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UC Professor Sweats the Small Stuff Studying Microbes

January 12, 2009
Carolin Frank recalled one of her earliest exposures to the world of science. She was about 10 years old and lived in a rural area of Sweden. While she enjoyed reading comics and Pippi Longstocking books, there were other topics she found just as interesting, namely genetics and DNA. "...

Professor Henry Forman Appointed to San Joaquin Valley AirDistrict

November 5, 2008
UC Merced Professor Henry Forman has been appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, the board that oversees air quality in the eight-county region. Forman, a founding faculty member and professor of chemistry and biochemistry in...

Evolutionary Biology Professor Combines Global Research, Local Teaching

March 28, 2007
A few places on Earth are known as nature's best laboratories for studying evolution - the Galapagos Islands, the Antilles, and the freshwater lakes of British Columbia, for example. For Professor Michael N. Dawson of UC Merced's School of Natural Sciences, seawater lakes in Palau, New...

UC Merced Professor Receives Prop. 99 Grant Money to StudyTobacco Effects

June 20, 2005
In 1988, California voters approved Proposition 99, an initiative specifying that five percent of cigarette tax revenue be appropriated for research on tobacco-related disease. UC Merced professor Henry Jay Forman is now bringing $420,000 of that money to Merced to study how human bronchial...

UC Merced Lung Disease Expert Seeks Secrets to Breathing Easier

April 22, 2004
Free radicals. That's a big buzz word these days, but Professor Henry Jay Forman was focusing his research on free radicals and lung disease in the 1960s when only a few elite researchers even thought about them as part of biology. Forman, who has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, is investigating what...

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