Social Sciences

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Bodie Digital Preservation Project Earns CITRIS Grant
April 18, 2016
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... Read More
Symposium Features Faculty Research on the ‘Developing Child’
April 15, 2016
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... Read More
For GradSLAM Champion, Research Is Personal
April 15, 2016
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Arturo Durazo, winner of this year’s UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, has a personal connection to his research. The fifth-year Ph.D. candidate studies the psychological effects of debilitating illnesses. Most recently, he has been... Read More
Sociologist Shows Human Side of Deportation in New Book
April 12, 2016
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A single mother in Guatemala works at a factory owned by a U.S. company, but doesn’t make enough money to support her family. She immigrates to the U.S. and finds a low-paying job with no benefits and no unemployment insurance, and... Read More
Ancient Textile Discovery Suggests More Southern Route for Silk Road
April 7, 2016
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Cloth remains found in the Samdzong tomb complex in Nepal by UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer suggest the village might have been part of the long-distance trade network of the Silk Road. Textile and dye analyses of the cloth —... Read More
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
Study: In-Home Parent Training Levels Field for Low-Income Kids
April 5, 2016
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Home-based interventions that teach parents to engage children in playful interactive learning activities can close the cognitive development gap between disadvantaged children and higher-resource peers, according to a new study led by UC... 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