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Alumnae Staff Members Honor Family With Endowed Scholarships

May 23, 2018
In creating scholarships to help future generations of Bobcats succeed, UC Merced staff members and alumnae Monique de Villa (’16) and Danielle Armedilla (’12) are cementing the legacy they are leaving for campus.   De Villa and Armedilla were honored for their generous contributions at last month’...

Public Health Commencement

May 12, 2018
      Public Health Commencement: Faculty gather to celebrate graduating students   Our growing Public Health Department gathered on May 11th to celebrate our many undergraduate and MSPH students. It was a beautiful day and a great opportunity for faculty to...

Global Oral Health Symposium, “Immigration: A social determinant of oral health?”

May 7, 2018
  On Monday, May 7, 2018 Professor Nancy Burke gave the keynote talk at the University of California, San Francisco Global Oral Health Symposium. Entitled “Immigration: A social determinant of oral health?”, Prof. Burke’s talk brought together recent public health...

Grad’s Ambition Continues to Motivate Her Success

May 4, 2018
The odds of Tomanik’e Banks graduating from college were slim — only slightly lower than the odds she’d go to college at all. But Banks had one thing going for her that many others don’t. Determination. When Banks crosses the commencement stage May 12, she’ll...

Article published by Dr. Irene Yen, "Gentrification and binge drinking in California neighborhoods: It matters how long you’ve lived there".

April 27, 2018
                      Professor Yen is senior author for a report which examined the association between gentrification during the period 2006-2015 and binge drinking in an analysis of the California Health...

Society for Applied Anthropology Conference in Philadephia

April 18, 2018
Public Health Grad Students Present Posters   Last week graduate students in Professor Burke’s Health Equity Research group spent four days in Philadelphia at the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings. Three second-year students presented their thesis papers during the...

Professor and students recognized for research excellence at health communication conference

April 16, 2018
Professor and students recognized for research excellence at health communication conference Professor Susana Ramirez and doctoral student Erendira Estrada were recently recognized at the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication. Their poster titled “Development of a local brand to...

Researchers Examine Barriers to Organ Donation and Possible Remedies

April 16, 2018
Every 10 minutes, someone is added to the national organ transplant waiting list, and about once every hour, someone on the list is removed — either because they died while waiting or grew too ill for surgery. The number of Americans on the waiting list totals more than 114,000 as of this writing,...

Public health doctoral student presents research at conference

April 16, 2018
Public health doctoral student presents research at conference   Kimberly Arellano Carmona, a first year doctoral student in public health, recently presented research at the Society for Behavioral Medicine. The study, “Beyond Fatalism: Nutrition information overload and sources of...

Health Psychology Professor Wins Prestigious Award

April 13, 2018
The Society of Pediatric Psychology has recognized Professor Deborah Wiebe for her body of research on the psychology of adolescent health. Wiebe, the head of UC Merced’s Health Psychology program within the Psychological Sciences graduate group, won the Dennis Drotar Distinguished Research...

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