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Campus Names New Police Chief, Assistant Vice Chancellor

July 7, 2015
The University of California, Merced, announced today (July 7) the appointment of Albert Vasquez to the dual role of police chief and assistant vice chancellor for campus and public safety, effective Aug. 17. As assistant vice chancellor, Vasquez will oversee UC Merced’s growing safety programs,...

Climate Scientist Aims to Change National Dialogue, One Story at a Time

July 1, 2015
Climate scientist Emmanuel Vincent noticed climate change discussions in Europe had become somewhat politically polarized before he left France a few years ago, and found the same situation on a larger scale when he came to America. Vincent, now a project scientist with UC Merced’s Center for...

Researcher to Study Nuances of Neurons in the Brain

June 29, 2015
Neurobiologists have identified different types of neurons in the brain, but have struggled to put that knowledge into a useful context because they don't yet fully understand what makes one neuron behave differently from another. A new research project from UC Merced Professor Mike Cleary has the...

Scientists Decipher the Tick-Tock of Biological Clocks

June 25, 2015
Researchers at the University of California, Merced, have taken another step toward unlocking the mysteries of the biological clock. In a study published online today (June 25) in Science Express — and soon to appear in print in the prestigious journal Science — a team led by UC Merced Professor...

openDemocracy | Racism, citizenship and deportation in the United States

June 25, 2015
Professor Tanya Golash-Boza writes that immigration reform in the U.S. must include an overhaul of deportation practices, as well.

Researchers Align Atomic Friction Experiments

June 22, 2015
Working together to study friction on the atomic scale, researchers at UC Merced and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the first atomic-scale experiments and simulations of friction at overlapping speeds. In “Dynamics of Atomic Stick-Slip Friction Examined with Atomic Force Microscopy...

Campus Wins National Career Services Award

June 19, 2015
UC Merced’s Center for Career and Professional Advancement has long been a source of campus pride for the quality services it provides to students, and now it can add national recognition to its list of accomplishments. The center recently won the Career Services Excellence: Large College award...

Study: In Any Language, Learning to Walk and Talk Are Linked

June 17, 2015
UC Merced developmental psychologist Eric Walle recently discovered a link between walking and talking in infants. This development, however, brought up additional questions. Was the link specific to culture? Age? Native language? Walle, a professor in the Psychological Sciences graduate group,...

New NASA-Affiliated Center Opening at UC Merced

June 15, 2015
MERCED, Calif. — NASA has awarded a group of researchers at the University of California, Merced, $5 million to establish the campus’s largest extramurally funded research and education center to date, designed to benefit current and future students and contribute to NASA’s missions. School of...

TakePart | Replanting America: 90 Percent of What We Eat Could Come From Local Farms

June 11, 2015
Professor Elliott Campbell discusses a study that shows nearly all Americans could survive on food from sources within 100 miles of their location.

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