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Bioengineers Work on New Technology to Look Deep Inside Living Tissue and Tumors

May 31, 2022
Bioengineering Professor Changqing Li is building a high-resolution CT imaging scanner that will allow scientists to study and understand how oxygen plays a role in cancer therapy and stem cells growing in deep tissue such as bone marrow, and possibly develop new advances to culture stem cells...

Baby Formula Shortages and COVID-19 Led to Risky Feeding Practices, Study Suggests

May 23, 2022
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the majority of parents struggling to find baby formula have resorted to dangerous feeding practices for their infants, which could negatively impact the health of their young children, according to a new study conducted by the UC Merced Lactation Attachment...

Lab Aims to Understand Transporter Protein that Protects Cells from Damage

May 19, 2022
Professor Maria-Elena Zoghbi and her lab are taking a closer look at a human transporter protein that acts as a cellular protector by relocating a molecule that has important antioxidant properties in the cells, preventing oxidative damage in several tissues, including the heart. The National...

Bioengineer Invited to Join NIH Review Board

May 19, 2022
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have invited bioengineering Professor Eva De Alba Bastarrechea to serve as a member of the Macromolecular Structure and Function C Study Section within the Macromolecular Biophysics and Biological Chemistry Review Branch. The four-year appointment...

Our very own Dr. Sidra Goldman-Mellor is the recipient of the Spring 2022 Faculty/Staff Mental Well-being Award!

May 9, 2022
Undergraduate students were invited to nominate faculty and staff who: • Create a healthy learning environment • Support student well-being both inside and outside of school • Are sensitive to students' lives outside of academics • Check-on students and follow-up...

Spring 2022 Outstanding Graduating Student Award!

May 6, 2022
Sandy Rubio is the recipient of the Spring 2022 Outstanding Graduating Student Award. Sandy is graduating with a BA in Public Health and is planning to pursue a PhD in Public Health with a focus on population genetics and its intersection with the environment.  In addition to excellent...

Systemwide Climate Justice Course Debuts This Fall

May 5, 2022
Undergraduates will have a new, one-of-a-kind class they can sign up for this fall — Climate Justice — a hybrid course that features lectures by faculty from all 10 UC campuses. According to the UC Center for Climate Justice’s website, “climate justice recognizes the disproportionate impacts of...

Postdoctoral Fellow Mi Zhou will Begin a Tenure Track.

May 4, 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow Mi Zhou will begin a tenure track assistant professor position in the Department of Food Science, Nutrition, and Packing at San Jose State University in Fall 2022.

To find out where the COVID pandemic is headed, look here: The sewer

April 15, 2022
School of Engineering Professor Colleen Naughton's wastewater-tracking dashboard is helping the U.S. and many other countires follow the clues found in the sewers that indicate where COVID is going to surge.

Study on Cigarette Packs' Native American Imagery Raises Questions About Safety, Cultural Misappropriation

April 11, 2022
Most people are familiar with the adage "a picture is worth a thousand words." However, the message conveyed by an image may not always be factual. Authors of a study recently published in the BMJ journal Tobacco Control said that was the case with Natural American Spirit (NAS) brand cigarettes....

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