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Blum Center Announces 2017 Seed Grant Recipients

June 7, 2017
UC Merced’s branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies rebooted this spring with a faculty-led effort to spend two years working on becoming the hub for all food-security-related research and outreach on and off campus. Part of that effort includes seed grants for UC Merced researchers. The...

UC Merced Library Chosen to Digitize AIDS Historical Archives

May 17, 2017
The UC Merced Library’s digital assets team is playing an important role in providing access to a swath of modern history that will contribute to research and society. The team has been asked to digitize about 127,000 pages from 49 archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic...

Public Health Art Poster Contest

April 25, 2017
The results of the Seeing Health Art Show are as follows:   First Place 1. Emily Saracay, esaracay@ucmerced.edu 2. Karina DeGuzman, kdeguzman4@ucmerced.edu    Second Place 1. Namita Vij, nvij@ucmerced.edu 2. Cordia Wong, cwong66@ucmerced.edu 3. Katrina...

Researcher Tracking Teens Who Attempted Suicide

April 3, 2017
More than 120,000 young people ages 10 to 18 attempt suicide each year, and about 4,500 of those attempts are fatal. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among children ages 10-14 and the second among people 15 to 34 years old. More people die from suicide each year than from breast cancer...

Ancient Biological Clockwork Revealed Using ‘Secret Sauce’

March 16, 2017
In finding a way to see assemblies of the proteins that direct cyanobacterial circadian rhythms, or biological clocks, UC Merced biochemistry Professor Andy LiWang and his colleagues have done what no one else has been able to, despite more than 15 years of trying. A new paper released in the...

Precision Targeting Provides New Insights Into Therapy-Resistant Cancers

March 1, 2017
The National Cancer Institute’s “cancer moonshot” tasks researchers with, among advancing other new biotechnologies, delving into immunotherapy and epigenomic analysis. UC Merced Professor Fabian V. Filipp is doing his part, further developing his work on precision targeting of cancers and...

Despite Farms, Some in Valley Struggle to Find Fresh Food

February 22, 2017
It might come as a surprise that, in a region where agriculture is so prevalent, many people in the San Joaquin Valley cannot afford fresh, quality produce or live too far from grocery stores, farmers markets and other sources. A recent study from UC Merced public health Professor Susana Ramirez...

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...

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