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Lab Alumni

Former Graduate Students Erica Hanes earned her MA in Psychology from UC Merced in 2024. She received her BA in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State University. During her time at UCM, she researched aspects of culture and stress among Latino/a adolescents. Erica is excited to...

SRCD 2019

Graduate students Carmen Kho and Janice Disla presented their research at the biennial meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development conference in Baltimore, MD. Pictured above as part of the symposium: “Is it a Six or a Nine? Quantifying Parent-Adolescent Perspectives in Dynamic...

Vita

ZULEMA VALDEZ zvaldez@ucmerced.edu https://sites.ucmerced.edu/zulema-valdez EDUCATION University of California at Los Angeles 2002 PhD, Sociology 1996 MA Thesis, Sociology 1992 BA, Sociology ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE University of California, Merced 2023-25 Associate Vice Chancellor of Equity...

Maria Elena Zoghbi

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Member of the Molecular Cell Biology Department since 2016. I received my PhD in Physiology and Biophysics at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) in 2003. I did my PhD research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass) as a visiting graduate student, and stayed...

Academic Publications

November 2025 Joy-Writing Our Future: Centering Joy as Transformative Practice (with Eileen Camfield, Leslie Bayers, and Lott Hill), Interactive Session presentation at the 50th Annual Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) Network Conference, San Diego, CA...

Teaching

BIO 180 - Mathematical Modeling for Biology This course covers statistical modeling of complex data sets, mathematical modeling of population and epidemics, and extensive practice of "R" programing language. Semesters: SS2023, FS2023, SS2024, FS2024, SS2025, FS2025 BIO 182 - Bioinformatics This...