Women @ UCM

As a way to celebrate the contributions of women faculty, students and staff at UC Merced, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women is
proud to share the following features on some of the projects being led by women at UC Merced.

April 23, 2012
UC Merced was awarded the Allied Professional Award from the Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus this month at the group's annual ceremony in
Washington, D.C.



April 13, 2012
As the new director of UC Merced’s Yosemite Field Station, Becca Fenwick will combine her love of the outdoors and of the educational opportunities
such settings can offer.
April 6, 2012

Graduate student Andrea Rodarte describes some of the tools she uses in her physics research. When Andrea Rodarte began studying physics, she
first wanted to look to the stars for answers.
April 4, 2012

Fulbright's Franco-American Commission will fund UC Merced Professor Monica Medina’s research in France on the codependency of marine algae and
tropical coral reefs.
February 28, 2012

Professor Lara Kueppers is studying how trees in the mountains of Colorado will adapt to climate change.
February 24, 2012

Doctoral candidate Kandice Soraya Grote is researching the cognitive benefits of bilingualism in children
February 7, 2012

Professor Ashlie MartiniProfessor Ashlie Martini was looking for the chance to make a difference when she took a post at UC Merced.
January 10, 2012

Professor Jessica L. Trounstine said there will be two political science subfields for graduate students to study at UC Merced.
January 3, 2012

Professor Dunya Ramicova designed costumes for four projects last year, including the Metropolitan Opera production of 'Nixon in China.'
December 9, 2011

History Professor Ruth Mostern has published a book with Harvard University Press that chronicles the changes made by the Song Dynasty in
medieval China.
December 5, 2011

At the Dec. 7 teach-in, sociology Professor Nella Van Dyke will discuss the factors that make social movements successful and how they
relate to the Occupy movement.