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Professor Jitske Tiemensma's research featured in Merced Sun-Star

October 22, 2014
Professor Jitske Tiemensma's research on the psychology of healing has recently been featured in the Merced Sun-Star!  She was also selected as a 2014 Hellman Fellow, which is supporting her innovative research into the connections between better chemotherapy tolerance and emotion...

UC Merced hosts Bilingualism Workshop

October 2, 2014
UC Merced Workshop to Explore Bilingualism This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together scholars from psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, and education to discuss research and issues around the topic of bilingualism. The workshop will start at 7 p.m. Friday with a keynote...

Professor Jeff Gilger Receives Grant Funding to Develop Virtual Center for Learning Disabilities

September 2, 2014
Psychology Professor Jeff Gilger and Blum Center interim Executive Director Steve Roussos are leading a two-year project to deveop a virtual center to support parents and caregivers, as well as health and other professionals in detecting and treating Merced County children with developmental...

UC Merced Psychological Sciences strongly represented at APS Convention

May 16, 2014
The UC Merced Psychological Sciences program will be strongly represented at the 26th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. The faculty and students will give 17 presentations at the convention, which takes place May 22nd through May 25th. The speakers are presentations are:...

Nikko Da Paz awarded Faculty Mentor Fellowship

May 9, 2014
Nikko Da Paz, a PhD student in Health Psychology, has been awarded the Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship. This fellowship will support Nikko's work with parents of children who have Autism Spectrum Disorder. Nikko is working with Professor Jan Wallander to develop an intervention that will...

Sarah Scott awarded President's Dissertation Fellowship

May 9, 2014
Sarah Scott, a PhD student in Health Psychology, has been awarded the President's Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2014-2015. Sarah received this fellowship for her dissertation work entitled "Resilience against depression over time in diverse youth: A multigroup latent curve modeling...

Psychology Faculty receive Senate Awards

May 9, 2014
Two Psychology faculty members were selected as recipients of the 2013-2014 Senate Awards. Professor Linda Cameron was awarded the Senate Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service. This award recognizes a faculty member who has energetically and creatively applied his or her professional...

Quant PhD students win UC Fellowships

May 2, 2014
UC Merced PhD students, Patrice Cobb and Nicole Zelinksy, have been awarded fellowships by the University of California Educational Evaluation Center. The Center's Research on Evaluation Student Paper Competition invited UC graduate students to submit research proposals for studies in the field...

Eric Walle featured in Merced Sun Star

April 18, 2014
Research by developmental psychology Professor Eric Walle was recently featured in a story by the Merced Sun Star. The piece focuses on his recent finding that language development is linked to the onset of walking in infancy. You can read the story here.

ECEC, Faculty Members Host Early Education Conference

February 7, 2014
On Jan. 25, UC Merced hosted a half-day conference for local early childhood educators entitled “Child Triumphs and Troubles: Language and Learning in the Early Years.”  Organized collaboratively by the Early Childhood Education Center and the Gateway Association for the Education...

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