Art & Culture

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New Art Gallery Showcases Student Photography
December 2, 2011
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UC Merced can add another first to its list — dedicated space for an art gallery. The UC Merced Art Gallery is in the northeast corner of the Social Science and Management Building, which opened this semester. The room was designed... Read More
Yale's World-Renowned Singing Group to Perform on Campus
September 8, 2011
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The Whiffenpoofs, Yale University's world-famous a cappella singing group, will make history when it performs this fall at the University of California, Merced. It will be the group's first visit to the San Joaquin Valley, and their first... Read More
Summer a Time to Focus on Innovative Research
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, Humanities and Arts. Though... Read More
History Student Fulfills Speaking Promise at Commencement
May 6, 2011
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Dulcemaria Anaya once vowed to represent her UC Merced class as the student speaker at commencement. Anaya, a world history major from Merced, was an incoming freshman when she made the promise to her mother and herself. Over the... Read More
Book Analyzes Chicano, Latino Film and Fiction in Los Angeles
January 28, 2011
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UC Merced Professor Ignacio López-Calvo's "Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety" will be published on Feb. 1 by the University of Arizona Press. López-Calvo's fifth single-authored book deals... Read More
Professors Launch Campus' First Journal of Literary and Cultural Criticism
January 14, 2011
Two UC Merced literature professors have launched the campus' first online literary journal through University of California's eScholarship.   Professors Ignacio López-Calvoand Cristián H. Ricciwill publish next... Read More