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UC Merced Team Finds New Material, Novel Mechanism

October 20, 2013
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, created a material that shrinks when heated, a new way of enabling a material to move using light or low-energy heat, and also discovered why that happens – findings that are featured in a paper published on the...

UC Merced Students Excel at National Science Conference

October 18, 2013
Two University of California, Merced, students – Viridiana Murillo and Alexandro Perez-Tovar – won first prize in their divisions at the recent Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference in San Antonio, Texas. Nineteen UC Merced students...

Professor’s Research Shines a New Light on the Neurology of Dyslexia

October 16, 2013
Dyslexia is one of the oldest diagnosed learning disabilities – and one of the most widely researched. However, a UC Merced professor believes there is still more to learn and his recent research has shed new light on what many have considered to be a disease. UC Merced developmental psychologist...

Students Get Boost for Med School Plans

October 9, 2013
First, UC Merced senior Julio Flores wanted to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Then, neurobiology called his name. Now, after research experience in diabetes, he thinks that’s the field for him. In the end, it doesn’t matter. Flores just wants to help people. “If you don’t have your health, you don’t...

UC Merced's First Ph.D. Grad Now Leading the Class

October 7, 2013
UC Merced’s first Ph.D. graduate is back on campus. But this time, Ricardo Cisneros isn’t enrolled as a student; he’s a professor instead. Cisneros, who earned his doctorate in Environmental Systems from the School of Engineering in 2008, was the first environmental health professor hired in the...

UC President Tours UC Merced, First Campus Visit

October 4, 2013
University of California President Janet Napolitano toured UC Merced on Thursday, her first visit to a campus since being named the system’s leader. “I came here first because this campus is really important — not only for the UC system as whole but for the Valley and for the state,” Napolitano...

Record Spike in Applications Nets Enrollment Increase

October 1, 2013
A fall census shows enrollment at the University of California, Merced, has reached 6,195 students — a 7 percent increase over last year — as the campus continues to grow in both numbers and competitiveness. After evaluating a record application pool of more than 18,000, the university enrolled 1,...

New Blum Center at UC Merced to Focus on Valley Prosperity

September 30, 2013
UC Merced has a unique opportunity to help the San Joaquin Valley as the university forges the newest branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. The $400,000, two-year seed grant through the University of California allows the university to launch its center, themed “Global California: The...

Cognitive Scientist Shows How the Brain Can Assemble New Ideas from Old Parts

September 26, 2013
People routinely encounter familiar components from everyday life in new combinations, such as when a co-worker takes on a new role or a sentence uses a word in a new way. We typically excel at interpreting these new experiences, but researchers do not yet understand the neurological basis of this...

UC Merced Professor’s Research Helping People Get Well

September 23, 2013
Chances are, sometime in your life, you’ll need an antibiotic. But did you know that bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance so quickly – and pharmaceutical companies are not inventing new antibiotics – that soon, there will not be any that are effective? It’s a good thing UC Merced Professor...

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