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

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A groundbreaking database that tracks 13 decades ofannual changes in U.S. home sales and rental pricesprovides a clearer picture of economic shifts through the 20th century and will be a valuable resource for homebuyers, housing policymakers and...
Lab members Zabir Mahmud and Farzan ZareAfifi are pictured on either side of electrical engineering Professor Sarah Kurtz.
As California lawmakers consider a package of billsaimed at increasing the production of clean energy, a major question arises: How would we store all this new power? Storage is a vital issue because while the state can create plenty of energy...

Research isn’t limited to labs with beakers and microscopes, though there are plenty of those here.

The list of abcֱ’s 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.

Recent Articles

abcֱ Professor Christiana Spitzmueller
Black and Hispanic faculty members seeking promotion at research universities face career-damaging biases, with their scholarly production judged more harshly than that of their peers, according to a groundbreaking initiative co-led by abcֱ that...
Illustration for abcֱ home price database research
A groundbreaking database that tracks 13 decades ofannual changes in U.S. home sales and rental pricesprovides a clearer picture of economic shifts through the 20th century and will be a valuable resource for homebuyers, housing policymakers and the...
Cognitive science robot experiment
In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a abcֱ study allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them -- an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial intelligence, researchers said. Human subjects...
Lab members Zabir Mahmud and Farzan ZareAfifi are pictured on either side of electrical engineering Professor Sarah Kurtz.
As California lawmakers consider a package of billsaimed at increasing the production of clean energy, a major question arises: How would we store all this new power? Storage is a vital issue because while the state can create plenty of energy through...
Lions consume a giraffe carcass in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.
A group of abcֱ researchers modeled predation behaviors, as well as changes in those behaviors, among large carnivores, developing a new theory that will help biologists assess the health of various ecosystems. Department of Life and Environmental...
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Experiments conducted by abcֱ researchers find that people who perform good deeds are far more likely to be thought of as religious believers than atheists. Moreover, the psychological bias linking kindness and helpfulness with faith appears to be...
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