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Graduate Student’s Research Examines Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism

February 24, 2012
Born in Nebraska to a Persian mother and a father whose military duty took the family to Europe for much of her childhood, Kandice Soraya Grote grew up speaking English, German and Farsi. Upon returning to the United States, her parents worried she would have trouble speaking and understanding...

Professor Awarded Collaborative Grant in Solar Energy Conversion

February 22, 2012
  UC Merced applied math Professor Boaz Ilan is a major contributor to a national research team exploring a novel way to use fractal geometry to improve the production of electricity in solar panels. Ilan is working with researchers from the University of Denver, the University of Oregon and UC...

Library Digitizes Civil War Diaries from Valley Family

February 15, 2012
Diaries belonging to a Civil War soldier who witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln have been digitized and published by UC Merced’s Kolligian Library. Henry O. Nightingale was an abolitionist and Union soldier. His diary contains a firsthand account of Lincoln’s assassination at...

Graduate Student Focuses Research on Infectious Disease

February 9, 2012
Mufadhal Al-Kuhlani came to UC Merced to help reduce the threat of harmful diseases through innovative research. Al-Kuhlani is studying immunology within the Quantitative and Systems Biology graduate program. He’s working with Professor David Ojcius to better understand chlamydia. More than 1.2...

Engineering Professor Looks to Make an Impact

February 7, 2012
Professor Ashlie Martini was looking for the chance to make a difference when she took a post at UC Merced. Martini, now a professor in the UC Merced School of Engineering, was most recently a faculty member at Purdue University, home to about 40,000 students. But she wanted to work at a university...

National Geographic Film Chronicles Highland Research

February 7, 2012
Watch Full Episode on PBS. See more from Cave People of the Himalaya. Mark Aldenderfer, dean of UC Merced’s School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, is featured in a National Geographic documentary about his research into an ancient civilization in Nepal. The hourlong film, “Cave People of...

UC Research Resource Center to Serve San Joaquin Valley

February 6, 2012
An innovative community-university partnership to empower San Joaquin Valley residents to analyze and communicate their most pressing challenges launches in Fresno this month. The Participatory Action Research Resource Center (PARRC) will strengthen residents’ skills in using research to improve...

Major Construction Under Way at UC Merced

February 3, 2012
UC Merced is entering a significant new phase of construction, the likes of which the campus has not seen since before it opened in 2005. The construction projects will add nearly 270,000 gross square feet in the next two years, which will increase the campus’ physical space by about 25 percent....

Community-Engaged Research Serves San Joaquin Valley

January 30, 2012
About 180 people attended a conference at UC Merced that connected researchers with community members working to improve the lives of the San Joaquin Valley’s young people. The December conference, “Building Healthy Youth in Merced County: Community Engagement and Scholarship,...

Graduate Student Finds New Career in Military Research

January 27, 2012
As a chemistry teacher at Golden Valley High School in 2004, Scott Seronello frequently told his students to keep working at their education and never give up their dreams. Then his students asked why he hadn’t done that himself. So he applied to UC Merced to pursue his dream of earning a Ph.D.,...

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