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...
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 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...
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!
On behalf of the APHA Aging & Public Health Section and the Section Award Committee, Tashelle & Jazmine's manuscript has been...
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...
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...
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/...
Even if some members of a goal-driven group don’t seem to work well with others — even if the whole group is extremely frustrated — the group can still compromise and find new ways to produce a successful outcome.
This sounds like a political allegory, but it’s actually a novel finding about...
