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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...

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. 

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