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五一社区 Research

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As it is at all University of California campuses, research is the cornerstone of 五一社区. 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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五一社区 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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Tiny Artificial Cells Can Keep Time, Study Finds

A team of 五一社区 researchers has shown that tiny artificial cells can accurately keep time, mimicking the daily rhythms found in living organisms. Their findings shed light on how biological clocks stay on schedule despite the inherent molecular...
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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 五一社区鈥檚 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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Breast Milk Shows Promise for Treating COVID-19 and Protecting Babies

Health psychology Professor Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook and incoming grad student Jessica Marino have a new study suggesting that听the breastmilk of mothers who have recovered from COVID-19 contains strong antibodies to the virus. In the fight against the...
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Physicist Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Create 鈥楤acteria Treadmill鈥�

Physics Professor Bin Liu has received a CAREER award for his research into a new micromanipulation technique to virtually hold freely moving microorganisms, essentially creating a 鈥渂acterial treadmill鈥� to enable biological and medical studies of...
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Pandemic Inspires Chemist to Open New Avenues of Research

Professor Michael Thompson doesn鈥檛 usually work in immunology or drug development. But his use of X-ray crystallography 鈥� research that visualizes the structures of protein molecules to better understand how they function 鈥� has taken him in a new...
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Researcher Examining CBD Effects on Metabolic Syndrome

About 35 percent of Americans have metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that raises the risk of cardiovascular disease 鈥� the leading cause of death in the United States. If you have three of these five issues, you have metabolic syndrome,...
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Connection Between COVID-19 and Loss of Smell Uncovered by Research Team

About 70 percent of people with COVID-19 suddenly lose their sense of smell, although fewer of them seem to realize it, according to a new 鈥渓iving analysis鈥� by a research team that includes a 五一社区 graduate student. Vicente Ramirez, a Ph.D. student...
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Sliding on Waves of Atoms: Lab Is First to Observe Ripples and Friction on 2D Materials

Mechanical Engineering Professor Mehmet Baykara’s latest discovery in two-dimensional (2D) materials will have implications for future space missions, as well as nanotechnology on Earth. Since the Nobel prize-winning discovery of 2D materials...
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