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Grawemeyer education winner focuses on the racial inequality of college funding cuts

April 14, 2024
The 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education was won by Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen for their book, "Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities." Laura Hamilton is a professor and chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of...

CRES Earns Mellon Grant for Student-led Activities

April 2, 2024
UC Merced's Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) is among 95 programs recognized and supported by the Mellon Foundation in an initiative called Affirming Multivocal Humanities. CRES will use a $100,000 grant from the foundation to kick-start several student-led activities designed to raise...

Most Valley voters skipped the primary election. Experts say why - and what it means for November

March 15, 2024
Nate Monroe, political science professor at UC Merced, said voters broadly fit into three categories: 1). Those who vote out of a sense of duty in every election; 2). Those who vote during an election to express a certain opinion or 3). Those who vote with the belief their participation may be...

Key business world priorities aren't on the table as DC's immigration debate comes to a head

February 1, 2024
"It's become a huge issue and you already have a slowing or ceasing of semiconductor facility build-outs," notes Greg Wright, a professor of economics at the University of California Merced who is focused on the labor market impacts of globalization and immigration.  ...

Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing, study finds

January 27, 2024
It’s also hard to know whether or how the brain activity in the new study might translate into real-life improvements in learning or memory, said Ramesh Balasubramaniam, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Merced, who wasn’t involved in the research.   Read more...

Bill Ackman's battle with the Ivy League is about more than DEI: Gen Z are graduating without the right behavioral and emotional skills for the workplace

January 24, 2024
Charlie Eaton, a sociology professor at UC Merced and the author of Bankers in the Ivory Tower, says that while former business leaders hold few presidencies, they nonetheless wield outsize influence—reflected in the number of executives who sit on university boards and in the growing clout...

California Forces Migrant Farmworker Students to Move Every Year: “We Need to Survive”

December 8, 2023
According to Ed Flores, faculty director of the UC Merced Community and Labor Center, the 50-year-old housing qualifications for migrants are outdated. They were set up for a vastly different migrant population, one primarily made up of men who were single or whose families remained in Mexico. To...

Visiting the ER for This Reason Increases Your Risk for Early Death

December 8, 2023
According to a 2022 study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, if you've been to the ER with an injury and you are inebriated or have alcohol use disorder (AUD), you might be looking at an early death. In fact, you are five times more at risk of dying in the next 12 months...

Cognitive Science Professor’s First Book Released by Princeton University Press

November 6, 2023
Cognitive Science Professor Paul Smaldino has astronomically high hopes for his new book. “I hope literally everyone reads this book,” Smaldino said. “Modeling Social Behavior” is a textbook, so it probably won’t make the New York Times bestseller list any time soon,...

Labor, Community-based Groups Key to Addressing Climate Change, Study Shows

November 2, 2023
A new study by sociology Professor Paul Almeida and colleagues in the Nature Portfolio’s journal npj Climate Action indicates labor unions and community-based groups have the best chance of getting people to act. They can also help overcome some impediments to action, such as misinformation,...

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