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