Buried in California’s new $ 201 billion budget is important news for those with a disease that affects many here in Central California: $ 8 million in funding for valley fever research and awareness. For several years we’ve been reporting about this airborne fungal disease which is endemic to arid …
Read More »UC Merced Immunology Research Holds Promise For Future Treatments
There’s new research out from scientists at UC Merced that could shed new light on the roots of autoimmune diseases, and also holds promise for future cancer treatments. The study in The Journal of Immunology looks at so-called “misbehaving” killer immune cells. It builds upon research that took place in …
Read More »New Research On Autism: Growth Spurt Studied; Law Enforcement Needs Better Training
New research into autisim is revealing insights into early childhood development, and a growth spurt some suggest could be linked to autisim in young boys. That’s the takeaway from a new study profiled in the news publication Spectrum, by former Fresno Bee reporter Hannah Furfaro. She joined us on Valley …
Read More »UC Merced’s First Student Fulbright Scholar Heads to El Salvador for Research
UC Merced Interdisciplinary Humanities Ph.D. candidate Danielle Bermudez will spend the next 10 months in El Salvador, conducting research and serving as a cultural ambassador for the campus as a … Click to Continue »
Read More »Join UC’s Advocacy Network and Support Humanities Research
Besides being a groundbreaking research powerhouse, the University of California is an economic engine for California and the nation, providing an educated workforce and generating new knowledge, technologies, jobs, start-up … Click to Continue »
Read More »Military’s Early Valley Fever Research Still Benefiting Public Health Today
In the city of Lemoore, a community of 25,000 rising out of arid cropland in California’s San Joaquin Valley, almost everyone has a story about valley fever. Take Frank Bernhardt, nursing a beer at the Fleet Reserve bar on the edge of town. He first encountered the disease just after …
Read More »Florida scientists fear hurricane forecasts, climate research will suffer under Trump
A growing chorus of scientists is raising the alarm over reports of Trump administration budgets cuts that would affect climate change research and hurricane forecasting. On Monday, 32 Florida scientists … Click to Continue »
Read More »Global company partners with UC Merced for almond research
Yara North America, a global company known for its fertilizers, is giving UC Merced $ 60,000 to fund a graduate fellowship and two undergraduate scholarships for research in the almond industry. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Research tag not adequately sterilized is linked to death of whale
An endangered orca that died earlier this year likely developed a fatal infection after a scientist failed to adequately sterilize a research tag that was shot into its body, according … Click to Continue »
Read More »UC Merced grant expands research for undergrads
A $ 500,000 grant came to UC Merced from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation It’s for expanding research for undergraduates The program is aimed at historically underrepresented groups and first-generation college students … Click to Continue »
Read More »UC Merced Connect: Research on Oregon farmworkers started with family
When UC Merced Professor Mario Sifuentez was a graduate student, he didn’t have to look far to find a subject to research; members of his family had been migrant workers … Click to Continue »
Read More »NSF grant brings $5 million for research and outreach
Researchers at UC Merced have won a $ 5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how biological matter such as proteins or cells come together to perform specific … Click to Continue »
Read More »Donations sought to help leukemia, lymphoma research and survivors
Fundraiser for cancer research needed by May 20 $ 1,200 needed to reach minimum goal Individual who donates the most will be able to shave two heads for wig donations … Click to Continue »
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