Research

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Growing Research Week Offers Events and Activities for All

The annual Research Week celebration of research kicks off Monday.The annual Research Week tabling event has more than doubled in size from last year, and that’s just one of the new and growing eve

Two Professors Named Campus’s First MacArthur Chairs

Two UC Merced faculty members with distinguished, international research careers recently became the campus’s first John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chairs.

Professor Mark Aldenderfer, who served as dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for more than five years, and new UC Merced Professor Arturo Arias have both been named MacArthur Chairs.

Campus Named to Carnegie List of Research Universities

The University of California, Merced, has been designated a “doctoral-granting university with higher research activity” — or R2, the second-highest classification for American research universities — in its first appearance on the highly cited Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

The R2 classification recognizes UC Merced as a selective institution that awards more than 20 doctoral degrees, primarily in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Biomedical Researcher Earns Respected Keck Award

Professor Victor MuñozProfessor Victor Muñoz’s novel approach to advancing biomedical research has earned him the campus’s first prestigious Keck Award, including $1 million over the next five years.

Biologist Earns Prestigious Guest Professorship in Germany

David ArdellComputational biologist David Ardell has been awarded the 2016 Julius Kuehn Professorship by the academic senate of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany.

Researcher’s Work Shows History Doesn’t Indicate the Future of Climate Change

Researcher Mohammad SafeeqShakespeare might have been right when he wrote “what’s past is prologue,” but not when it comes to modeling climate change.

Psychologist: Show Troubled Kids Peter Parker, Not Spider-Man

Chris FradkinBefore Spider-Man became Spider-Man, he was Peter Parker, an orphan living with relatives of modest means, and a bullying victim forced to cope with the murder of his uncle.

Humans Have Disrupted Ecosystems for 6,000 Years, Research Shows

The basic structure of Earth’s ecosystems lasted for 300 million years but changed about 6,000 years ago, and humans are the most likely reason.

A team of about 25 researchers from around the globe, including UC Merced Professor Jessica Blois, outline that discovery in a paper published today in the journal Nature.