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For GradSLAM Champion, Research Is Personal

April 12, 2016

Arturo Durazo, winner of this year’s UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, has a personal connection to his research. The fifth-year Ph.D. candidate studies the psychological effects of debilitating illnesses. Most recently, he has been researching the way thoughts and emotions guide behaviors...

Study Shows How Plants Could Adapt to Changing Climate

April 5, 2016

If you want to understand how plant populations will respond as the climate changes, just examine the plants in different locations. That’s one of the conclusions drawn by UC Merced School of Natural Sciences Professor Jason Sexton in a new paper that’s part of a special...

New Lecture Series Articulates Campus’s Core Values

March 31, 2016

Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez has had, by all accounts, an extraordinarily successful academic career. He began as an immigrant from Mexico City and wound up researching and teaching at Cornell University for 18 years before moving to Arizona State University in 2004 — with multiple awards...

Students Part of ‘Symbiotic’ Effort to Meld Art With Science

March 28, 2016

Graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan translated her love of science into four separate college degrees. She holds bachelor’s degrees in biology, chemistry, and environmental and sustainability studies, and a master’s in biochemistry (marine science) from universities in Utah and New ...

UC Merced Graduate Work Showcased In Sacramento

March 21, 2016

Childhood obesity and the environment took center stage last week when UC Merced graduate students and the graduate dean visited lawmakers in Sacramento to advocate for the importance of graduate student research to the state of California. Andrew Zumkehr, Graduate Dean Zatz, and Beatriz Sosa-...

Study: Fishing Industry a Bigger Polluter than Previously Known

March 18, 2016

Many studies have shown that raising cattle and pigs for food is hard on the environment, and fish has long been considered a better alternative. But the work of UC Merced graduate student Brandi McKuin indicates that because of emissions, fishing for large fish like tuna warms the climate just...

Lecture to Highlight Campus’s Diverse, Interdisciplinary Spirit

March 14, 2016

UC Merced is launching a new public lecture series that combines the campus’s emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship with its strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez The Chancellor’s Dialogue on Diversity and Interdisciplinarity will host its...

Second Annual GradSLAM! Makes Graduate Research Accessible

March 4, 2016

Graduate Division kicked off its second annual GradSLAM! competition with two sets of qualifying rounds on Tuesday, March 1. GradSLAM!, a UC system-wide competition, provides graduate students with a forum to explain the methods, results, and significance of their research. The competition is...

UC Merced Named to Carnegie List of Research Universities

February 12, 2016

The University of California, Merced, has been designated a “doctoral-granting university with higher research activity” — or R2, the second-highest classification for American research universities — in its first appearance on the highly cited Carnegie Classification of...

BEST Chair Victor Muñoz Wins Highly Competitive Keck Award

February 10, 2016

Professor Victor Muñoz's novel approach to advancing biomedical research has earned him the campus’s first prestigious Keck Award, including $1 million over the next five years. The University of California, Merced, professor was chosen by the W.M. Keck Foundation, which...