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Sonja Winter recognized with Will Shadish Graduate Student Fellowship

September 21, 2020
Sonja Winter, a PhD student in the Quantitative area, was recognized with the Will Shadish Graduate Student Fellowship, which pays tribute to Professor William Shadish (the first Professor in Psychological Sciences at UC Merced), who was instrumental to the creation of our campus and...

Sivenesi Subramoney awarded Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fellowship

September 1, 2020
Sivenesi Subramoney was awarded a 3-year fellowship from the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. This award will be used to support her research examine instnaces emotion brokering, in which an individual, typically a child, translates the emotion norms of a differnt culture for a...

Lukas Lopez Receives Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship

August 6, 2020
We are very pleased to announce that Lukas Lopez, a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology is the recipient of the Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship for 2020-21.    The Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship (GDDF) program is intended for students in...

Alumnus Peter Reschke recieves Honorable Mention for Dissertation Award

July 30, 2020
Peter Reschke, PhD, a graduate of the Developmental Psychology Program received Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Congress on Infant Studies.

$3.5 Million Hellman Endowment Expands Future of Research at UC Merced

July 26, 2020
Since 2011, the Hellman Fellows Fund has provided close to 60 UC Merced assistant professors with much-needed research support in the form of seed funding. The prestigious Hellman Fellowship has launched countless careers at UC Merced and across the UC system. Now, thanks to a generous new $3.5...

Three Awarded UC Pre-Professoriate Fellowships

July 8, 2020
UC Merced graduate students Anabel Castillo, Veronica Lerma and Sammy Villa are recipients of the University of California’s inaugural President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship (PPPF). The UC Office of the President launched the PPPF as part of its UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity...

Researcher Offers Guide to Coping with COVID-related Stress, Part II

June 10, 2020
Professor Matthew Zawadzki is with the Department of Psychological Sciences in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. His research examines social psychological processes as applied to health. This is the second of two parts. These are unusual times. In the midst of a pandemic that has...

Dr. Song Discusses the Impact of COVID-19 on Smokers

June 6, 2020
Dr. Anna Song, in her capacity as the director of the UC Merced Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center (NCPC), gave an interview to California's Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program about the disporportionate impact of COVID-19 on smokers.  http://trdrp.org/news/covid-19-impact-smokers...

Researcher Provides Helpful Guide to Coping with Stressful Times, Part I

June 3, 2020
Professor Matthew Zawadzki is with the Department of Psychological Sciences in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. His research examines social psychological processes as applied to health. This is the first of a two-part discussion. These are unusual times. In the midst of a...

Grad Students, Alums Receive NSF Research Fellowships

June 3, 2020
Two UC Merced Ph.D. students, a recent undergraduate and an alumna have each been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). The fellowship provides multiyear support to predoctoral students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The...

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