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Postdoc Earns Prestigious NIH Award to Study Health Disparities

September 17, 2018
Jaapna Dhillon had no idea that studying how almonds affect health would win her a huge advantage in securing a tenure-track position. But Dhillon just became UC Merced’s first postdoctoral researcher to receive a Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “The K99/...

Could UC Merced Lead the Change Toward More Inclusivity in STEM?

September 17, 2018
UC Merced is uniquely positioned to be a change agent in how the academy addresses diversity in STEM, said Professor Donna Riley, the Kamyar Haghighi Head of Purdue’s School of Engineering Education. Riley was the featured speaker at the Chancellor’s Dialogue on Diversity and Interdisciplinarity on...

Frustration and Compromise in Flocking Cells Produce New Migration Patterns

September 12, 2018
Even if some members of a goal-driven group don’t seem to work well with others — even if the whole group is extremely frustrated — the group can still compromise and find new ways to produce a successful outcome. This sounds like a political allegory, but it’s actually a novel finding about...

UC Climate-Change Research is One Focus of Global Summit, New Reports

September 11, 2018
California aims to lead the nation — and the globe — in climate change research, policy and action — in large part through climate-focused research conducted at University of California campuses and labs. Some of that research, including from UC Merced, will be on display this week as climate-...

News and Notes: Campus Hosts Writing Conference, Citizen Police Academy; Blood Drive

September 11, 2018
Equity, diversity and inclusion is the theme of the eighth annual UC Writing Program Conference at UC Merced on Nov. 2 and 3. English Professor Juan Guerra, chair of the University of Washington’s American Ethnic Studies department, will present his research addressing translingualism,...

UC Merced Rises Nearly 30 Spots in U.S. News Rankings

September 10, 2018
If the University of California, Merced, is indeed the future of the UC, that future is looking brighter than ever. In the midst of an unprecedented campus expansion, UC Merced continues to build a national reputation for research excellence and academic distinction, while remaining one of the...

$2.5M Grant Will Help Professor to Build a Powerful Molecular Imaging Scanner

September 5, 2018
Bioengineering Professor Changqing Li was recently awarded a four-year, $2.5 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help develop a focused X-ray luminescence tomography (FXLT) scanner that could accelerate cancer research. The scanner is a first-of-its kind molecular...

Lecture Will Examine How to Increase Equity, Inclusion in STEM

September 5, 2018
Despite efforts to increase diversity among science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines, inclusion continues to be a struggle, said Donna Riley, professor of engineering education at Purdue University. Riley, the Kamyar Haghighi Head of Purdue’s School of Engineering Education,...

Understanding Why Designs Work — or Don’t — is Important

September 4, 2018
Just because a design works once doesn’t mean that the research and development is done. That’s why, Professor Sarah Kurtz argues in a new commentary in the prestigious journal Nature Energy , it’s important to do the quality assurance science that shows why products sometimes don’t work. “If...

$1.5M Grant Will Transform Chemistry Curriculum, Improve Access to STEM Careers

September 4, 2018
It’s a startling statistic: Nearly 30 percent of UC Merced students who start their college careers in the School of Natural Sciences (SNS) switch to majors outside the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields by their second year. But a new five-year, $1.5 million grant from the...

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