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Prestigious Biennial Grant Program Includes Funding for Ag-labor and Wildfire Research
January 14, 2021
Two new projects designed and led by UC Merced researchers will address challenges facing many Californians — wildfire recovery and agricultural labor — but will also have global reach. Both are funded through the University of California’... Read More
Month of Giving Surpasses Fundraising Goal
January 13, 2021
During December, the Give to UC Merced 2020 initiative tripled the campus’s goal of raising $50,000. The final tally: $163,000 raised for a variety of campus initiatives and programs. The fundraising initiative has traditionally been held... Read More
A Year to Remember: UC Merced Made the Most of 2020
January 12, 2021
There was an undeniable feeling of optimism and excitement in January 2020, as the calendar turned to a new year at the University of California, Merced. The university would be welcoming its fourth chancellor in the summer, and... Read More
UC Merced: Looking Back on 2020
January 12, 2021
There was an undeniable feeling of optimism and excitement in January 2020, as the calendar turned to a new year at the University of California, Merced. The university would be welcoming its fourth chancellor in the summer, and... Read More
Library Acquires Ernest Lowe Photography Collection Documenting 1960s Rural California Communities
December 7, 2020
In the 1960s, Ernest Lowe took his camera into the rural towns of California’s Central Valley, documenting the lives and struggles of farm-working communities. Sixty years later, these photos are available to the public through UC Merced,... Read More
Scholarship and Community Partnerships Continue with Renewed Luce Foundation Grant
September 22, 2020
It has been two years since UC Merced received the $280,000 Henry Luce Foundation grant, but its community engaged research endeavors are far from over. This fall, UC Merced Interdisciplinary Humanities graduate students and faculty will... Read More
Founding UC Merced Faculty Member Appointed to the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
September 2, 2020
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery has announced that UC Merced Art History Professor ShiPu Wang has joined the museum’s Board of Commissioners for a four-year term. His appointment was approved by the Smithsonian Institution Board... Read More
Professor’s Documentary Film about Refugee Family Honored at Vienna International Festival
May 7, 2020
“Songs that Never End,” Professor Yehuda Sharim’s intimate film about a family transitioning from Iran to life in Texas, is a finalist contender in the International Documentary Film Festival Vienna and will stream on the festival’s site... Read More
UC Merced Professor Arias Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
April 10, 2020
Arturo Arias, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation professor in the Humanities at UC Merced, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his ground-breaking study of contemporary indigenous novels from Guatemala and Mexico.... Read More
Whiting Fellowship Will Help Build Refugee View into High School Curricula
March 12, 2020
The Whiting Public Engagement Program has awarded a $50,000 fellowship to Professor Ma Vang for her efforts to integrate the experiences of refugees into education for high school students in Merced County and beyond. “This fellowship... Read More
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