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Professor Helps Identify New Giant Galapagos Tortoise Species

Professor Danielle Edwards is part of a team of researchers that made a huge discovery recently about two groups of giant Galapagos tortoises — they are actually two different species.

The team’s paper, entitled “Description of a new Galapagos Giant Tortoise Species (Chelonoidis; Testudines: Testudinidae) from Cerro Fatal on Santa Cruz Island,” appears online today in the journal PlosOne.

UC Merced Water Research Earns Share of $50 Million Grant

The University of California, Merced, just became part of a massive, five-year, multi-million-dollar international research consortium that tackles water-related aspects of energy production and use.

Professor’s Invention Helps Scientists Win Nobel Prize

Professor Roland Winston's designs contributed to a Nobel Prize-winning experiment.Professor Roland Winston has been tracking the Sudbury Neutrino Experiment since it began in the 1980s, because he invented the light collectors the scientists built

UC Merced Celebrates Food Day

Food DayOn Food Day, Oct. 24, the nation will celebrate healthy, affordable and sustainably produced food.

UC Merced Manufacturing Startups at New Venture Lab

Venture Lab staff members are already working on projects with lab members, planning events and community partnerships and more.UC Merced’s latest foray into the community, the Venture Lab, officially o

Study: Skewed Academic Expectations Linked to Sexual Risk

Irenee BeattieScholars and educators alike believe raising expectations leads to higher achievement and self esteem among adolescents.

Project Aims to Fight Breast Cancer One Message at a Time

Susana RamirezResearch indicates that obesity can increase a woman’s risk of developing and dying from breast cancer.