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Study: Skewed Academic Expectations Linked to Sexual Risk

October 14, 2015
Scholars and educators alike believe raising expectations leads to higher achievement and self esteem among adolescents. But new research from the University of California, Merced, shows that when a young woman’s achievement level doesn’t live up to those expectations, the result can be an increase...

Study: Skewed Academic Expectations Linked to Sexual Risk

October 14, 2015
Scholars and educators alike believe raising expectations leads to higher achievement and self esteem among adolescents. But new research from the University of California, Merced, shows that when a young woman’s achievement level doesn’t live up to those expectations, the result can be...

Project Aims to Fight Breast Cancer One Message at a Time

October 13, 2015
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. A new project at the University of...

Event Connects High School Girls with Female Scientists

October 6, 2015
While many young women her age are thinking about their favorite shoes or who they’ll go with to the winter formal, Callie Nance, 15, is thinking about her favorite science organizations and her future as a physicist. That’s why the Dinner with a Scientist event at UC Merced last week was so...

New Nanomaterials Taking Research to Mexico, Possibly into Space

September 28, 2015
Professors Linda Hirst and Sayantani Ghosh are combining liquid crystals with nanoparticles such as gold and quantum dots to come up with a new platform that could have applications in fields such as optics and medicine. And the two new grants the School of Natural Sciences researchers have earned...

Study: Smoke-Free Zones, Higher Taxes Deter Youth Smoking

September 8, 2015
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 study, published today (Sept. 8) in JAMA Pediatrics, used data from the Bureau of Labor...

Scientists Decipher the Tick-Tock of Biological Clocks

June 25, 2015
In forthcoming Science paper, UC Merced’s Andy LiWang shows how the shift from nighttime to daytime biological functions depends on the unusual movements of a single protein Quick Facts • A new study by Professor Andy LiWang, to be published in Science, helps unlock the mysteries of the...

Research Shows Increased Risk of Toxoplasmosis

February 24, 2015
A third of all humans carry the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis — a disease commonly associated with cats, HIV-AIDS patients and pregnant women — with scientists long believing healthy immune systems control the parasite and prevent the disease from emerging. But new research by...

National Article Award on Health Care and Other Privatizations

October 15, 2014
In late August 2014 Professor Almeida was awarded the Best Published Article Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) section on the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS) for his paper “Subnational Opposition to Globalization” published in the journal Social Forces...

The Mysterious Fungus Infecting the American Southwest

August 8, 2014
By Madeleine Thomas, The Atlantic Barragan’s extensive exposure to the soil as a farmworker puts him at a higher risk of developing valley fever, but Ramos says they had never heard of the disease before. “If we knew more about it, he probably would have been more careful,”...

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