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UC Awards $16.4 Million in Grants to Address Climate, Energy and Health

January 9, 2023
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). In addition, UC Merced researchers are...

Marieke Visser Obtained her Ph.D. and Participated in the Winter Commencement

December 21, 2022
Marieke Visser obtained her Ph.D. and participated in the winter commencement. https://uc-merced.foleon.com/public-relations/commencement-fall-2022/  She defended her dissertation earlier entitled "Addressing Common Covariate Modeling Issues in Latent Class Models,"...

Professor Contributes to New Report on Health and Climate Change that Paints Grim Picture

October 26, 2022
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change warns that global health is at the mercy of fossil fuels. An accompanying policy brief states that an estimated 32,000 people in the U.S. died due to air pollution in 2020 alone; 37% of those deaths were directly related to fossil...

Latinas in Law: Alumnae Advocate for Immigrants in Valley

October 17, 2022
Linda Barreto ('08), Jessica Jaramillo Perez ('14) and Alejandra Tenorio Zurita ('20) all knew at a young age that they wanted to become lawyers. What they didn't know, however, was that UC Merced would play a pivotal role in merging their paths to create a powerhouse that advocates for hundreds of...

Psi Chi Recruiting New Members

September 28, 2022

Martin Hagger published an article in Annals of Behavioral Medicine

September 15, 2022
Martin Hagger published an article in Annals of Behavioral Medicine on on a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to promote COVID-19 prevention behaviors using imagery, persuasive communication, and planning. This was with collaborators from Griffith University and University of the...

Heather Bortfeld published an article on fNIRS applications in the domain of human brain function

September 15, 2022
Heather Bortfeld published an article on fNIRS applications in the domain of human brain function. Appears in flagship journal for Society for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (SfNIRS) and provides a comprehensive overview.   https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neurophotonics/...

Five Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

September 7, 2022
Two UC Merced doctoral students and three undergraduate alumni have each earned a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). The fellowships are highly competitive, with annual acceptance rates of about 16% from among more than 12,000 applicants. The five-year fellowship...

An article co-authored by Martin Hagger was awarded the Behavioral Sciences 2020 Best Paper Award.

August 25, 2022
An article co-authored by Martin Hagger was awarded the Behavioral Sciences 2020 Best Paper Award. The article is entitled "Social Cognition and Socioecological Predictors of Home-Based Physical Activity Intentions, Planning, and Habits during the COVID-19 Pandemic" and is open access:...

Martin Hagger published an article in European Journal of Health Psychology on the factors associated with use of neuroenhancers (e.g., Adderall, Ritalin) in students with colleagues from the University of Rome, Italy

August 25, 2022
Martin Hagger published an article in European Journal of Health Psychology on the factors associated with use of neuroenhancers (e.g., Adderall, Ritalin) in students with colleagues from the University of Rome, Italy.   Galli, F., Chirico, A., Mallia, L., Alivernini, F., Manganelli, S...

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