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国产传媒 Research

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As it is at all University of California campuses, research is the cornerstone of 国产传媒. Innovative faculty members conduct interdisciplinary, groundbreaking research that will solve complex problems affecting the San Joaquin Valley, California and the world. Students 鈥� as early as their first years 鈥� have opportunities to work right alongside them, sometimes even publishing in journals and presenting at conferences.

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Forest Carbon: Store it or Burn it? Actually, Both is Best

Storing carbon in forests is an essential, nature-based buffer against climate change. Yet forests packed with too many trees increase the threat of severe wildfires, which are becoming all too common in warmer, drier conditions. A team of 国产传媒...
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国产传媒 Professor Daisy Verduzco Reyes

Study: Mexican American Millennials Link Success to Providing for Parents

For many first-generation Mexican American college graduates, the definition of success includes paying their parents鈥� bills or even buying them a home. Lifting the social or financial status of their elders is a goal that often defines upward...
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Research isn鈥檛 limited to labs with beakers and microscopes, though there are plenty of those here.

The list of 国产传媒鈥檚 research strengths is long and includes climate change and ecology; solar and renewable energy; water quality and resources; artificial intelligence; cognitive science; stem-cell, diabetes and cancer research; air quality; big-data analysis; computer science; mechanical, environmental and materials engineering; political science; and much, much more.

The campus also has interdisciplinary research institutes with which faculty members affiliate themselves to conduct even more in-depth investigations into a variety of scientific topics.

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Ancient Genomes from the Andes Highlands Reveal Novel Adaptations

The genomes of ancient Andean settlers reveal a complex picture of human adaptation, including when they became able to digest starches and how evolutionary modifications allowed them to live at such high altitudes. A new paper co-authored by 国产传媒...
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Health Communication Researcher Working to Improve Internet-based Medical Information

If you鈥檙e an American with Internet access, you鈥檝e probably done it. You get a headache, a sniffle or a mystery bruise, and instead of seeing your doctor, you consult 鈥淒r. Google.鈥� According to some studies, more than 80 percent of Americans have used...
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Emergence, Extinction of Massive Ancient Shark to be Explored with NSF Grant

Forty million years after dinosaurs went extinct, one of the largest predators that ever prowled Earth鈥檚 oceans emerged, feeding the imaginations of modern scientists and the nightmares of modern movie audiences. Megalodon 鈥� the name means 鈥榞iant tooth...
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Professor鈥檚 Novel Mercury-Mapping Project Wins State Grant

Civil and environmental engineering Professor Erin Hestir鈥檚 proposal for a unique system of mapping mercury in the waters of the San Francisco Delta has won her and her team of collaborators a $1.7 million grant from the California Department of Fish...
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Frustration and Compromise in Flocking Cells Produce New Migration Patterns

Even if some members of a goal-driven group don鈥檛 seem to work well with others 鈥� even if the whole group is extremely frustrated 鈥� the group can still compromise and find new ways to produce a successful outcome. This sounds like a political allegory,...
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$1.5M Grant Will Transform Chemistry Curriculum, Improve Access to STEM Careers

It鈥檚 a startling statistic: Nearly 30 percent of 国产传媒 students who start their college careers in the School of Natural Sciences (SNS) switch to majors outside the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields by their second year. But a...
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