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UC Riverside receives seven grants totaling $7M for graduate education
GAANN fellowships from the Department of Education will support students pursuing research in areas of national need
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Tropical cream
How your skin tone could affect your meds
Perspective paper offers insights into impact of skin pigmentation on drug efficacy and safety
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plastic bottles
Airborne plastic chemical levels shock researchers
Southern Californians are chronically being exposed to toxic airborne chemicals called plasticizers, including one that’s been banned from children’s items and beauty products. 
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Scientists design new drug to fight malaria
In 2022, nearly 619,000 global deaths due to malaria were caused by Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent, prevalent, and deadly human malaria parasite. For decades, the parasite’s resistance to all antimalarial drugs has posed a big challenge for researchers working to stop the spread of the disease.
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A Message from Interim Dean Peter Atkinson

On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students from the College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside, I welcome you to our college and campus.

 

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UCR team to participate in national undergraduate research program
Five-month program focuses on developing participants’ communication and advocacy skills
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DOE renewal grant funds student research
Researchers will work at Brookhaven National Laboratory to uncover internal structure of protons
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UCR physicists receive DOE grants as early career scientists
Miguel Arratia and Shawn Westerdale have each been awarded $875,000 over five years
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LIGO Observatories
NSF funds instrumentation in lab linked to LIGO research
Physicist Jon Richardson is grant’s principal investigator
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