Biological Sciences

A science literacy nonprofit created by UC Merced students is gaining an international foothold with planned expansion into classrooms in Ecuador.

One of the campus’s newest professors is teaching one of its newest classes on one of the world’s oldest subjects: dinosaurs.

But there’s much more to Professor Justin Yeakel’s Natural History of Dinosaurs class than just talking about T-rex and the velociraptors.

Imagine trying to reverse engineer a car when all you have is a finished product or a box full of parts — no instructions.

Everyone knows UC Merced is growing, but pretty soon, the campus will be growing lots of plant specimens for research, too.

Cancer cells divide with more frequency and are more resilient when they are closer to the brain, indicating a potential link between cell growth and the nervous system, according to new research from Professor

A proposal to conduct high-performance computing across science and engineering disciplines has won UC Merced and Professor Christine Isborn a research computing cluster that will be used for a variety of projects across campus.

A new study from UC Merced Professor Jennifer O.

Researchers at the University of California, Merced, won a $5 million gran

Last fall, the

Erik Olstad started down the path to becoming a veterinarian by accident.