Wednesday 14 May 2025
The community is invited to an all-day summit where researchers will present cutting-edge information on the latest efforts to stem tobacco use in the San Joaquin Valley and surrounding foothills.
The Tobacco Control Summit is scheduled for Thursday, June 6 at The Mainzer, 655 W. Main St. in downtown Merced. Capacity is limited so attendees are urged to register by 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 22.
It was a groundbreaking Tuesday night so there were shovels. Many shovels. Full sized, posterized, miniaturized (in a gift box). All to mark a symbolic turning of earth for UC Merced’s Medical Education Center.
The tools also evoke something Dr. Kenny Banh said nearly a year ago. A top administrator at UC San Francisco's Fresno campus, he was talking about San Joaquin Valley PRIME, a program that prepared students from the Valley for a medical career. Training included at least a year in the Bay Area.
UC Merced’s Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center has earned multiyear funding to continue its mission to embolden community partners and share policy-influencing data in the long battle against the pervasive use of tobacco and other inhalants in underserved San Joaquin Valley and foothill populations.
Thirteen graduating students were honored by UC Merced’s School of Social Science, Humanities and Arts for outstanding academic careers.
Please use the radio button options below to rank the candidates for the position of HSRI interim director as your FIRST, SECOND and THIRD choice.
This vote is deliberately anonymous.
Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.
Please be sure to choose a different candidate in each position!
In the event of a tie between candidates receiving the most first place votes, I will weight positions 1-3 in order to break that tie. Should this method still result in a tie, I will organize a run-off vote.
In Professor Xuecai Ge ’s lab, where UC Merced researchers study how cells talk to each other to develop and differentiate, a recent surprise discovery is lending insight as to how erroneous cell signals lead to disease and birth defects.
Ge and her colleagues zeroed in on a slice of the communication system, the primary cilia, and found a protein called Numb, which they didn’t expect to be there.
Numb facilitates development of the spinal cord and cerebellum during embryonic neurodevelopment.
The National Science Foundation awarded a team, led by principal investigators Professor Ajay Gopinathan and Carrie Kouadio, funding to establish a summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at UC Merced.
This new program seeks to increase the diversity of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research community.
Please cast your vote YES or NO for the AFFILIATE membership applicants listed (in the lower half of this page). You may access the CV and statement of interest for each applicant here:
Eli Sachse
Norma Cardona
