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Undergraduate Experience: Christopher Moreno

April 13, 2021
Name: Christopher Thomas Moreno Year: Fourth Year Major: Political Science Hometown: Bay Area (West – San Mateo; East – Union City) What are some memorable projects you have worked on during your time at UC Merced? I was originally enrolled in Fall of 2010. At that time Lamar Williams was our...

Professor Elaine Denny Co-Authors Piece on the Immigration Policy Debate

April 12, 2021
Professor Elaine Denny co-authors research that's recently come out from the Brookings Institution (non-partisan public policy think tank). The research focuses on the immigration policy debate, with insights from their team's (Elaine Denny, David Dow, Jose Ordoñez, Wayne...

U.S. News & World Report Rankings Showcase Growing Engineering Program, Debuts Interdisciplinary Humanities and Political Science

March 30, 2021
For the first time, UC Merced’s Political Science and Interdisciplinary Humanities (history discipline) graduate groups made national rankings. US News & World Report’s annual rankings, released today, also highlighted the campus’s growing School of Engineering, as most of its programs climbed...

UC Merced Political Science Graduate Program Ranked by U.S. News & World Report

March 30, 2021
Political science is a discipline that combines history, current events and analysis. Graduate students are often able to specialize in a certain area of politics. U.S. News & World Report ranked the 2021 Best Political Science Graduate Schools.  These are the best political science...

U.S. News & World Report Rankings Showcase Growing Engineering Program, Debuts History and Political Science

March 30, 2021
For the first time, UC Merced’s Political Science and History graduate groups made national rankings. US News & World Report’s annual rankings, released today, also highlighted the campus’s growing School of Engineering, as most of its programs climbed the charts. “UC Merced continues to...

University of Chicago Podcast Featuring Professor Jessica Trounstine

March 24, 2021
Professor Jessica Trounstine was recently a featured guest on the University of Chicago's Not Another Politics Podcast discussing the institutional racism of land-use regulation. University of Chicago's Senior Podcast Producer, Matt Hodapp wrote to tell us that every episode, the...

GROW Grants Nurture Vital Projects During Pandemic

February 24, 2021
Two faculty members and three graduate students who are working on food systems, food security and food sustainability research have received small grants through the UC Global Food Initiative (GFI) to bolster their projects. “COVID-19 has really dampened research, so we wanted to find ways to...

Professor Aditya Dasgupta: Tens of Thousands of Famers Protest Ag Laws in India

February 12, 2021
Professor Aditya Dasgupta, who specializes in the politics of India, spoke with Vox about the protests in India and the larger political statement and impact. Tens of thousands of farmers blockaded main roads across India on Saturday in a continuation of a months-long protest movement...

Professor Jessica Trounstine: What a Victorian Disease Detective Proved About Urban Health

January 8, 2021
More than 150 years ago, a renowned physician named John Snow walked the gritty streets of London’s working-class Golden Square neighborhood, not far from his office in the city’s Soho district, knocking on the doors of residents felled by the cholera epidemic. Why Soho was so hard-hit...

Professor Trounstine's Work to Inform Bay Area Policy

December 18, 2020
Political Science Professor Jessica Trounstine’s book, Segregation By Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities, is the basis for a new initiative by the Association of Bay Area Governments/Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Trounstine and her research team, that...

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