CIS Professor and Vice Provost for the Faculty Teenie Matlock was interviewed by USA Today regarding applications of her research to breast cancer treatment. Read the interview here.
Professor Carolyn Dicey Jennings is publishing a new textbook! Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience introduces cognitive science to a philosophical and interdisciplinary audience. Prof. Jennings co-edited the textbook with Benjamin D. Young, and it contains chapters from three other CIS faculty: Prof...
Profs. Colin Holbrook and Ramesh Balsubramaniam, in collaboration with recent CIS alum Dr. Chelsea Gordon, current CIS PhD student Shannon Proksch, recent CIS graduate Harmony Makhfi, and UCLA neuroscientist Prof. Marco Iacoboni, have published a paper in Social Neuroscience on their...
Prof. Dan Hicks' paper "Open Science, the Replication Crisis, and Environmental Public Health" has been published in the interdisciplinary journal Accountability in Research. The paper examines the relationship between open science practices and ongoing concerns about the...
Prof. Tyler Marghetis was interviewed on the Complexity Podcast, where he discussed his research on regimes and ruptures across timescales — from the frustration and creativity of mathematicians and musicians to the bursts of innovation that appear to punctuate civilization and the biosphere...
Ben Falandays, a Ph.D. student in Cognitive and Information Sciences, was awarded the Marr Prize Marr Prize for Best Student Paper at the Cognitive Science Society’s annual conference. Read more about Ben's award winning research here. His award-winning paper, co-authored with CIS Prof....
In Spring 2021, Cognitive & Information Sciences welcomed a new Professor: Dr. Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz. We asked Zenaida about her background, research and teaching interests, and why she’s excited about UC Merced. See her responses below.
What is your background?
I was born in...
Philosophy major Alisha Nesslage is going to have a busy summer. She’s been accepted to two selective summer programs for philosophers-in-training: the 2021 Colorado Summer Seminar in Philosophy (hosted by the University of Colorado, Boulder) and the Summer Program for Women in Philosophy (...
CIS Professor Teenie Matlock's recent research on countering climate change was featured in the Los Angeles Times. A preprint of the paper may be found here.
The CIS Department at UC Merced is proud to announce that Teenie Matlock, Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences and Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, has received the fifth annual Athena Award. The Athena award is part of the University of California’s Women in Tech Initiative,...
