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Dr. Andrea N. Polonijo Publishes in Health & Social Care in the Community

March 1, 2022
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Graduate Student, Amalia Pérez Martín Publishes

March 1, 2022
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Dr. Meredith Van Natta Receives Fellowship

February 28, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Meredith Van Natta for receiving the Faculty Success Initiative-Extramural Funding Fellowship (Public Health)!

Native American Tribe Grapples with Missing Women Crisis

February 25, 2022
The crisis has spurred the Yurok Tribe to issue an emergency declaration and brought increased urgency to efforts to build California's first database of such cases and regain sovereignty over key services.  Professor Blythe George, a Yurok tribal member, consults on a project...

Graduate Student Faculty Appointments

January 20, 2022
Congratulations to three of our Sociology graduate students on their faculty appointments!  Please join us in wishing Yajaira Ceciliano-Navarro, Veronica Lerma-Gonzalez, and Maria Escobar the very best in the next step of their journey.   Dr. Yajaira Ceciliano-Navarro has...

UC President Michael V. Drake Releases Statement on January 6 Attack on the Capitol

January 7, 2022
A message from UC President Michael V. Drake on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol Thursday, January 6, 2022 University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., released the following statement today (Jan. 6) regarding the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol...

Daisy Reyes Awarded Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Grant

January 5, 2022
Associate Professor Daisy Reyes was awarded an impressive Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Grant for her project titled “How College-Graduate Latinx Millennials Are Faring After the COVID-19 Pandemic." Reyes will conduct a third wave of interviews with 61 Latinx college graduates...

Paper Published in Socius, "Coming Out (or not) on College Applications"

January 5, 2022
Nella Van Dyke, Natasha Hagaman, Irenee Beattie, and Hala Alnagar just published a paper in Socius, titled "Coming Out (or not) on College Applications: Institutional and Interpersonal Dimensions of Disclosing LGBQ+ Identities." The paper finds that while many students were comfortable...

Survey: Fresno Voters Concerned with Pandemic, Spending Priorities, Basic Needs

December 15, 2021
A representative sample survey of Fresno voters, now in its second year, is giving area policymakers insight into the opinions and concerns of the people they represent. The UC Merced Community and Labor Center partnered with the Fresno County Civic Engagement Table to conduct the Fresno Speaks...

The Failure of Financialized Higher Ed

December 7, 2021
Professor Charles Eaton and colleagues are referenced in an article about "financialization of higher education, where external financial interests have more influence and say on universities than staff or faculty. Higher education values monetary profit over its students and faculty....

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