Sociology professor Stephanie L. Canizales writes an insightful guest commentary about a California program for migrant children that could be a national model if legislators support it.
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Professor Charles Eaton's book "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education," is referenced in Business Insider article looking at university endowments.
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Professor ShiPu Wang joins Ueno in the episode “Reflection and Reconciliation: Legacies of the Japanese American Incarceration and the Arts,” to contextualize the various oral history recordings excerpted in the show.
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Children who are exposed to glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide worldwide, may suffer from liver inflammation and metabolic disorder in early adulthood, according to a new study by a team that includes Public Health Chair and Professor Asa Bradman.
The study, published in the journal...
Global Arts Studies Professor Yehuda Sharim’s film “El Ojo Comienza en la Mano,” a documentary about a Central Valley farm worker who never gave up his love of painting, has been garnering awards and nominations around the world since it came out in 2022.
The son of working-...
Teenie Matlock, Cognitive and Information Sciences professor and the McClatchy Chair in Communications, has been awarded the fourth Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building — one of the highest honors in the Cognitive Science Society.
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A new landmark study by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center shows farmworkers across California are facing serious health challenges on a daily basis.
The goal of the Farmworker Health Study was to examine agricultural worker health and well-being, in addition to health care...
Public Health Communication Professor Susana Ramirez talks about the implications of Madera losing its only hospital serving the community. Read more here.
For the first time, UC Merced faculty members from each of the campus’s three schools have been chosen as principal investigators on some of the 21 exciting new projects that are being funded through UC’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI). Read more here.
Civil society actors contested the fifty-year long transition to a global economy based on the principles of neoliberalism. Mobilization against neoliberal measures represents one of the most common forms of social-movement activity across the world. We explore the evolution of resistance to...
