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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...

Researcher Takes First Step Toward Improved Diagnosis for Valley Fever

November 28, 2018
Clinicians searching for a new way to identify Valley fever patients who will develop the disease’s worst symptoms will find hope in a new paper by UC Merced Professor Katrina Hoyer . A research project led by Hoyer and former UC Merced researcher Dan Davini, in collaboration with Madera’s Valley...

UC Merced students present research and receive awards at APHA

November 16, 2018
UC Merced had a strong showing at APHA in San Diego this month! Two of our graduate students gave oral presentations (Zahra Goliaei and Jazmine Kenny), and Andrea Lopez, Adriana Nunez, Ravi Singh, Jazmine Kenny, Tashelle Wright, Chia Thao, and Mechelle Perea-Ryan presented posters on topics ranging...

Health Communication Researcher Working to Improve Internet-based Medical Information

October 17, 2018
If you’re an American with Internet access, you’ve probably done it. You get a headache, a sniffle or a mystery bruise, and instead of seeing your doctor, you consult “Dr. Google.” According to some studies, more than 80 percent of Americans have used the Internet to “self-diagnose” health issues....

Congratulations to Tashelle Wright & Jazmine Kenny, on being the Honorable Mention for the 2018 Aging and Rural/Environmental Health Award!

October 4, 2018
Congratulations to Tashelle Wright & Jazmine Kenny, on being the Honorable Mention for the 2018 Aging and Rural/Environmental Health Award!   On behalf of the APHA Aging & Public Health Section and the Section Award Committee, Tashelle & Jazmine's manuscript has been...

UC Merced Professors Honored for Work with First-Generation Students

September 24, 2018
UC Merced psychology Professor Anna Song and biology Professor Jennifer Manilay had a special dinner with UC President Janet Napolitano at her Oakland home recently to honor the faculty members for their work on first-generation student initiatives. All faculty in attendance, including Song and...

Campus Awards Chancellor’s Postdoc Fellowships

September 19, 2018
Two of UC Merced’s newest postdoctoral researchers, Colleen Cheverko and Maria-Elena Young, received the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (CPFP) for 2018-2019. The fellowships, which are for one year with a potential one-year renewal, provide professional development and faculty mentoring to...

Postdoc Earns Prestigious NIH Award to Study Health Disparities

September 17, 2018
Jaapna Dhillon had no idea that studying how almonds affect health would win her a huge advantage in securing a tenure-track position. But Dhillon just became UC Merced’s first postdoctoral researcher to receive a Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “The K99/...

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