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Health professor's research on racial disparities in breastfeeding featured in the New York Times

September 7, 2017
A study by professor Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook (Health Psychology) and her collaborators was recently featured in the New York Times. The paper, which was recently published in the journal Pediatrics, tackles the hot-button issue of why there are such dramatic racial disparities in...

Graduate student Geraldy Martin-Gutierrez publishes paper in top journal

September 7, 2017
Geraldy Martin-Gutierrez, a graduate student in Health Psychology, recently had her first journal article accepted for publication in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The paper, which was based on Geraldy's pre-candidacy project, examines a broad range of health outcomes in Latina youth. Their...

Quantitative psychology professor makes new advances in Bayesian statistics

August 30, 2017
Sarah Depaoli (Associate Professor, Quantitative Psychology) made significant contributions to Bayesian statistics in Psychology through a series of recently published papers. Together with Jitske Tiemensma (Assistant Professor, Health Psychology), a paper was published in Health Psychology Review...

Health Psychology professor begins international collaboration on child development

August 22, 2017
Professor Jan Wallander just returned from a sabbatical leave spent at University of Auckland, New Zealand. In addition to providing seminars and guest lectures, he developed collaborations with an interdisciplinary team of researchers conducting the Growing Up in New Zealand study, a longitudinal...

Pioneering Alumna Embraces Career in Immigration Law

July 27, 2017
UC Merced alumna Linda Barreto always wanted to become a lawyer, but an experience in college helped reinforce her career path. While driving, Barreto was pulled over and cited for failing to stop before making a left turn. She decided to fight the citation in court because there was no requirement...

Researchers Eye Social Media’s Influence on Relationships, Stress

June 23, 2017
Nearly 70 percent of Americans use some form of social media, according to a Pew Research Center survey. There is little doubt it affects our daily lives — but how? UC Merced Ph.D. graduate Holly Rus recently defended her dissertation on social media and well-being. She and her advisor, Professor...

Psychology grad student participates in Graduate Research Advocacy Day

May 1, 2017
Health Psychology graduate student Patty Cabral recently participated in the University of California's 2017 Graduate Research Advocacy Day. Cabral was part of a delegation of UC graduate students who traveled to Sacramento on April 19 to talk about their research, and encourage lawmakers...

Fulbright Scholar in Search of ‘Lost Science’ in Brazil

April 17, 2017
Chris Fradkin, a UC Merced lecturer and alumnus, is heading to Brazil in search of “lost science.” The term, first coined in 1995 in a Scientific American article by W. Wayt Gibbs, refers to the untold amount of viable scientific research that goes unread and undiscovered due to the struggles and...

Researcher Tracking Teens Who Attempted Suicide

April 3, 2017
More than 120,000 young people ages 10 to 18 attempt suicide each year, and about 4,500 of those attempts are fatal. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among children ages 10-14 and the second among people 15 to 34 years old. More people die from suicide each year than from breast cancer...

Multicampus Grant Provides for Advances in Learning Interventions

March 29, 2017
UC Merced Professor Jeffrey Gilger is an integral part of a new intercampus effort to understand and reduce education-related risks in California’s young English-language learners. Funding for the three-year project comes from the University of California Office of the President’s annual...

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