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Congratulations to David Veloz

May 16, 2020
 The Department of Public Health at UC Merced congratulates David Veloz in the successful defense of his dissertation entitled "Perception of Air Quality in the San Joaquin Valley".

UC Merced Part of CITRIS’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants

May 14, 2020
UC Merced professors are leading or participating in four technology projects designed to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis. The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute awarded seed grants to 25 interdisciplinary, multi-campus teams to...

At the Intersection of Math and Biology, Sindi Lab Sees a Breakthrough in Prion Disease

May 4, 2020
A UC Merced researcher and her lab have unlocked one of the mysteries that could lead to treatments — or even cures — for prion diseases in mammals. Prion diseases are a family of rare, progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans — such as with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or fatal...

COVID-19 raises mental health concerns, resources available

April 17, 2020
Professor Goldman-Mellor cited in local news coverage of the mental health implications of the COVID-19 crisis. 

Merced County residents ask supervisors for ‘true’ eviction moratorium amid coronavirus

April 17, 2020
Professor Golash-Boza pens op-ed in regional newspaper arguing that rent relief funds from local governments could lift the burden off tenants at risk of becoming homeless due to fallout from the coronavirus.

COVID-19 reveals gaps in the Valley’s public health system, but improvement is possible

April 10, 2020
Links to the article: https://www.mercedsunstar.com/opinion/article241906106.html https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article241906106.html

COVID-19 More Likely to Impact Smokers and People Exposed to Secondhand Smoke, Report Finds

April 2, 2020
Smokers and former smokers are not only more susceptible to COVID-19, they are far more likely to see their conditions worsen over time and to require intensive respiratory assistance, according to a review released Thursday by the UC Merced Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center (NCPC). Furthermore...

Public Health Statement on COVID-19 Concerns

March 12, 2020
The University of California, Merced Department of Public Health prioritizes the health of our campus and community. Consistent with advice from national and state public health agencies, we have made the following policy changes, effective March 16, 2020 and in effect until further notice. 1...

Researchers Forge a New Weapon to Fight Parasites and Other Infections

February 27, 2020
Breakthrough collaborative science by an interdisciplinary team of researchers brought together by computational biology Professor David Ardell promises a new approach for treating all types of infections. Infections have become more dangerous in recent years because bacteria and parasites...

Researchers Discover Mechanism Proteins Use To Find And Control Genes

February 19, 2020
Bioengineering Professor Victor Muñoz has answered a long-standing genetic mystery, and his research suggests that someday, bioengineers could devise ways to control gene activity — manually switching off the genes that contribute to cancer, for instance. “If this mechanism turns out to be as...

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