By Christy Snyder, Graduate Division

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Will Shadish Memorial Fellowship Announced for Giving Tuesday

Will ShadishDuring this year’s Giving Tuesday — an international day of giving held each year on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving — UC Merced will honor Professor Will Shadish with a new graduate student fellowship fund.

Grad Students Help Begin Academic Exchange With Honduras

UC Merced graduate students talked with UNAH Sociology students on their first night in Honduras.Four UC Merced graduate students got a rare opportunity to establish and strengthen relationships be

Undocumented Student Makes History With Ph.D.

Yuriana AguilarA doctoral degree is the culmination of years of study and hard work — a mark of determination, willpower and excellence in research and scholarship.

For GradSLAM Champion, Research Is Personal

Arturo DurazoArturo Durazo, winner of this year’s UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, has a personal connection to his research.

New Lecture Series Articulates Campus’s Core Values

Carlos Castillo-Chavez has had, by all accounts, an extraordinarily successful academic career.

He began as an immigrant from Mexico City and wound up researching and teaching at Cornell University for 18 years before moving to Arizona State University in 2004 — with multiple awards and honors in between.

But he didn’t do it alone.