Health and Science
December 18, 2012
Campus shows healthy growth, a wide reach into the San Joaquin Valley through investment and increased college-going rates, and a global view toward problem-solving. MERCED, Calif. — Though UC Merced looked back...
|
December 10, 2012
Students work to install a remote camera in the Los Banos Wetlands for a service-learning client.Students with a variety of skills and perspectives make up a team that’s taking engineering principles into some...
|
December 5, 2012
Professor Christine IsbornProfessor Christine Isborn is doing quantum chemistry at the speed of graphics.
|
December 3, 2012
Professor Erik RollandThe tougher a problem, the more creative a solution it needs, from the increasing power in orbiting satellites and saving tigers to saving state parks and catching thieves.
And when a problem...
|
November 28, 2012
Students Michael Lane, front left, and Amanda Baijnauth, front right, write for softmatterworld.org with the help of Professor Linda Hirst, Merritt Writing Program Assistant Director Paul Gibbons and webmaster Adam...
|
November 27, 2012
Counting the number of species that live in the Earth’s oceans sounds as impossible as counting the grains of sand on a beach.
But a global collaboration involving a UC Merced researcher and a graduate student is doing...
|
November 7, 2012
Qianting Chen, a junior physics major, participated in the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS) summer program at UC Merced.More than two dozen UC Merced undergraduates spent the summer exploring a tiny...
|
November 5, 2012
Zhijiang "Justin" Ye wasn’t expecting to attend the newest campus in the UC system.
He just wanted to work with Professor Ashlie Martini.
When Ye, then a student at University of Minnesota, connected with Martini and...
|
November 5, 2012
When UC Merced first announced it would be sending students to the national political conventions through The Washington Center program, senior Chelsea Coe never expected she'd be one of the lucky two.
|
October 31, 2012
Used acetone goes into the machine to be cleaned for re-use.Chemistry Professor Jason Hein and his students make a lot of compounds in the lab.
They also make a lot of chemical waste.
But Hein found a way to clean up...
|
October 23, 2012
Cognitive science Professor Teenie MatlockIn an election year, as people are being machine-gunned with millions of dollars’ worth of political messages from all sorts of sources, it might be re-assuring (or distressing...
|
October 15, 2012
Professor Fabian Filipp is trying to put up roadblocks. But instead of stopping cars, he's trying to keep cancers from growing.Fabian Filipp
Filipp, a systems biology professor who started at UC Merced this fall,...
|
October 11, 2012
Monica MedinaProfessor Mónica Medina started out as the only marine biologist in a National Science Foundation workshop last year, but she ended up with a group of new partners and an opinion piece in the prestigious...
|
October 3, 2012
Sometimes, all you need is a little push, even if it comes from a mechanical arm.
That was the case with the UC Merced Robotics Society, which began in 2008 but languished after its founders graduated. This past year,...
|
October 1, 2012
Staph, e-coli, meningitis, MRSA and botulism are just a few of the thousands of bacterial infections that plague people all over the world.
For example, almost 23,300 people in the United States were sickened by food-...
|
September 26, 2012
Professor Anne S. WarlaumontFrom burps to babbling, cognitive science Professor Anne S. Warlaumont studies how children develop their ability to verbally communicate in the first year of their lives.
|
September 25, 2012
UC Merced professors will have $1.4 million over the next five years to examine and model how climate affects marine organisms and communities. MERCED, Calif. — A $1.9 million grant from the National Science...
|
September 24, 2012
UC Merced doctoral student Nate Bogie and Central State University student Thad Mccants work on one of two farm sites where they are researching why a certain shrub helps other crops thrive.Shrubs blooming in a...
|
August 27, 2012
UC Merced's Society of Automotive Engineers team members gain hands-on experience that will help them in their future careers and beyond.
|
August 6, 2012
Catalina Hernandez with her youngest child.Catalina Hernandez, UC Merced's first Human Rights Center fellow, is spending this summer exploring how women decide to seek help from a midwife for childbirth instead of an...
|
