Health and Science
October 6, 2011
A group of students working with Professor Benoit Dayrat learned first-hand this summer about the field research opportunities available to...
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September 29, 2011
UC Merced research team demonstrates non-tracking solar concentrator technology that uses heat from the sun to power air conditioning unit. Using solar thermal energy to power an air conditioning unit can be...
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September 29, 2011
UC Merced’s Student Health Services offers students on-campus primary care services, health education and laboratory testing.College is an adjustment. Over the span of a summer, high school seniors go from living under...
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September 16, 2011
Professor Jason Hein is designing new catalysts, which will help make new pharmaceuticals and develop sustainable chemical manufacturing processes.Professor Jason Hein was lured to UC Merced because of the opportunity...
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September 9, 2011
Sarah Sanders was one of more than 30 undergraduate students who presented at the fifth annual Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium in August.As a child, Sarah Sanders was fascinated by how some of her bilingual...
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September 7, 2011
National Institutes of Health awards $2.6 million grant to researchers with UCSF and UC Merced to study tobacco programs at the state and local level. Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco,...
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August 30, 2011
UC Merced biochemistry professor finds how three proteins in one of the most basic forms of life — cyanobacteria — keep track of time. A discovery by a professor at the University of California, Merced, is...
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August 22, 2011
UC Merced's computer graphics lab, with body sensors, motion-capture cameras, and a giant movie screen is straight out of Hollywood. But instead...
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August 18, 2011
Innovative new design is modeled on nervous systems, creating computers that can learn through experience, find correlations, create hypotheses and remember outcomes. A team of researchers led by IBM, including a...
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August 15, 2011
Spencer Castro will coach UC Merced's cross country team while also working on interdisciplinary research.Spencer Castro is moving from one of the nation's most established research universities and most successful...
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August 9, 2011
UC Merced professor coauthors paper published in Nature Chemistry, offering insight into how naturally occurring RNA precursors may have formed on Earth billions of years ago. The natural enantiomer of the RNA...
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July 29, 2011
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July 22, 2011
Most of us know we should eat right and exercise, but few do. With busy job schedules, family demands and hectic social calendars, working out often seems impossible to work in. But finding time for fitness reaps...
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July 19, 2011
New program to address the pressing health concerns of the Valley. The University of California, Merced, and UC Davis School of Medicine announced today the first cohort of students who are expected to enroll this...
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June 27, 2011
Interdisciplinary economics study reveals major rail transit system in Taiwan reduced air pollution in a meaningful way when it began operating. The opening of a major urban rail system in Taiwan caused a...
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June 13, 2011
UC Merced professor coauthors a study in the American Journal of Public Health that highlights cessation challenges posed by social smokers compared to regular smokers. Self-identified social smokers are less...
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May 26, 2011
UC Merced may still be a young campus, but that doesn't prevent its students from striving for audacious goals. One enterprising group of students aspires to change the face of how diabetes is managed in the...
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April 15, 2011
Andrea Mercado has a knack for finding opportunity. She left her hometown of Lake Arrowhead in Southern California for college in Seattle, but a year later, her horizons opened up in a different direction.
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April 12, 2011
Sierra Nevada Research Institute symposium joins Student Research Poster Competition and Vital and Alice Pellissier Distinguished Speaker Series as highlight events. Research Week, the annual celebration of...
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March 25, 2011
UC Merced's physicsgroup is defying the odds.
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