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Grad Students Vie for Spot in UC Grad Slam Finals

April 16, 2019
UC Merced’s Graduate Division will host its Grad Slam competition on April 18 with graduate scholars presenting on topics ranging from Valley Fever immune response and antibiotic resistance to computer vision and mathematical methods for thermal collection. This year’s competition started in March...

Air Pollution Impacts Childhood Development, New Study Shows

April 9, 2019
Children who live near major roads are at higher risk for developmental delays because of traffic-related pollutants. That’s the major finding of a new study authored by UC Merced environmental epidemiology Professor Sandie Ha and colleagues. The study appears in the journal Environmental...

Public Health Professor Burke contributes to PBS documentary “The Providers”

April 1, 2019
"The Providers" will broadcast nationally on April 8th The PBS Premiere, it's...

UC Merced Public Health undergraduate won prestigious scholarship to conduct public health research overseas

March 20, 2019
Akhila Yechuri, a UC Merced Public Health alum who graduated in August 2018, recently won the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship to conduct public health research in Hyderabad, India.     Hyderabad is the fourth largest city in India and has the second largest...

March 19 - Ashley Sanders-Jackson, Michigan State University, 12-1:15pm, COB2 392 Policy relevant tobacco related research in a communication context

March 19, 2019
March 19 - Ashley Sanders-Jackson, Michigan State University, 12-1:15pm, COB2 392 Policy relevant tobacco related research in a communication context

New Project Aims to Predict People Likely to use Firearms in Suicides

March 11, 2019
The majority of people who die by suicide do so with firearms, and there were more firearm suicides in America in 2017 than there were homicides committed by any method. Combined. Those shocking numbers from the FBI and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention are the impetus for two UC Merced...

UC Merced Students Explore Peru By Volunteering as Translators

March 6, 2019
The explorer mentality, public health Professor Stephen Wooding said, is what sets the students of UC Merced apart from anywhere else. A willingness to try something new, to go somewhere they’d never thought possible, is a part of the Bobcat DNA. For three students, the time they spent traveling up...

Grant Enables Researcher to Focus on Valley Families and Children’s Development

March 5, 2019
Certain aspects of children's social cognition ripple throughout their lives, including whether small children can understand that other people’s minds are different than their own. That understanding plays a critical role in relationships, cooperation with other people and even in academic...

Grad Student Discovers, Patents Process to Create “Nanofoams” in Liquid Crystals

February 25, 2019
It sounds like an easy-to-follow recipe from the world of molecular gastronomy: Dissolve nanoparticles in liquid crystals and cool to form frothy nanofoams, tiny tubes and hollow microspheres. But what fifth-year doctoral student Sheida Riahinasab and physics Professor Linda Hirst actually...

APHA 2019: Abstract submission deadlines begin next week!

February 13, 2019
APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo Philadelphia PA | Nov. 02 — Nov. 06 The American Public Health Association is now accepting abstracts for APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo. The theme of the meeting is Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health...

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