UC Merced 2017-18 First Year Viewbook

Research AT OUR CORE At UC Merced, some of the world’s foremost scholars team up with students to focus on creating new products and technologies that will improve our daily lives. They collaborate to solve some of society’s most pressing issues, from disease to global warming, and everything in between. As an undergraduate, you will have opportunities to take your learning beyond the classroom out into the field or in a laboratory.

UC Merced was ranked in 2016 among 107 top universities in the country as a “higher research” institution by the Carnegie Foundation

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Research Facilities

Institutes and Centers

Across All Disciplines

> Imaging and Microscopy Facility (IMF) > Light Microscopy and Crystallography Modeling Center > Mechanical Test Laboratory > Merced Nanomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing (MACES) > Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) Environmental Analytical Laboratory > Stable Isotope Laboratory > Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry (SCIF) > UC Natural Reserve System

> Center for Computational Biology > Center of Excellence for the Study of Health Disparities > Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) > Health Sciences Research Institute > Resource Center for Community Engaged Scholarship (ReCCES) > Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) > Small Business Development Center (SBDC) > University of California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute (UC Solar)

Some examples of recent research conducted by faculty and students:

»» Professor and biologist Miriam Barlow helped develop a method to restore the efficacy of antibiotics and help doc- tors deal with resistant bacteria. »» Through the World Heritage program in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, students and faculty involved in a project titled “Bodie Digital Community - Connect with Your Past” designed and developed an augmented reality mobile app that brought to life the town of Bodie, a California State Historic Park that is at risk of being lost due to wildfires and lack of funding for conservation. »» Adjunct Professor Gabriela Loots is studying why certain can- cers prefer to metastasize to bone. Loots is trying to identify, characterize and potentially exploit the information pack- aged in different types of extracellular vesicles to determine if they can distinguish aggressive forms of breast cancer that rapidly spread in the body. I WILL BUILD THE FUTURE

»» Three students were selected as fellows for the Global Food Initiative to work on projects including increasing food re- covery, advancing food literacy and expanding experiential learning opportunities in food systems. »» Professor Danielle Edwards was part of a teamof researchers that made a discovery about two groups of giant Galapagos tortoises — they are actually two different species. »» Undergraduate mechanical engineering student Rebecca Quinte worked with Professor Andrea Joyce on a project that aims to shoo away leaf-footed bugs, insects that feed on the seeds of crops, research that could end up benefitting farmers in the Central Valley and beyond.

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC) encourages and facilitates faculty-mentored undergraduate research projects and creative activities. The UROC website hosts a database of research opportunities, and workshops and events are ongoing.

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2017-18 First Year Viewbook

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