School of Natural Sciences Members: Chair – Jennifer Manilay - jmanilay@ucmerced.edu Vice Chair – Anne Kelley - amkelley@ucmerced.edu Interim Dean – Michael Findlater (ex-officio member) - michaelfindlater@ucmerced.edu Applied Math – Shilpa Khatri - skhatri3@ucmerced.edu Chemistry & Biochemistry – Anne Kelly - amkelley@ucmerced.edu Life & Environmental Sciences – Teamrat Ghezzehei - taghezzehei@ucmerced.edu Medical Education – Susan DeRiemer – sderiemer@ucmerced.edu Molecular and Cell Biology – Jennifer Manilay - jmanilay@ucmerced.edu Physics – Lin Tian - ltian@ucmerced.edu Department Chairs Molecular Cell Biology (MCB) – Kirk Jensen - kjensen5@ucmerced.edu Chemistry & Biochemistry – Christine Isborn - cisborn@ucmerced.edu Life & Environmental Sciences (LES) – Carolin Frank - cfrank3@ucmerced.edu Applied Math – Roummel Marcia - rmarcia@ucmerced.edu Physics – Jay Sharping - jsharping@ucmerced.edu Medical Education – Margo Vener - mvener@ucmerced.edu School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Members: Chair – Heather Bortfeld - hbortfeld@ucmerced.edu Vice Chair – Sidra Goldman-Mellor - sgoldman-mellor@ucmerced.edu Dean – Leonardo Arriola (ex-officio member) - leonardoarriola@ucmerced.edu Untenured Representative – TBD Cognitive and Information Sciences – Micheal Spivey - spivey@ucmerced.edu Languages, Literatures and Cultures – Cristian Ricci - cricci@ucmerced.edu Anthropology and Heritage Studies – Steve Wooding - swooding@ucmerced.edu Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies – Yehuda Sharim - ysharim@ucmerced.edu History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies – TBD Public Health - Sidra Goldman-Mellor - sgoldman-mellor@ucmerced.edu Psychological Sciences – Deborah Wiebe - dwiebe@ucmerced.edu Political Science – Anil Menon - armenon@ucmerced.edu Sociology - Edward Flores - eflores52@ucmerced.edu Economics and Business Management – Fanis Tsoulouhas - ftsoulouhas@ucmerced.edu; theofanis.tsoulouhas@gmail.com Philosophy – David Jennings - djennings3@ucmerced.edu Department Chairs Anthropology & Heritage Studies (AHS) – Daniel Thompson - dthompson29@ucmerced.edu Cognitive & Informational Sciences (CIS) – Chris Kello - ckello@ucmerced.edu Economics & Business Management (EBM) – Greg Wright - gwright4@ucmerced.edu Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies (GAMWS) – Ignacio Lopez-Calvo - ilopez-calvo@ucmerced.edu History & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies (HCRES) – David Rouff - david.rouff@ucmerced.edu Literatures, Languages & Cultures (LLC) – Humberto Garcia - hgarcia22@ucmerced.edu Philosophy (PHIL) – Dan Hicks - dhicks4@ucmerced.edu Political Science (POLI) – Courtenay Monroe - courtenaymonroe@ucmerced.edu Psychology (PSY) – Sarah Depaoli - sdepaoli@ucmerced.edu Public Health (PH) – Nancy Burke - nburke2@ucmerced.edu Sociology (SOC) – Kyle Dodson - kdodson2@ucmerced.edu Merritt Writing Program (MWP) – TBD School of Engineering Members: Chair – Abbas Ghassemi – aghassemi2@ucmerced.edu Vice Chair – Catherine Keske – ckeske@ucmerced.edu Dean (ex-officio member) – Rakesh Goel - rakesh.goel@ucmerced.edu Bioengineering (BIOE) – Joel Spencer - jspencer5@ucmerced.edu (Fall 2025) / Arvind Gopinath - agopinath@ucmerced.edu (Spring 2026) Chemical and Materials Engineering (CME) – Catherine Keske - ckeske@ucmerced.edu Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) – Abbas Ghassemi - aghassemi2@ucmerced.edu Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) – Dong Li - dli35@ucmerced.edu Electrical Engineering (EE) – Eric Cheng - ericcheng@ucmerced.edu Mechanical Engineering (ME) – Abel Chuang – achuang5@ucmerced.edu Management of Complex Systems (MCS) – LeRoy Westerling - awesterling@ucmerced.edu Department Chairs Bioengineering (BIOE) – Anand Subramaniam - asubramaniam@ucmerced.edu Chemical and Materials Engineering (CME) – Kara McCloskey - kmccloskey@ucmerced.edu Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) – Marc Beutel - mbeutel@ucmerced.edu Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) – Florin Rusu - frusu@ucmerced.edu Electrical Engineering (EE) – Sarah Kurtz - skurtz@ucmerced.edu Mechanical Engineering (ME) – Ashlie Martini - amartini@ucmerced.edu Mechanical Engineering (ME) Vice Chair – Abel Chuang - achuang5@ucmerced.edu Management of Complex Systems (MCS) – LeRoy Westerling - awesterling@ucmerced.edu Associate Deans Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs – Stefano Carpin - scarpin@ucmerced.edu Associate Dean for Student Success – Alejandro Gutiérrez - agutierrez78@ucmerced.edu
