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Beattie publishes article in top Higher Education journal

May 18, 2016
Professor Irenee Beattie has published an article on inequality in higher education in the Journal of Higher Education, a top interdisciplinary journal, along with her co-author, Professor Megan Thiele at San Jose State University.  The article, “Connecting in Class? College Class Size...

Professor Hamilton new book on helicopter parenting with University of Chicago Press

May 10, 2016
So-called “helicopter parents” — those who hover over their children even into and through their college years — are often criticized for creating overly sheltered, unprepared young adults who boomerang back home. UC Merced Professor Laura Hamilton In her new book...

New Book Shows Pros and Cons of Helicopter Parenting

May 10, 2016
So-called “helicopter parents” — those who hover over their children even into and through their college years — are often criticized for creating overly sheltered, unprepared young adults who boomerang back home. In her new book, “Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College Women’s...

Hamilton Selected for Early Career Award from William T Grant Scholars Program

April 16, 2016
Professor Hamilton has been selected as one of only five scholars for the 2016 Early Career Researchers award from the prestigious William T Grant Foundation.  The grant will provide five years of funding for her research on the conditions leading to successful outcomes for disadvantaged...

Sociologist Shows Human Side of Deportation in New Book

April 12, 2016
A single mother in Guatemala works at a factory owned by a U.S. company, but doesn’t make enough money to support her family. She immigrates to the U.S. and finds a low-paying job with no benefits and no unemployment insurance, and when she gets injured, her son has to find a job. But he has...

Grad Student Marcus Shaw Gives Invited Talk at Cal State Stanislaus

February 25, 2016
Third year UC Merced Sociology graduate student Marcus Shaw shared the findings of his research at Cal State University Stanislaus' Sociology Colloquium Series on February 25. He presented his invited talk,"Parental Incarceration and the Intergenerational Demobilization of ...

Sociology Graduate Student Recognized for Community-based Research

February 12, 2016
Maria Mora was awarded UC Merced's Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) Graduate Student Award for the 2015-2016 academic cycle. The award is sponsored by the UC Merced Resource Center for Community Engaged Scholarship (ReCCES) and is given for research that has both a community benefit and...

Local Mercedian Documents Road to UCM Sociology Degree

December 16, 2015
Angel Barragan took the long road to UC Merced. Growing up here, there and everywhere in the state, the high school dropout focused on survival. An injury ended his career in construction, but opened the door for him to pursue his dream of education and ministering to others. At 34, the sociology...

Professor Golash-Boza publishes book on deportations with New York University Press

December 11, 2015
Tanya Golash-Boza’s book Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism was released on December 11, 2015 from New York University Press. Deported is a timely, provocative, and insightful book about mass deportation, an issue of tremendous contemporary public importance...

Valdez publishes book on entrepreneurs and the American Dream with Routledge

December 10, 2015
Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream explores several "myths" associated with American entrepreneurship: the idea that small business owners are "job creators"; that entrepreneurs are the "backbone" or "engine" of the economy; that...

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