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Wiebe Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award for Child and Family Health Research

March 24, 2021

The Society of Behavioral Medicine Child and Family Health Special Interest Group has recognized Professor Deborah Wiebe with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to child and family health. She is the Society’s second Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from UC Merced’s Department...

Stop Asian Hate, Stop Black Hate, Stop All Hate

March 21, 2021

Guaranteed Freshman Admission to Eligible Local Students

March 16, 2021

Graduate Student’s Immune-system Research Attracts NIH Award

March 12, 2021

Graduate student Betsabel Chicana ’s research into understanding how the immune system works when there’s a problem inside the bones has earned her a prestigious fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Chicana, a fifth-year Quantitative and Systems Biology Ph.D. candidate who...

Ultra-cold Energy Storage Could Power Future Space Travel

March 10, 2021

Female Faculty to Know on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2021

International Women’s Day is more than a day to celebrate the fantastic females around us. It is a day to reflect on the contributions women have made both socially and politically around the world. Women across the globe have used their gifts and talents to help others in myriad ways, and UC...

Q&A: Latinx Community Impacted by Food Insecurity During COVID-19

March 3, 2021

COVID-19 has left the food insecure population especially vulnerable. The pandemic has upset food supply chains and in turn, access to healthy and nutritious food has become even more difficult. A cadre of public health professors are lending insight into how the food shortage has specifically...

GROW Grants Nurture Vital Projects During Pandemic

February 24, 2021

Two faculty members and three graduate students who are working on food systems, food security and food sustainability research have received small grants through the UC Global Food Initiative (GFI) to bolster their projects. “COVID-19 has really dampened research, so we wanted to find ways to...

Q&A: How Public Health Research Can Shape Inclusive Immigration Policies

February 23, 2021

President Joe Biden and the Democrat-controlled Congress have started boldly with immigration. On Feb. 18, Democrats introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, which would rollback many of President Donald Trump’s policies and bring comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to...

UC Merced Reaches Out with an All-Virtual Research Week

February 22, 2021

The question: What happens when UC Merced holds Research Week in the middle of a pandemic? The hypothesis: An annual, weeklong presentation of ground-breaking work reaches a big, new virtual audience. With the Research Week’s usual in-person seminars, tours and showcases untenable because of COVID-...