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Researcher’s Work Could Help Stop Aggressive Breast Cancers

October 21, 2016

Adjunct Professor Gabriela Loots is studying why certain cancers prefer to metastasize to bone, using novel technology developed by fellow UC Merced Professor Michael Cleary. Her work, which takes place mainly at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, earned her a three-year, $768,803 grant from...

Grad Students Help Begin Academic Exchange With Honduras

October 20, 2016

Four UC Merced graduate students got a rare opportunity to establish and strengthen relationships between the campus and the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) this summer. The students — Danielle Bermudez, Maria Mora, Rodolfo Rodriguez and Alejandro Zermeño — traveled to Honduras to...

Faculty, Grad Students Begin Academic Exchange with Honduras

October 19, 2016

Four UC Merced graduate students got a rare opportunity to establish and strengthen relationships between the campus and the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) this summer. (Left to right) UC Merced graduate students Danielle Bermudez, Maria Mora, Alejandro Zermeño, and Rodolfo...

Student Health and Counseling Services Receive National Accreditation

October 19, 2016

UC Merced’s H. Rajender Reddy Health Center, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and Health Promotion received accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), distinguishing the university from many other facilities. The campus received its initial...

Mechanical Engineering Now an Officially Accredited Graduate Degree

October 17, 2016

Current and prospective graduate students now have the option to earn degrees in mechanical engineering, after the UC system and the WASC Senior College and University Commission recently granted accreditation for both master’s and doctoral degrees. Mechanical engineering students at UC Merced...

Mechanical Engineering Program Gets New Accreditation

October 17, 2016

Current and prospective graduate students now have the option to earn degrees in mechanical engineering, after the UC system and the WASC Senior College and University Commission recently granted accreditation for both master’s and doctoral degrees. Mechanical engineering students...

Campus to Celebrate Spendlove Winner Anita Hill

October 12, 2016

UC Merced will honor Anita Hill as the 10th recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance in an Oct. 24 ceremony at the Art Kamangar Center at the Merced Theatre. The ceremony begins at 6 p.m. and is open to the public, but registration is required....

Winston Feted for Golden Anniversary of Landmark Discovery

October 10, 2016

Fifty years ago this year, while a freshman faculty member in the University of Chicago Physics Department, Roland Winston published a paper introducing a new field he called nonimaging optics. In it, he described the compound parabolic concentrator (CPC), a highly efficient device that collects...

Researchers Eye Foggy Link Between Redwoods, Climate Change

October 6, 2016

Most Americans have probably seen gorgeous photos of fog winding its way through California’s coastal redwoods. The trees are one of the state’s most prominent icons, drawing more than 2 million visitors a year. But at a time when rising sea levels, melting polar ice, droughts and superstorms are...

AWRA awards Lorenzo Booth's research on water-use by crops

October 4, 2016

The California drought has exacerbated some of the challenges farmers face. For example, they have to spend more on water, and not just because there is less to go around. A warmer climate causes water to evaporate faster and can force plants to consume more for the same amount of growth. But...

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