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Graduate Student Finds Her Calling in Medical Research

November 4, 2013
Graduate student Portia Mira has always liked helping people and learning ever since she found refuge in school from her dysfunctional home life. She focuses on taking care of others, including her younger, disabled sister, and her work here at UC Merced is no different. By researching antibiotics...

Grant to Prepare Undergraduates for Research Careers

October 31, 2013
A dozen UC Merced undergraduates will gain an edge in their journey toward a career in biomedical and behavioral research, courtesy of five years’ funding from the National Institutes of Health. The campus recently received a Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) grant from the National...

Campus's Economic Contribution to Region Approaches $1 Billion

October 29, 2013
The nearly $1 billion the University of California, Merced, has pumped into the region’s economy since operations began is significantly contributing to the San Joaquin Valley’s economic recovery, according to data released today by the university. The value of wages and benefits paid, construction...

Researchers Win Prestigious Grant to Study Similarities in Language, Molecules

October 25, 2013
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has begun an ambitious quest to discover common principles that guide evolution of structures at the linguistic and molecular levels. Professors Rick Dale in cognitive science, David Ardell in evolutionary biology and...

Research Investment Grows to Record $17.3 Million

October 22, 2013
Research expenditures at the University of California, Merced, increased by more than 9 percent in the 2012-13 fiscal year, to a record $17.3 million, according to data released today by the university’s Office of Business and Financial Services. The expenditures supported faculty research into a...

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...

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