October 01, 2025
Rare fossil reveals ancient leeches weren’t bloodsuckers
A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures.
September 26, 2025
New adaptive optics to support gravitational-wave discoveries
UCR-developed technology will allow scientists to peer deeper into the universe
September 25, 2025
Carbon cycle flaw can plunge Earth into an ice age
How global warming may overcorrect into an ice age.
September 24, 2025
How viruses build perfectly symmetrical protective shells
Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, consistently results in highly symmetrical icosahedral structures.
September 23, 2025
Gut punch: manipulating microbes to make you healthier
A $2 million grant to UC Riverside will explore how gut bacteria shape human health.
September 16, 2025
UCR physicist co-leads interdisciplinary center to enhance understanding of the universe
Research team includes astrophysicists, computer scientists, artists, and philosophers from UC Riverside, USC, and Carnegie Observatories
September 08, 2025
Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness
Scientists say the warming climate is triggering chemical reactions that leach toxic metals into once-pristine Arctic waters, degrading fish habitat, water quality, and life for local people.
August 25, 2025
How to build larger, more reliable quantum computers
UC Riverside scientists link multiple quantum chips to grow quantum systems
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October 02, 2025
Graduate students win national honors for cockroach research
Rattanan Chungsawat and Emily Ta earn Entomological Society of America awards
August 27, 2025
UCR professor wins rare soil science medal
Soil Science Society of America recognizes William Jury
August 14, 2025
UCR professor studying tiny, ant-killing wasps earns big honor
Entomological Society of America elects John Heraty as fellow
July 17, 2025
Epilepsy research rewarded with fellowship and grant
Viji Santhakumar’s lab is the recipient of both
July 16, 2025
NASA grant to allow in-depth study of cosmic microwave background
Physicist Steve Choi will analyze satellite data to focus on reionization, one of the least understood epochs in cosmic history
July 14, 2025
Early-career faculty win fellowships
Eight UC Riverside assistant professors, whose research spans innovations in computer science to discoveries in Latin American history, have been awarded competitive 2025–26 Hellman Fellowships that support promising early-career faculty on the path to tenure.
June 24, 2025
Highlights from UCR’s 71st Commencement
UC Riverside concluded its 71st Commencement season on June 17, with UCR’s Class of 2025 walking at eight discipline- or degree-based ceremonies.
Approximately 6,100 graduates, 35,000 in-person guests, 32,000 online streamers, and about 375 volunteer staff participated in the celebrations, which started on June 6.
Highlanders belonging to specific groups also took part in additional micro celebrations organized by various student resources like the University Honors Cording, and year-end celebrations hosted by UCR’s ethnic and gender centers.
June 11, 2025
Physicist recognized for contributions to cosmic ray physics
Barry Barish will receive the IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award in July
