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Professor Studies Flatworms for Ways to Fight Cancer

January 8, 2010
Planaria are curious creatures. The tiny flatworms will grow a new head if it’s cut off. They’ll produce a new body if they’re sliced in half. Manipulate their genes, and they’ll develop multiple heads. UC Merced’sSchool of Natural SciencesProfessorNéstor J. Oviedowants to know why. Long relegated...

Bioengineering Trio's Research is All Heart

January 8, 2010
Anley “T” Tefera, Bernardo Zepeda and Heather Orrell are three aspiring bioengineers who have decided to pursue advanced studies at UC Merced after graduating from here in May. It seems they each know a good thing when they see it, and integrating their research in professor Ariel Escobar’s lab is...

David Hosley Named Interim Vice Chancellorfor for University Relations At UC Merced

January 7, 2010
David Hosley has been appointed interim vice chancellor for University Relations to oversee fundraising, trustee relations, government relations and communications. He will also continue to serve as president of UC Merced’s Modesto-based Great Valley Center. MERCED, CA— The University of...

Bright Ideas Shine in EPICS Program

December 17, 2009
There’s nothing like a little friendly competition to help students get their creative juices flowing.Each semester, students in the Foster Family Center for Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program at UC Merced work on projects for local non-profit organizations. In doing so, they...

Bright Ideas Shine in EPICS Program

December 17, 2009
There’s nothing like a little friendly competition to help students get their creative juices flowing.Each semester, students in theFoster Family Center for Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)program at UC Merced work on projects for local non-profit organizations. In doing so, they...

Engineer Brings Expertise in Heat Transfer

December 17, 2009
ProfessorMichael Modestuses a simple analogy when explaining the concept of radiative heat transfer, his primaryresearchinterest. “When you’re sitting in front of a fireplace and you feel the warmth of the fire, that is a form of radiative heat transfer,” he explained. “Heat can be transferred by...

Database Project Leads Stanford to Hire UC Merced Graduate Student

December 11, 2009
Two years of coding a computer database paid off for graduate student Elijah Meeks when the finished project landed him a job at Stanford University. Meeks paired his knowledge of history with a deep understanding of computer language to create ”The Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty,” a...

Center Funds Collaborative Research in Science, Math

December 11, 2009
UC Merced graduate student Jane HyoJin Lee is studying what happens to cells when they’re exposed to an electric field, part of an effort to create more treatments for diseases such as cancer. Her research, in conjunction with a graduate student and a professor at University of Southern California...

Center Funds Collaborative Research in Science, Math

December 11, 2009
UC Mercedgraduatestudent Jane HyoJin Lee is studying what happens to cells when they’re exposed to an electric field, part of an effort to create more treatments for diseases such as cancer. Her research, in conjunction with a graduate student and a professor at University of Southern California,...

UC Center to Assess Education Initiatives

December 8, 2009
UC Merced will be among the seven University of California campuses studying the effectiveness of national, state and UC education initiatives. “California often spends billions of dollars on educational programs with little or no mandate to evaluate the effects of that investment,” UC Merced...

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