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Researchers Enlist Hospital in Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

December 9, 2016

There are 1.7 million multidrug-resistant, hospital-acquired infections that extend hospital stays, increase medical expenses and decrease quality of life. The United States alone reports at least 120,000 deaths annually from resistant infections that are improperly treated because of a scarcity of...

Message From Chancellor Leland on Student Jennifer Mendiola

December 7, 2016

The following message from Chancellor Dorothy Leland was sent to the campus community today, Dec. 7: Dear UC Merced Campus Community, It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that I write today to inform you that graduate student Jennifer Mendiola has been confirmed as one of the victims who...

Picking Over the Past Provides Clues to the Future

November 30, 2016

UC Merced professors Jessica Blois and Justin Yeakel and their graduate students are sifting through time, picking out tiny clues that will give them a mouse’s eye view of the ecosystem that surrounded what is now the La Brea Tar Pits in the middle of Los Angeles. A deeper look into the past...

'Revolutionary Theatre' Performance to Explore Racism, Inequality

November 28, 2016

Students in the UC Merced Global Arts Studies Program will present “Voices of the Revolutionary Theatre Collective” Dec. 8 at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center. The production will explore the history of embedded racism through excerpts from the plays of Luis Valdez, Marvin X, Ben Caldwell,...

High-Altitude Archaeology Uncovers Earliest Evidence of Potato Consumption

November 28, 2016

Every French fry, gnocchi, tater tot and order of hash browns humans have eaten in the past 5,000 years can be traced back to one place in the world — northwestern Bolivia and southern Peru. A paper by UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer and Assistant Project Scientist Claudia Rumold — recently...

Massive VR System Links Merced to the World

November 23, 2016

Imagine being able to explore the newly discovered hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza or microstructures within the human brain, to work on big-data projects with CERN or participate with performers in Australia — all without ever leaving Merced. It’s now possible to have those...

Student, Alumni Creating a Culture of Giving on Campus

November 21, 2016

Management and business economics major Christopher Bernal is leaving a legacy at UC Merced, as the first student to establish an endowed scholarship to support other UC Merced students in their quest for college degrees. Bernal and two alumni have each committed $10,000 as part of Giving Tuesday,...

Will Shadish Memorial Fellowship Announced for Giving Tuesday

November 17, 2016

During this year’s Giving Tuesday — an international day of giving held each year on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving — UC Merced will honor Professor Will Shadish with a new graduate student fellowship fund. On Nov. 29, donors can direct their gifts to the Will Shadish Memorial Graduate...

People in Eurasia are Genetic Hybrids with Evolutionary Advantages, Study Shows

November 16, 2016

It’s not just luck or practice that gets Sherpa mountaineers up the slopes of Mt. Everest each year. Functioning so well at extreme elevations is in the Sherpa and Tibetan DNA — literally. A new study by UC Merced Professor Emilia Huerta-Sánchez — published recently in the journal Molecular Biology...

Grad Student’s Water-Mapping Work Leads to National Recognition

November 9, 2016

UC Merced graduate student Lorenzo Booth’s research into more efficient use of water for agriculture has earned him accolades from the American Water Resources Association for not only producing information, but presenting solutions. “If we can make the process of growing food more efficient and...