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Blum Center Relaunching With Focus on Food
January 30, 2017
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UC Merced is relaunching its branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies with a focus on food security for the first two years of the faculty-led effort. Economics Professor Kurt Schnier, with the School of Social Sciences,... Read More
‘Diverse’ Magazine Names Groundbreaking Professor an Emerging Scholar
January 26, 2017
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The magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education has named UC Merced Professor Ala Qattawi an Emerging Scholar of the Year in its first issue of 2017. Qattawi, with the School of Engineering, is the first woman in the United States to... Read More
Genetic Changes Made Native Americans Susceptible to Smallpox, Study Shows
January 18, 2017
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A 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. In a new paper in Nature... Read More
Cognitive Scientist Earns Early Career Impact Award
January 13, 2017
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UC Merced Professor Rick Dale is a recipient of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) Early Career Impact Award from the Society for Computers in Psychology. Dale, a cognitive scientist in the... Read More
Students Building Living Machines Out of Engineered Tissues
January 11, 2017
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There are many labs at UC Merced where visitors can see students huddled over microscopes and petri dishes, using tweezers to extract and examine different items. But no one at UC Merced has ever seen the likes of what’s going on in... Read More
Scientists Build Synthetic Cell-Sized Membranes Out of Paper
January 4, 2017
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Scientists have been synthesizing lipid membranes from a variety of materials, making them as lifelike as possible to learn more about how cells work and how they can be manipulated. UC Merced Professor Anand Subramaniam and his students... Read More
Biologist Earns Prestigious Guest Professorship in Germany
January 27, 2016
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Computational biologist David Ardell has been awarded the 2016 Julius Kuehn Professorship by the academic senate of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Ardell, a professor in UC Merced’s School of Natural Sciences... Read More
Researchers Find Key to Harmful Pathogen’s Transformation
January 26, 2016
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A team of scientists led by UC Merced Professor Aaron D. Hernday has made a major advancement in understanding how the most common fungal pathogen in humans can alter its cellular phenotype and behavior. Although typically a benign... Read More
Student Engineering Team Rewarded in International Competition
January 20, 2016
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The federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recognized this year’s team of UC Merced engineering students for its design of a device that cools high-powered electronics aboard military aircraft. In the yearlong... Read More
Student Team Makes the Cut in Global ‘Hyperloop’ Competition
January 5, 2016
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A small team of undergraduate students from UC Merced is gaining major exposure in a global competition to design portions of what could be the next big innovation in transportation. Elon Musk, the billionaire inventor and co-founder of... Read More