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SSHA Professors Conducting Summer Research Projects

July 15, 2015
Like their colleagues in science and engineering, researchers in UC Merced’s School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts are keeping busy this summer with a wide variety of projects. Among them: • Sociology Professors Tanya Golash-Boza and Zulema Valdez are working on a project that seeks to...

Science and Engineering Researchers Stay Busy in Summer

July 13, 2015
The summer might mean an extended break for some in the campus community, but UC Merced researchers are busier than ever. Whether here or abroad, many professors and students are taking advantage of the time off to pursue important research projects.  Below are a few examples from the School of...

CARE Office Moves to New Location in Library

July 9, 2015
The Campus Advocacy, Resources and Education (CARE) Office has moved to a new location in the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library, Room 107. Students and staff and faculty members are invited to an open house from 3 to 5 p.m. on July 10. The CARE Office — formerly called the Violence Prevention...

Researchers Win CITRIS Grants for Four New Technology Projects

July 8, 2015
UC Merced researchers won four of only 11 seed grants given out by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) for the year. CITRIS received 24 highly competitive proposals from the four CITRIS campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz. The...

Campus Names New Police Chief, Assistant Vice Chancellor

July 7, 2015
The University of California, Merced, announced today (July 7) the appointment of Albert Vasquez to the dual role of police chief and assistant vice chancellor for campus and public safety, effective Aug. 17. As assistant vice chancellor, Vasquez will oversee UC Merced’s growing safety programs,...

Climate Scientist Aims to Change National Dialogue, One Story at a Time

July 1, 2015
Climate scientist Emmanuel Vincent noticed climate change discussions in Europe had become somewhat politically polarized before he left France a few years ago, and found the same situation on a larger scale when he came to America. Vincent, now a project scientist with UC Merced’s Center for...

Researcher to Study Nuances of Neurons in the Brain

June 29, 2015
Neurobiologists have identified different types of neurons in the brain, but have struggled to put that knowledge into a useful context because they don't yet fully understand what makes one neuron behave differently from another. A new research project from UC Merced Professor Mike Cleary has the...

openDemocracy | Racism, citizenship and deportation in the United States

June 25, 2015
Professor Tanya Golash-Boza writes that immigration reform in the U.S. must include an overhaul of deportation practices, as well.

Scientists Decipher the Tick-Tock of Biological Clocks

June 25, 2015
Researchers at the University of California, Merced, have taken another step toward unlocking the mysteries of the biological clock. In a study published online today (June 25) in Science Express — and soon to appear in print in the prestigious journal Science — a team led by UC Merced Professor...

Researchers Align Atomic Friction Experiments

June 22, 2015
Working together to study friction on the atomic scale, researchers at UC Merced and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the first atomic-scale experiments and simulations of friction at overlapping speeds. In “Dynamics of Atomic Stick-Slip Friction Examined with Atomic Force Microscopy...

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