Professor Ojeda was quoted in DAME Magazine recently!
Check out what he has to say about the toll politics is taking on the mental health Americans: https://www.damemagazine.com/2026/02/18/political-chaos-mental-health-polycrisis/
Black History Month often honors familiar names, leaders whose courage and determination changed the course of a nation. But many others have made groundbreaking contributions that exposed injustice, advanced civil rights, reshaped American culture and revolutionized technology. Their achievements...
Congrats to Political Science Professor Christopher Ojeda, who was featured in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law for his paper, "Mental Health in Times of Democratic Backsliding: Insights from Trump's Second Term."
The United States is currently experiencing...
Congrats to Political Science Professor Anil Menon and co- authors who were featured in JHPPL for their paper, ""Thoughts and Prayers": The (Non) Effect of Partisan Response to Mass Shootings on Public Opinion."
Experts consider gun violence a public health crisis in the...
Congrats to Political Science Professor Christopher Ojeda and co-author who were featured in the latest issue of Political Behavior for their article, "The Health-Representation Gap: We Don’t Know Much But What We Know Is Concerning."
There is now evidence that disparities...
Public health Ph.D. student Felix Agyemang Opoku has been awarded the UC Global Health Initiative Center for Planetary Health Water and Health Summer Research Fellowship.
The research fellowships are designed to provide students with funding to conduct research on water and health.
Opoku, who works...
Congrats to Political Science Professor Andrew Shaver and researchers who were featured in the latest issue of QJPS, "Civilian Harm, Wartime Informing, and Counterinsurgent Operations".
See the full X thread here!
As debates rage about artificial intelligence's impact on jobs, new research suggests that even warnings that AI could disrupt workers' employment soon do little to shake their confidence.
In a survey-based study, political scientists Anil Menon of UC Merced and Baobao Zhang of Syracuse University...
More than six in 10 UC Merced undergraduates are the first in their families to attend a university. The national average for four-year universities is about two in 10.
Opening doors to opportunity for first-generation students is infused into UC Merced’s DNA. Young people who had little to no...
Congratulations to UC Merced Political Science Assistant Professor Andrew Shaver and researchers at the Political Violence Lab on their new working paper "Anonymous Online Survey Detection (and Journalist Verification) of Political Violence, Social Unrest, and Human Rights...
