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Mark Arax

Writer-in-Residence Mark Arax Chronicles California's Lifeblood: Water

September 18, 2025

UC Merced has debuted a writer-in-residence program with one of California’s premier chroniclers of its history, especially the titanic power plays for land and water that have shaped the state’s...

Where's My Coffee Cup? film subject

Film Documents the Struggle of Growing Old Behind Bars

April 14, 2025

A UC Merced professor entered the bleak world of a fading, 64-year-old man in a Virginia state prison to illustrate the challenges of being elderly and incarcerated. “Where’s My Coffee Cup?” is a...

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Todo Cambia Festival Takes New Artistic Directions

February 24, 2025
Todo Cambia, UC Merced’s annual Human Rights Film Festival, broadens its horizons this year. Events include a former Texas state poet laureate, an author and his book about housing discrimination,...