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Future of Humanity Linked to Soil Health in New 'Science' Article

May 7, 2015
Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the dirt under their feet. But a new article co-authored by UC Merced Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and published this week in the prestigious journal Science provides plenty of reasons why we should. Soil health isn’t just a matter of...

Researchers Reverse Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics

May 6, 2015
The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a growing problem in the United States and the world. New findings by researchers in evolutionary biology and mathematics could help doctors better address the problem in a clinical setting.   Biologist Miriam Barlow of the University of California,...

Researcher Develops New Cloud Security Method for Mobile Users

May 4, 2015
A UC Merced researcher has come up with a new, super-efficient encryption system for smart phones that lets users secure data being sent to and retrieved from the cloud. Encrypting data on your phone or tablet — including pictures, documents and videos — protects against the kinds of leaks and...

Mentoring Program Empowers Student Leaders

May 1, 2015
For senior Jessica Nguyen, UC Merced has fueled more than academic preparedness — it has sparked her fervent interest in civic leadership. Nguyen has been involved in the Women’s Program’s Lift While You Lead mentoring network for the past two years. The goal is to increase high school graduation...

Campus Celebrates 10th Annual Leadership Awards

April 30, 2015
The 2015 UC Merced Leadership Awards were held this evening (April 30) at the Wallace-Dutra Amphitheater. Presented by the Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center, the awards recognize and celebrate students, staff and faculty members, and student organizations who are doing remarkable things on...

Chemist to Lobby for NSF Funding at Washington Event

April 29, 2015
Chemistry Professor Hrant Hratchian is part of a delegation of academics at the Coalition for National Science Funding’s (CNSF) advocacy day in Washington, D.C., today. Hratchian will show his lab’s research with an exhibit titled, “Better Living Through Computational Chemistry.” “We use computers...

Mapping Genomes of Pine Bacteria Yields Unexpected Results

April 29, 2015
UC Merced Professor Carolin Frank is helping figure out how a certain bacteria helps promote healthy tree growth by studying the bacteria’s genome sequence. In the new paper, published in the open-access journal mBio, Frank and research colleagues in Finland said their discoveries could have...

Grad Student Uses Math to Study Deadly Diseases

April 27, 2015
Graduate student Jason Davis doesn’t use a traditional lab to study prion diseases. Instead, he relies on computer modeling and applied mathematics. Working with Suzanne Sindi, a professor of applied mathematics at UC Merced, Davis is trying to unlock the mysteries of prions and the destructive...

NPR | Mellow Pastimes Can Be Good For Your Health, Too

April 24, 2015
Professor Matthew Zawadzki explains that leisure activities have immediate benefits in terms of lowering stress and reducing heart rate, and those benefits can persist for hours.

Grad Student Examines Use of Social Media in Health Care

April 23, 2015
The use of images and direct questions by health communicators on Facebook tends to increase user engagement, though linking to external websites and videos does not. Posts conveying positive emotions have no clear impact on engagement, while negative ones — including expressions of depression,...

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