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Psychology Professor Studies How Best to Speed COVID-19 Recovery at Home

June 4, 2021
A UC Merced professor is collaborating with faculty from UCLA and the University of Illinois in a study that aims to find how people might best deal with COVID-19 at home. Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, a professor of health psychology and the director of the Lactation Attachment Technology and...

UC Merced Professor Studies How Best to Speed COVID-19 Recovery at Home

June 3, 2021
A UC Merced professor is collaborating with faculty from UCLA and the University of Illinois in a study that aims to find how people might best deal with COVID-19 at home. Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, a professor of health psychology and the director of the Lactation Attachment Technology and Child...

Smokers Light Up More Cigarettes Following California COVID-19 Lockdown Order, Study Finds

May 29, 2021
This study on smoking during COVID-19 published by a team of scientist including, among others, Anna Epperson, Dianna Halliday, and Anna Song was featured in a recent UC Merced news feed: https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2021/smokers-light-more-cigarettes-following-california-covid-19-lockdown-order-...

Psychology Graduate Students Received Awards in Campus-wide Competitions

May 26, 2021
A number of psychology graduate students have received awards recently in campus-wide competitions. The recipients were:  Janice Disla, President's Dissertation Year Fellowship Avia Gray, Fletcher Jones Fellowship Bianca Hinojosa, Fred and Mitzie...

Hinojosa Receives Fred and Mitzie Ruiz Fellowship

May 25, 2021
Graduate student Bianca Hinojosa received the Fred and Mitzie Ruiz Fellowship from the graduate school. This prestigious award is intended for students who bring to their academic reseearch careers the perspectives that comes from their non-traditional education background or understanding of...

Khislavsky, Howell, & Song win faculty senate awards in teaching, research, and public service respectively

May 5, 2021
Drs. Khislavsky, Howell, & Song were all recognized with awards during the Spring 2021 Meeting of the Merced Division of the UC Academic Senate.  The awards recieved were:  DR. ALEXANDER KHISLAVSKY, Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching by a Non-Senate Faculty...

Undergraduate Experience: Keanu Velasquez

April 27, 2021
Name: Keanu Velasquez Major: Sociology Major and Psychology Minor Year: Graduating May 2021, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Commencement Student Speaker Hometown: San Francisco What clubs or organizations were you part of at UC Merced? I was a member of the Pilipino-American...

Wiebe Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award for Child and Family Health Research

March 24, 2021
The Society of Behavioral Medicine Child and Family Health Special Interest Group has recognized Professor Deborah Wiebe with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to child and family health. She is the Society’s second Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from UC Merced’s Department...

Dr. Wiebe receives 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Child and Family Health

February 24, 2021
Deb Wiebe has been selected by the Society Behavioral Medicine's Child and Family Health Special Interest Group to receive its 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Child and Family Health. She will be presented with this award at the SBM annual meeting....

Subramoney Wins Best Poster Award at SPSP Emotion Preconference

February 10, 2021
Sivenesi (Siv) Subramoney was the co-winner of the Best Poster Award at the 2021 SPSP Emotion Pre-Conference.  The poster was titled: “Emotion brokering: Navigating cross-cultural differences in emotion norms”

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