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New UC Solar Project Produces Both Heat and Power

Professor Roland Winston (standing) and postdoctoral researcher Lun Jiang work on a solar collector system.One of California’s greatest energy challenges is finding innovative ways to lower natural gas consumption to help reduce gr

Annual Research Week Celebrates UC Merced’s Innovation and Advances

It’s time for the annual celebration of one of the main missions of UC Merced, along with education and public service — research.

From March 6-10, people on and off campus can get an up-close look at how UC Merced research fosters the development of students and faculty and extends growth from within the local neighborhood to the global academic community.

Precision Targeting Provides New Insights Into Therapy-Resistant Cancers

Professor Fabian FilippThe National Cancer Institute’s “cancer moonshot” tasks researchers with, among advancing other new biotechnologies, delving into immunotherapy and epigenomic analysis.

Researcher Illuminates the Olfactory Life of Crabs

If you want to know what the ocean really smells like, you’ll have to ask a crab.

Yes, crabs have a sense of smell.

New UC Grant Enables Deeper, Broader Valley Fever Research

Professors Hernday, Hoyer and Nobile (from left to right) play integral roles in a new Valley fever research project.Researchers at UC Merced are playing key roles in the new UC Valley Fever Research Initiative, studying ho

Genetic Changes Made Native Americans Susceptible to Smallpox, Study Shows

Professor Emilia Huerta-SanchezA new study identifies genetic changes in Native Americans that came about when Europeans settled in the Pacific Northwest and might have played a major role in why so many natives died of infectious disease.

Cognitive Scientist Earns Early Career Impact Award

Rick DaleUC Merced Professor Rick Dale is a recipient of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) Early Career Impact Award from the