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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...

New Project to Build Climate Resilience through Improved Land Management

February 7, 2019
A $4.6 million grant to UCs Merced and Irvine will help researchers develop new tools and methods for better managing the state’s forests, shrub lands and grasslands. The Innovation Center for Advancing Ecosystem Climate Solutions, a three-year program co-led by UC Merced Professor Roger Bales...

The Del Jones Award - Tashelle Wright

January 25, 2019
Society Announces 2019 Del Jones Memorial Travel Awards                               The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the...

Professor’s Research Earns Prestigious Appointment to Help Guide Tobacco Policy

December 21, 2018
Professor Mariaelena Gonzalez has been appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee (TEROC). Gonzalez, with the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts and an affiliate of the Heath Sciences Research Institute, focuses on social...

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