SSHA Honors Outstanding Graduating Students
Thirteen graduating students were honored by UC Merced’s School of Social Science, Humanities and Arts for outstanding academic careers.
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Thirteen graduating students were honored by UC Merced’s School of Social Science, Humanities and Arts for outstanding academic careers.
Please use the radio button options below to rank the candidates for the position of HSRI interim director as your FIRST, SECOND and THIRD choice.
This vote is deliberately anonymous.
Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.
Please be sure to choose a different candidate in each position!
In the event of a tie between candidates receiving the most first place votes, I will weight positions 1-3 in order to break that tie. Should this method still result in a tie, I will organize a run-off vote.
In Professor Xuecai Ge ’s lab, where UC Merced researchers study how cells talk to each other to develop and differentiate, a recent surprise discovery is lending insight as to how erroneous cell signals lead to disease and birth defects.
Ge and her colleagues zeroed in on a slice of the communication system, the primary cilia, and found a protein called Numb, which they didn’t expect to be there.
Numb facilitates development of the spinal cord and cerebellum during embryonic neurodevelopment.
The National Science Foundation awarded a team, led by principal investigators Professor Ajay Gopinathan and Carrie Kouadio, funding to establish a summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at UC Merced.
This new program seeks to increase the diversity of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research community.
Please cast your vote YES or NO for the AFFILIATE membership applicants listed (in the lower half of this page). You may access the CV and statement of interest for each applicant here:
Eli Sachse
Norma Cardona
Who will UC Merced’s Grad Slam champion be?
Cheer on the finalists on April 8 and find out.
Graduate students from UC Merced’s three schools will take the stage to compete in the Graduate Division’s 10th Grad Slam finals.
Inflammation is the process by which the human immune system responds to injury and stimulates tissue repair and healing. But it can become a chronic condition, leading to health concerns such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and arthritis.
Professor Shahar Sukenik has been a faculty member for only 5 1/2 years, but he has already built an impressive resume, becoming a leader in his research field, an innovator and an exceptional communicator.
Those qualities helped him become UC Merced’s first recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Sloan Research Fellowship.
Department of Physics Professor Kinjal Dasbiswas has received a CAREER award for his work on the theory and modeling of shape-changing active solids.
He is the 38th researcher from UC Merced to earn this award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
