Our interdisciplinary program integrates methods and approaches from linguistics, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and computer science, to study thought and behavior. Our faculty have highly diverse research interests, and serve as graduate advisors, committee members, and collaborators.
Prospective or current students with questions about our undergraduate program are invited to contact us for more information: cis-cogs-chair@lists.ucmerced.edu.
The CIS program has multiple means of supporting graduate students. During each academic year, Ph.D. students are funded as either teaching assistants, research assistants, or through internal or external fellowships. All of these positions provide a full stipend and complete tuition waiver. Students almost always receive some form of summer stipend in order to support their research activities when classes are not in session.
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This year’s Cognitive Science for the Common Good event will be jointly organized with the CROSSTALK talk series and will take place on October 25th, 2023 at 3pm in Conference Center 110. Dr....
Starting this fall, the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences is offering an honors program for undergraduate students. Read more here.
In the early days of building UC Merced, founding faculty member Teenie Matlock took on lots of tasks that were well outside her job description. Over the years, she expanded her service to the...