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The Carter Joseph Abrescy and Larry Kranich Library Award for Student Research Excellence is Now Open for Undergraduate Applicants

December 3, 2020

The Carter Joseph Abrescy and Larry Kranich Library Award for Student Research Excellence is now accepting applications for undergraduate students through January 25, 2021.

Faculty Author Series: Dr. Sidra Goldman-Mellor

January 5, 2021

Join us for a faculty author talk with Dr. Sidra Goldman-Mellor on February 11, 2021 (this event is rescheduled from April 2020). Dr. Goldman-Mellor will discuss her research and recent article focused on the effects of emergency department presentation and suicide and mortality risk.

Call for Spring 2021 Library Instruction Requests

December 10, 2020

UC Merced librarians offer instruction sessions to support students in their completion of course assignments requiring library research skills. During this time of remote instruction, we are able to visit your Zoom sessions to offer instruction. Please submit any spring 2021 requests via our online instruction request form.

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Why be good? : a historical introduction to ethics

"Why Be Good is an introduction to ethics whose guiding theme is the question posed by Thasymachus in Plato's iRepublic. Historically organized, the text presents a series of responses to the...