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New Project Aims to Advance Understanding of Immune Cells as they Develop

July 20, 2020
Maybe now more than ever, scientists need to understand the immune system. A new National Institutes of Health grant is funding a cross-disciplinary collaboration between bioengineering Professor Joel Spencer and immunology Professor Jennifer Manilay that will allow them to watch as immune-...

Study Reveals How Chemicals in Flame Retardants Interfere with Brain Development

June 15, 2020
Many of the items people use in their everyday lives, from baby clothes and Halloween costumes to furniture, are doused with chemical flame retardants designed to make the items safer. But a new study from Cellular and Molecular Biology Professor Ramendra Saha and his former Ph.D. student Robert...

Researcher Offers Guide to Coping with COVID-related Stress, Part II

June 10, 2020
Professor Matthew Zawadzki is with the Department of Psychological Sciences in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. His research examines social psychological processes as applied to health. This is the second of two parts. These are unusual times. In the midst of a pandemic that has...

Bacteria Use the Physics of Twist to Measure Their Own Size and Shape

June 9, 2020
Theoretical physics Professor Ajay Gopinathan has been working over the past decade to model a submicroscopic mystery. Now, he and a team of colleagues have verified an important piece of the puzzle of how tiny, intrinsically twisted protein filaments responsible for repairing and growing cells...

Researcher Provides Helpful Guide to Coping with Stressful Times, Part I

June 3, 2020
Professor Matthew Zawadzki is with the Department of Psychological Sciences in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. His research examines social psychological processes as applied to health. This is the first of a two-part discussion. These are unusual times. In the midst of a...

Human Waste Treatment Helps Solve Climate-Change Puzzle, New Study Shows

June 1, 2020
About 4.5 billion people around the globe do not have access to adequate sanitation, and what they do have — typically pit latrines and lagoons — are responsible for widespread illnesses and a portion of the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. UC Merced Professor Rebecca Ryals and a...

Several UC professors decry Merced County Sheriff’s opposition to state’s COVID-19 rules

May 21, 2020
Public Health faculty members at UC Merced write a collaborative response to the local sheriff’s statement that he would not be enforcing the state’s coronavirus restrictions and his criticism of the state’s COVID-19 policies. Link to article: https://...

UC PROFESSORS: Shelter In Place Orders Are Working

May 18, 2020
From the Merced County Times: The following OP/ED was written by a group of several UC professors in response to Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke’s recent letter to the State of California and statements that indicate he will not be taking any enforcement action in Merced County against...

Congratulations to Andrea Lopez

May 16, 2020
The Department of Public Health at UC Merced congratulates Andrea Lopez in the successful virtual defense of her dissertation entitled “Migración es una enfermedad: immigration policies, family separation, chronic fear, adversity.”

Assistant Professor of Public Health, Denise Payan, has been awarded a $50,000 CITRIS pilot grant with collaborators at UC Berkeley and UC Davis to study how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted telehealth adoption in safety net settings in California

May 16, 2020
A Multicampus Infrastructure to Advance Telehealth Implementation for Low-Income Californians in Response to COVID-19” Researcher/s: Hector Rodriguez, Denise Payan, Lorena Garcia | UC Berkeley, UC Merced, UC Davis On March 6, the President signed H.R. 6074, or the Coronavirus...

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