanding the project for another year.

Symposium Features Faculty Research on the ‘Developing Child’

UC Merced will host its third annual Symposium on the Child and Family on April 30, offering hours of talks by researchers on the theme of “The Developing Child in a Developing World.”

The symposium has grown throughout its three years, said co-organizer and Professor Jeff Gilger, and this year is no exception. Gilger said the topics that will be presented should be of particular interest to parents and educators throughout the region.

Many UC Merced faculty members will be speaking about their research, including:

Small Business Development Center Receives National Accreditation

The UC Merced Small Business Development Center (UCM-SBDC) has received full reaccreditation by the Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC), a national accrediting agency. 

Two Alumni Create Legacies Through Scholarship Endowments

Marko Zivanovic, Chancellor Dorothy Leland and JaeJae JulianJessica “JaeJae” Julian (2010) and Marko Zivanovic (2014) are proving that giving back shortly after graduation can be possible.