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UC Plans for Fall 2021 In-person Instruction Across Its 10 Campuses

January 11, 2021

The University of California announced today that it is planning for a return to primarily in-person instruction systemwide starting in fall 2021. The announcement is intended to provide prospective and current students and their families time to understand the University’s goals and plans amid the...

Chemical Biology Lab Creating DNA-based Nanomachines that can Self Assemble

December 21, 2020

Professor Tao Ye and colleagues have received a $1.18 million grant from the Department of Energy to study how DNA molecules can arrange themselves into nanostructures that could form the basis of nanoelectronic circuits. All living things are the products of self-assembly, a process in which...

Earn a Ph.D. in Economics at UC Merced

December 18, 2020

Economics has gained a reputation for being a rather dry topic. However, that is a generalization that is wrong in many ways. For example, an economics graduate degree does not focus on just a single thing. Instead, it is a topic that encompasses many subjects and areas. It is an approach that...

Virtual Fall Commencement Customized for Grads

December 17, 2020

UC Merced will host its second virtual ceremony for the Fall 2020 Commencement on Dec. 19, with a host of changes meant to confer upon students the distinct importance of the achievement. New this time: Each of the three schools — Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts; Natural Sciences; and...

Fellowship Advances Student’s Research into Arab American Smoking Behaviors

December 17, 2020

Public Health doctoral student Sarah Alnahari was awarded a UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) Predoctoral Fellowship to continue her community-driven research examining tobacco use among Arab Americans in the San Joaquin Valley. The TRDRP is an initiative created through tobacco...

Innovate to Grow Coming to a Zoom Room Near You

December 15, 2020

UC Merced’s premier experiential learning expo, Innovate to Grow (I2G), is providing students, faculty and staff with a new set of experiences to learn from this year, as the event continues in a virtual format to comply with pandemic safety guidelines. “Our students, faculty and staff have adapted...

Breast Milk Shows Promise for Treating COVID-19 and Protecting Babies

December 14, 2020

Health psychology Professor Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook and incoming grad student Jessica Marino have a new study suggesting that the breastmilk of mothers who have recovered from COVID-19 contains strong antibodies to the virus. In the fight against the global pandemic, there is an urgent need to...

Physicist Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Create ‘Bacteria Treadmill’

December 10, 2020

Physics Professor Bin Liu has received a CAREER award for his research into a new micromanipulation technique to virtually hold freely moving microorganisms, essentially creating a “bacterial treadmill” to enable biological and medical studies of microorganisms in their natural state. He is the...

Q&A: How People Decide Whether to Comply with Public Health Orders

December 9, 2020

How do people decide whether to comply with public health directives around the COVID-19 pandemic, such as wearing masks, social distancing and staying at home? Whether to take such preventative measures is a personal decision based on many factors. According to previous research, it would be...

Fall Commencement: UC Merced a ‘Companion’ for Student Speaker

December 8, 2020

For Xiaolong “Harry” Chen, UC Merced is more than a university. “It is a friend and a companion,” he wrote in his application to be student speaker at Fall Commencement. Together, they experienced pre-dawn hours at Lantern Café, early evening discourses with friends, and 11 p.m. sprints to complete...