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Relax: Benefits of Leisure Go Beyond the Moment

March 19, 2015
Doing the things you enjoy can be good for your health, according to a new study by Professor Matthew Zawadzki, a health psychologist with the University of California, Merced.    The study, published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, shows that leisure activity can provide immediate stress...

Community Garden Gets Facelift From Students

March 19, 2015
Warmer weather gave students the opportunity to spring to action to replant the community garden located next to Little Lake.  The “Plant-A-Day” event, held March 18, was a collaboration between Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) and the Yosemite Leadership Program (YLP). Both organizations...

Campus Outlines Innovative Plan to Double Physical Capacity

March 18, 2015
The University of California, Merced, today will outline for the UC Board of Regents a new development strategy that will more than double the physical capacity of campus facilities by 2020 in an effort to accommodate record numbers of student applicants, increase regional and statewide access to a...

Huffington Post | If You Thought Your Morals Were Unshakeable, This Study Proves Otherwise

March 17, 2015
Professor Michael Spivey shows that people's decisions on moral issues can be influenced by tracking their eye movements.

Mostern in D.C. to Advocate for Humanities Research

March 16, 2015
Professor Ruth Mostern, chair of the Interdisciplinary Humanities graduate group, is in Washington, D.C., today and tomorrow (March 16 to 17) to advocate for the humanities. Mostern is attending the annual meeting of the National Humanities Alliance today, and she will join several peers tomorrow...

Study: Moral Decisions Can Be Manipulated by Tracking Eye Gaze

March 16, 2015
Moral decisions can be influenced by tracking moment-to-moment movements of the eyes during deliberation, according to new research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.    The study, conducted by researchers from the University of California, Merced, Lund...

Literature Professor Releases Book on Acclaimed Chilean Author

March 13, 2015
Ignacio López-Calvo, professor of Latin American literature in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, has edited a book that was published by Palgrave MacMillan this month. “Roberto Bolaño, A Less Distant Star: Critical Essays,” is the first English-language volume of essays on the...

CNN | SAE: A textbook case of frats behaving badly?

March 13, 2015
Professor Nella Van Dyke says there is a correlation between the number of fraternities on a campus and the number of racist hate crimes reported.

Professor Contributes to Research on Oil Spills

March 11, 2015
Researching oceanic oil spills can be difficult when you work at a landlocked university like UC Merced. But thanks to a large consortium of researchers from around the country, that’s exactly what Professor Wei-Chun Chin is doing in the hopes of understanding the deeper, long-term effects of...

Self-Portraits Show Perception of Illness Remains Despite Cure

March 10, 2015
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Professor Jitske Tiemensma’s research speaks volumes. The UC Merced health psychologist uses self-portraits to assess how patients feel about their illnesses. In a study published recently in the European Journal of Endocrinology, Tiemensma found that people...

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