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March 28, 2024
Better math adds up to trillions in climate-related savings
A new study greatly reduces uncertainty in climate change predictions, a move economists say could save the world trillions in adaptations for a hotter future.
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March 22, 2024
New center positions UC Riverside as a leader in quantum vibronics
QuVet is funded by a $7.5M grant from the Department of Defense
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March 14, 2024
Dog-killing flatworm discovered in Southern California
UC Riverside scientists confirm, for the first time, that a potentially fatal dog parasite is present in a portion of the Colorado River that runs through California.
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March 06, 2024
Buzzworthy: new podcast sorts insect facts from fiction
For those curious about insects – their behavior, love lives, the threat or lack thereof they pose to humans – there is a new podcast from UC Riverside: Can I Bug You?
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March 01, 2024
Empowering Scientific Advancements
Ernst and Helen Leibacher's donation of land to UCR fund the establishment of an endowed chair in botany and plant sciences.
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February 28, 2024
How the SARS-CoV-2 virus acquires its spherical shape
UC Riverside-led study findings can help tackle other pathogenic coronaviruses
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February 27, 2024
Sniffing our way to better health
New scent-based therapy can delay disease; has implications also for agricultural production
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February 26, 2024
Vaping can increase susceptibility to infection by SARS-CoV-2
UC Riverside study urges e-cigarette users to be cautious about vaping in the era of COVID-19
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CNAS in the Media
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March 13, 2024
Undergraduate wins UC Graduate Deans’ Leadership and Research Award
Budding neuroscientist Erik Hakopian provided academic mentorship to UCR students
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March 05, 2024
UCR chemist Timothy Su joins 2024 class of Cottrell Scholars
Award supports innovative science research and education
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February 27, 2024
Gift to UCR results in new undergraduate fellowship
Aiden Wilkin will use the funds to continue working in the experimental LIGO group
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February 27, 2024
CNAS Science Lecture Series returns
UC Riverside’s College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences will present talks on climate change, cosmology, and sustainability as part of its annual Science Lecture Series.
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January 26, 2024
Physics research puts UCR on landscape of particle manipulation
Successful trapping of electrons could lead to new quantum computing architectures
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January 04, 2024
Reaching for the stars
A new astronomy course at UC Riverside offers undergraduates hands-on use of a telescope
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November 29, 2023
UCR wins grant promoting faculty diversity efforts
UC Riverside’s Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology department is one of the recipients of the University of California Advancing Faculty Diversity Program awards for the 2023-24 academic year.
The program provides support to increase UC’s faculty diversity efforts. Eight grants, totaling about $2.6 million, were awarded. The Advancing Faculty Diversity program focuses on two priority areas: recruitment and improving the campus climate and retention.
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November 29, 2023
2023 ‘Highly Cited’ list celebrates UCR faculty influence
Researchers rank in top 1% worldwide