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UC Merced Researcher, Graduate Student, Contribute to Inventory of All Marine Life

November 29, 2012
Counting the number of species that live in the Earth’s oceans sounds as impossible as counting the grains of sand on a beach. But a global collaboration involving a UC Merced researcher and a graduate student is doing just that, and found that about a third of all the oceans’...

Fluid Dynamics And Mathematics Used To Study Penguin Huddles

November 19, 2012
By Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online If you fell in love with the movie “March of the Penguins”, you are in good company. Francois Blanchette, a mathematician at the University of California – Merced (UCM) found inspiration in this masterful and...

Graduate Studies: A lifetime of discovery [VIDEO]

November 15, 2012
UC Merced is where you will take the next steps into your future, whether your interests lie in the sciences, engineering, social sciences or humanities.    

Inaugural Managers to Lead New Vernal Pool Reserve

November 8, 2012
Chris Swarth (pictured here), experienced reserve manager, and Steve Shackelton, former national parks leader, hired to shepherd acreage into a UC reserve, develop educational and research programs The effort to create a natural reserve out of nearly 6,000 acres adjacent to UC Merced has...

Chemistry Professor Making the Most of his Waste

November 1, 2012
Chemistry Professor Jason Hein and his students make a lot of compounds in the lab. They also make a lot of chemical waste. But Hein found a way to clean up the waste and reuse it, saving money and helping the environment at the same time. “I’m very excited about this project,...

Big Change a Chance for Big Opportunities for Grad Student

October 29, 2012
Chicagoan Chelsea Carey (pictured on the right) faced quite a change in choosing UC Merced for her natural sciences graduate studies. But she knew she wanted to work with Professor Stephen Hart for her environmental systems research. “I did a lot of searching (for a mentor) based on my...

UC Merced Students Win Research Awards at SACNAS

October 22, 2012
We are proud to announce that three UC Merced undergraduate students won research awards at the recent conference of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) in Seattle.   All three students are SNS majors and part of the UC LEADS program....

Impact: Understanding Addiction with Fruit Flies [VIDEO]

October 15, 2012
UC Merced Professor Fred Wolf uses fruit flies to better understand the neurological impacts of alcoholism.

Professor Working to Stop Melanoma in its Tracks

October 15, 2012
Professor Fabian Filipp is trying to put up roadblocks. But instead of stopping cars, he's trying to keep cancers from growing. Filipp, a systems biology professor who started at UC Merced this fall, studies the metabolic cycle of melanoma, which is the leading cause of death from skin cancers...

UC Merced Faculty Opinion in Journal Science

October 11, 2012
Professor Mónica Medina started out as the only marine biologist in a National Science Foundation workshop last year, but she ended up with a group of new partners and an opinion piece in the prestigious journal Science that’s being released today. Through discussions with colleagues from...

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