Banning smoking in the workplace and increasing taxes on cigarettes have discouraged teens and young adults from taking up smoking, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Merced.
The annual Research Week tabling event has more than doubled in size from last year, and that’s just one of the new and growing events featured in UC Merc
A team of scientists led by UC Merced Professor Aaron D.
Professor Linda Hirst, with the School of Natural Sciences, has been elected to the executive council of GSOFT, the new Topical Group on Soft Matter in the American Phy
By Jeremy Olson for UC Merced Magazine
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the fall 2015 issue of UC Merced Magazine.
Scholars and educators alike believe raising expectations leads to higher achievement and self esteem among adolescents.
Research indicates that obesity can increase a woman’s risk of developing and dying from breast cancer. But while communication about healthy eating has proven to be effective, a growing and significant subset of the population might not be getting the message.
UC Merced lecturer Carol Sipan became concerned with the social stigma of HIV in some developing countries after a 2009 trip to Burundi, where she and a colleague from Tanzania were training pastors and church leaders on what they and their congregations could d
Last fall, the 