Art & Culture

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New Lecture Series Draws Distinguished Maya Scholars
April 5, 2016
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UC Merced Professor Arturo Arias, recently named one of the campus’s first John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chairs, has established a new lecture series to further critical race issues and ethnic knowledge of Mesoamerican and Latin... Read More
Events Planned to Increase Sexual Assault Awareness
March 31, 2016
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UC Merced’s Campus Advocacy, Resources and Education (CARE) Office will kick off Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) on April 1 with numerous events. The month of education is an effort to increase awareness about sexual assault,... Read More
Campus Hosts Exhibit to Counter Violence
March 29, 2016
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The Victory Over Violence (VOV) exhibit is on display through April 1 in the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library, Room 355, to help raise awareness of the need to overcome violence. The VOV exhibit consists of a series of 12 panels with... Read More
Students Part of ‘Symbiotic’ Effort to Meld Art With Science
March 28, 2016
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Graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan translated her love of science into four separate college degrees. She holds bachelor’s degrees in biology, chemistry, and environmental and sustainability studies, and a master’s in biochemistry... Read More
Campus Celebrates LGBT+ Culture During Pride Week
March 23, 2016
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UC Merced’s Pride Week kicks off March 28. The weeklong celebration is hosted by Lambda Alliance and LGBTQ+ Initiatives in the Office of Student Life. It’s a collaborative effort to affirm the LGBT+ community by providing... Read More
Students Can Catch Up, Save Up With Summer Session
March 17, 2016
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Completing degree requirements in eight semesters can be challenging for many students. Add a minor, a job or a semester abroad, and students can easily find themselves playing catch-up. That’s why UC Merced senior Shelby Smith, a... Read More
Dean Earns NEH Support for Book on Madrid Attacks
February 25, 2016
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Jill Robbins, dean of the UC Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the completion of her book about the role of poetry in the... Read More
Two Professors Named Campus’s First MacArthur Chairs
February 18, 2016
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Two UC Merced faculty members with distinguished, international research careers recently became the campus’s first John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chairs. Professor Mark Aldenderfer, who served as dean of the School of Social... Read More
New Dean Inspired by Campus’s Innovative Spirit
February 9, 2016
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With two decades of experience at prominent American research universities, Jill Robbins has a good feel for what works and what doesn’t in academia. That’s partly because change comes so slowly to most established institutions... Read More
Harvard Professor to Speak on How Culture Changes the World
February 9, 2016
Harvard University Professor Doris Sommer will present UC Merced’s fourth annual Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities at noon Feb. 22 in the California Room on campus. Sommer’s talk, “The Work of Art in the World:... Read More