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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...

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Paul Aronstein PhD 2024 Environmental Systems Research • Copper speciation in airborne particles • Experimental wear and weathering of copper in braking systems and generation of respirable particles Danielle Jones PhD Candidate Environmental Systems Research • Mercury and nutrient biogeochemical...

Teaching

My teaching philosophy uses evidence-based pedagogy techniques to cultivate students’ sociological imagination. Evidence-based pedagogy techniques focus on creating an environment that optimizes students learning by providing routine and progressive build-up of knowledge. I use the following...

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Chrysoula Tsogka joined the department of Applied Mathematics at UC Merced in July 2019. Between 2007 and 2019 she was a faculty member of the Applied Mathematics Department at the University of Crete, Greece. Initially an Associate Professor (2006-2014) and then a Professor (2014-2019). Between...

Hello, I'm Dr. Irene Yen

I'm the Principal Investigator and Director of the Lab. I'm a social epidemiologist, a public health professor at the University of California Merced and a Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Research Leadership fellow. My research is currently centered on the question of how place influences...

Welcome to our research lab

We Investigate Social Factors Influencing Health and Well-Being The Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab is a research group at the University of California, Merced investigating key social factors affecting health and health inequities in California's Central Valley, the heart of California.