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Graduate Student Finds Her Calling in Medical Research

November 4, 2013
Graduate student Portia Mira has always liked helping people and learning ever since she found refuge in school from her dysfunctional home life. She focuses on taking care of others, including her younger, disabled sister, and her work here at UC Merced is no different. By researching...

UC Merced, UCSF Fresno and Fresno State Join Forces to Address Valley Fever

November 4, 2013
Seeking to combat a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease commonly found in the San Joaquin Valley, three regional institutions are uniting to improve the area's health. The University of California, Merced, Health Sciences Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco...

Grant to Prepare Undergraduates for Research Careers

October 31, 2013
A dozen UC Merced undergraduates will gain an edge in their journey toward a career in biomedical and behavioral research, courtesy of five years' funding from the National Institutes of Health. The campus recently received a Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) grant from the National...

Researchers Win Prestigious Grant to Study Similarities in Language, Molecules

October 25, 2013
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has begun an ambitious quest to discover common principles that guide evolution of structures at the linguistic and molecular levels. Professors Rick Dale in cognitive science, David Ardell in evolutionary biology...

Fogel First Woman to Receive Prestigious Science Award

September 30, 2013
Marilyn Fogel, a geobiologist in the School of Natural Sciences has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Alfred Treibs Award. Fogel was nominated for her numerous contributions to the fields of organic geochemistry, biogeochemistry, ecological processes, meteoritics and the...

UC Merced Professor’s Research Helping People Get Well

September 23, 2013
Chances are, sometime in your life, you’ll need an antibiotic.   But did you know that bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance so quickly – and pharmaceutical companies are not inventing new antibiotics – that soon, there will not be any that are effective?   It...

Professor's Article Published in Journal Science

August 1, 2013
Climate change alters the way in which species interact with one another- and not just today or in the future, but also in the past, according to a review article by UC Merced Professor Jessica Blois and colleagues coming out tomorrow in the journal Science.   “We found that, at all...

Professor Continues to Focus on Efficient Solvent Usage

July 15, 2013
In a move that will save the campus money, improve campus safety and help save the environment, Professor Jason Hein set up a new solvent purification system.   This project is similar to his previous efforts to reduce hazardous waste generated by his lab by capturing and recycling...

Professor’s Fellowship Takes Her Into the Halls of Power

July 1, 2013
Like many faculty members, Professor Katrina Hoyer is busy running a lab, teaching and researching. This year, she adds another item to her to-do list – learning how public policy is implemented and how she can advocate for policy that affects her research.   Hoyer has been...

Sunshine State: The University of California's Solar Breakthroughs

June 21, 2013
By Karl Hodge, Slate. www.slate.com Full story As nature calls time on fossil fuels, researchers at the University of California are finding credible alternatives to oil and coal. It's solar power's time to shine. We’re running out of fossil fuels and the search is...

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