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Postdoc Earns Prestigious NIH Fellowship to Expand Prion Disease Research

July 20, 2021
Postdoctoral Scholar Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn was awarded a $205,140 National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NIH-F32) to be distributed over three years. The purpose of the fellowship is to enhance the research training of postdoctoral...

How One Worker Protected Himself from COVID-19

July 19, 2021

UC System Admits Its Largest, Most Diverse Class

July 19, 2021

Professor’s Drive to Help the Community Gets Underway for 13th Year

July 15, 2021
Merced is a community with a lot of poverty, made worse with the Great Recession in 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic. To help people in need, Professor Patti LiWang has been leading a diaper and toilet paper drive for the past 12 years. “When we moved here, the recession hit. It was hard for us, a...

We're Creating the Conditions for a New Dust Bowl

July 15, 2021

Numbers Explain How and Why West Bakes, Burns and Dries Out

July 15, 2021

Those Not Vaccinated: No time or 'enormously selfish'?

July 14, 2021

Campus Wastewater Testing Offers COVID-19 Early Warning System, Establishes Protocols for the Future

July 8, 2021
COVID-19 upended life as we know it, especially among the science community. While some scientists rushed to develop a vaccine, others sought a better understanding of the virus, hoping to predict where the next outbreak might be in order to better contain it. At UC Merced, this included testing...

Opinion: Normal May Be a Long Way Off for Immunocompromised

July 6, 2021

All Coral Cells Grown in a Dish for the First Time

July 5, 2021

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