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Social Justice After COVID Panel Series #2: Labor, Working Conditions, and COVID-19

May 20, 2020
Professor Tracey Osborne is hosting an online panel discussion on May 21, 2020 featuring international scholars Andrea Dehlendorf —  United for Respect/Making Change at Walmart Juan de Lara — University of Southern California Deena Ladd — Workers...

MIST faculty welcome Professor Tracey Osborne

January 21, 2020
We are delighted to announce the newest MIST faculty member! Dr. Tracey Osborne is Associate Professor and Endowed Presidential Chair in the Department of Management of Complex Systems at the University of California, Merced. Her research focuses on the social and political...

Professor Jenkins obtains grant from the National Park Service and Yosemite Conservancy

January 1, 2020
Professor Jeff Jenkins obtains multi-year funding from the National Park Service and Yosemite Conservancy to support a Yosemite Wilderness Character and Travel Pattern Study.

MIST Professor Yeo to speak at distinguished CITRIS Research Exchange

September 19, 2019
The public lecture — Cybersecurity & Product Innovation: How do data breaches impact product design choices? — will feature MIST Professor Lisa Yeo at the distinguished CITRIS Research Exchange, which delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and...

Professor Maglio named director of the Gallo School Planning Initiative

January 12, 2019
Professor and MCS department chair Paul Maglio is leading the way to join three existing departments - Cognitive & Information Sciences (SSHA), Economics & Business Management (SSHA) and Management of Complex Systems (ENG) - into a new fourth School at UC Merced. Read more from the...

Two multi-million dollar grants to support MIST faculty research

December 11, 2018
Professors Catherine Keske and Roger Bales involved in two multi-million dollar grants from the California Strategic Growth Council’s competitive Climate Change Research Program. Read more from the UCM Newsroom: New Project to Build Climate Resilience through Improved Land Management...

In the News: Professor Westerling on the complexity of climate change and fire management

August 16, 2018
MIST Professor LeRoy Westerling interviewed by various media sources on the complexity, climate change and management science problems underlying new regimes of fire activity in California and abroad: “We can no longer use the observed past as a guide. There’s no stable system that...

Professors Keske and Jenkins featured in YosemiteLand podcast

August 15, 2018
Professors Catherine Keske and Jeffrey Jenkins are featured in Episode 1 of "YosemiteLand", a new series produced by Capital Public Radio reporter Ezra Romero about Yosemite National Park. YosemiteLand website - learn how "how decisions made today in and around Yosemite...

TT Faculty opening - Assistant Professor in Management of Complex Systems

August 5, 2018
Seeking scholars who can contribute to the cross-functional research environment at UC Merced. We are particularly interested in individuals with interests and expertise in sustainability, natural resource management or lands management, and with applications for profit and non-profit enterprises...

Bringing back the National Parks Institute Executive Seminar

July 6, 2018
The National Parks Institute Executive Seminar is back!  This annual seminar ran for three years from 2010 through 2012.  The two-week course accepted park and protected area managers from around the world and focussed on executive leadership based on law, science and the development of...

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