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Affiliation: Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies – University of California Merced Bio: Nicola Lercari is an Associate Professor of Heritage Studies in the Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies at the University of California, Merced. He received his Ph.D. in History and Computing from the University of Bologna, Italy, and has participated in numerous digital humanities and digital archaeology research initiatives in Turkey, Italy, the United States, and Mexico. Dr. Lercari's scholarship exposes the fundamental role that digital and geospatial technologies play in the investigation and protection of sites of cultural significance, archaeological excavation/museum collections, data, and information that describe and document the cultural diversity of our planet.

Lercari’s Heritage Interpretation Visualization and Experience (HIVE) Lab was established in the summer 2016 at the University of California, Merced. The HIVE Lab is currently based on the University of California Merced campus in the Classroom and Office Building 2 (COB2 Room 344). The HIVE Lab is...

Cell fate decisions, and the subsequent maintenance of unique cellular identities, represent essential processes in the development of multicellular organisms. Similar cell fate decisions play critical roles in the adaptation of unicellular microbes to distinct environmental niches, including during...

Aaron D. Hernday Assistant Professor School of Natural Sciences University of California, Merced 5200 N Lake Rd. Science and Engineering Building 1, Room 314 Merced, CA 95343 Office Ph: (209) 228-2450 Email

England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 (Cambridge University Press, 2020) BUY ON AMAZON Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670-1840 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). BUY ON AMAZON

Chih-Wen Ni, Ph.D. Dr. Chih-Wen Ni is originally from Taiwan. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in the department of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 1998 and 2000, respectively. Since then, he joined the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at Academia Sinica...

LCAR from Erin Ray on Vimeo. Las Cuevas is an ancient Maya mid-sized site located in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve in western Belize that dates to the later part of the 9th century AD. On the surface it seems to be typical of many Late Classic Maya centers, but this site has something that others do...