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UC Merced faculty sign open letter asking Trump to uphold Paris Climate Agreement

February 14, 2017
Nearly 100 UC Merced faculty, along with others from California universities, have signed an open letter calling on President Donald Trump and his administration to stay committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and upholding the Paris Climate Agreement. The letter says there is consensus...

Cancer Patients’ Care Requires More Than Written Instructions

February 13, 2017
The depth and breadth of post-diagnosis care for cancer patients often depends on the resources available to them. But a new paper in the journal PLoS One by UC Merced Professor Nancy Burke shows that care — and how effective it is — also depends on understanding and addressing cultural differences...

Study: Infants Recognize Surprise in Others Before Age 2

February 8, 2017
Infants as young as 20 months of age expect adults to display surprise when discovering a false belief, according to a new study from UC Merced Professor Rose Scott. Previous research suggested that children younger than 4 years old could not recognize when people held beliefs different from their...

New UC Grant Enables Deeper, Broader Valley Fever Research

February 1, 2017
Researchers at UC Merced are playing key roles in the new UC Valley Fever Research Initiative, studying how the Valley fever fungus, Coccidioides immitis, causes disease in its mammalian hosts, and identifying the genes involved in this process. School of Natural Sciences professors Clarissa Nobile...

Blum Center Relaunching With Focus on Food

January 30, 2017
UC Merced is relaunching its branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies with a focus on food security for the first two years of the faculty-led effort. Economics Professor Kurt Schnier, with the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and Karina Diaz Rios, a nutrition specialist in...

Genetic Changes Made Native Americans Susceptible to Smallpox, Study Shows

January 18, 2017
A new study identifies genetic changes in Native Americans that came about when Europeans settled in the Pacific Northwest and might have played a major role in why so many natives died of infectious disease. In a new paper in Nature Communications, “A Time Transect of Exomes from a Native American...

Researchers Enlist Hospital in Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

December 9, 2016
There are 1.7 million multidrug-resistant, hospital-acquired infections that extend hospital stays, increase medical expenses and decrease quality of life. The United States alone reports at least 120,000 deaths annually from resistant infections that are improperly treated because of a scarcity of...

Some people drive distracted despite knowing the danger, UC Merced survey says

December 1, 2016
People know using their cellphone while driving is dangerous, but they do it anyway, according to a recent survey of UC Merced students.                       An assistant public health professor at UC Merced, Stephen Wooding,...

People in Eurasia are Genetic Hybrids with Evolutionary Advantages, Study Shows

November 16, 2016
It’s not just luck or practice that gets Sherpa mountaineers up the slopes of Mt. Everest each year. Functioning so well at extreme elevations is in the Sherpa and Tibetan DNA — literally. A new study by UC Merced Professor Emilia Huerta-Sánchez — published recently in the journal Molecular Biology...

UC Merced Public Health Represented at the International Entomology Conference

November 2, 2016
UC Merced had a strong showing at this year's International Entomology Conference in Orlando, Florida. Public Health graduate student Eunis Hernandez presented a research poster titled 'Environmental and Socioeconomic factors associated with West Nile virus cases.' She was accompanied...

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