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Brenda Ortiz

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Senior Public Information Representitive

Office: (209) 228-4203

Mobile: (209) 628-8263

bortiz@ucmerced.edu

ºÚÁϰٿÆâ€™s Graduate Programs Rank Among Best in the Nation

ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ continues to be recognized nationally, with some programs leaping forward, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 edition of Best Graduate Schools released on April 25.

Campus Visit Broadens Mexican Research Collaborations

When three buses rolled onto campus on one chilly winter morning, ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ gave the occupants a warm Bobcat welcome.

More than 100 undergraduate students and faculty members from Universidad Autónoma Chapingo — an agricultural institution in Texcoco, Mexico — visited the ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ campus on March 1 to learn about research programs and .

Female Researchers Receive Awards for Their Exemplary Research, Achievements

During Women’s History Month, we celebrate and reflect upon the achievements of women at ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ and beyond.

2023 is already shaping up to be a stellar year for female faculty members on campus. In just the first couple of months, Public Relations has learned about seven female faculty members who have received major awards.

CIS Ph.D. Student Gains Confidence at NIH Internship

(CIS) Ph.D. student Ben Nguyen spent last summer working as a data analyst at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Alumna Credits ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ for Inspiring Her Interest in Cancer Research

After transferring from a Sacramento community college to ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ in 2007, Maxine Umeh-Garcia was unsure of her future career. She admits she hadn’t looked at the majors the newest UC offered before applying and imagined she’d teach high school math.

She met with her academic advisor and learned the campus offered an applied mathematics major, not pure mathematics. They discussed other options and came to a stalemate.

Wilson Selected as a 2023 American Astronomical Society Fellow

Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development has been named a 2023 — the preeminent organization of professional astronomers in North America.

Matlock Receives International Cognitive Science Prize

Teenie Matlock, Cognitive and Information Sciences professor and the McClatchy Chair in Communications, has been awarded the fourth — one of the highest honors in the Cognitive Science Society.

For Matlock, it’s a true honor to be selected for this prestigious international award.

Zatz Named 2022 AAAS Fellow

Special Assistant to the Chancellor and sociology Professor Marjorie Zatz has been elected to the 2022 class of the (AAAS), adding to the list of previous ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ recipients.

She is the first social scientist from ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ to be elected an AAAS fellow.

Graduate Summer Bridge Program Recognized as a ‘Program to Watch’

Graduate Division’s program for incoming Ph.D. students was identified as a by Excelencia in Education, a national effort to identify evidence-based programs that improve Latino student success in higher education.

Nobile Named Pew Innovation Fund Investigator

ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ Professor Clarissa J. Nobile has been named a 2022 Innovation Fund investigator by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Nobile and University of Missouri Professor David G. Mendoza-Cózatl have formed one of six interdisciplinary teams chosen for the prestigious award.

The duo is combining expertise from Nobile’s research in microbial communities and Mendoza-Cózatl’s work in plant biology to study how plants and microbes interact in the context of iron uptake and utilization.