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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,...
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...
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...
April 12, 2018
Distinguished Professor Jan Wallander heads to New Orleans today (April 12) to attend a conference and receive the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Pediatric Medicine and Behavioral Health from the Society of Behavioral Medicine Child and Family Health...
April 10, 2018
Article published by Ph.D. student Kim Arellano Carmona in the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing "Adding a Parent to the Brain Tumor Team: Evaluating a Peer Support Intervention for Parents of Children With Brain Tumors" http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KkMasVj8HtkHnTPU9sz2/...
April 4, 2018
Precision medicine offers hope after a life-changing cancer diagnosis. But some cancers that initially respond to targeted chemotherapy become treatment-resistant — and the tumor itself is the culprit. Now, new research from UC Merced and UC Irvine is helping explain how therapy-resistant cancers...
March 22, 2018
Latinos suffer from some of the highest obesity rates in the nation. Health officials have tried to intervene with messaging that encourages healthy eating and healthy behavior, but these campaigns have met with little success. Now a new study from UC Merced public health Professor Susana Ramirez...
March 14, 2018
    The Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) initiated the yearly SPLASH conference in 1957.  It is an academic outreach program that invites high school students to attend classes/workshops taught by undergraduates, graduates, alumni, staff/faculty, and local...
March 8, 2018
Morelia Marines and Kesia Garibay who are Public Health seniors (and mentored by Public Health professor Dr. Nancy Burke) were selected as winners for Research Week for their poster presentation. They both received high scores for their presentation at the Research Week Showcase and won as an...
March 5, 2018
Editor’s note: Every year UC Merced shines a spotlight on the cutting-edge research underway at the university. Research Week is an opportunity for the public to explore the groundbreaking work conducted by students and faculty. As part of Research Week, the Newsroom will highlight a few of these...

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