Health Sciences Research Institute

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

A team of scientists led by UC Merced Professor Aaron D.

Professor Linda Hirst, with the School of Natural Sciences, has been elected to the executive council of GSOFT, the new Topical Group on Soft Ma

By Jeremy Olson for UC Merced Magazine

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the fall 2015 issue of UC Merced Magazine.

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

Banning smoking in the workplace and increasing taxes on cigarettes have discouraged teens and young adults from taking up smoking, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Merced. 

A new grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will create a pipeline to doctoral degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Merced, for underrepresented minority students from California State University, Fresno.  

Researchers at the University of California, Merced, have taken another step toward unlocking the mysteries of the biologic