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May 22, 2025
Chemical warfare on the seafloor
Study shows how turf algae undermine kelp forest recovery

May 15, 2025
Half a century of wild: saving Box Springs Mountain Park
Riverside County celebrates the 50th year of Box Springs Mountain Park, an ecological preserve saved from development by community effort.

May 08, 2025
Mathematizing keloid scars gets UCR 3rd at UC Grad Slam
On April 29, UC Riverside doctoral candidate Angeliz Vargas Casillas placed third in the 2025 UC Grad Slam, an annual competition challenging graduate students from the 10 UC campuses to effectively pitch their years-long Ph.D. research ... within three minutes ... using one single presentation slide. Gulp.

May 08, 2025
Turning light into usable energy
A grant from the U.S. Department of Defense will allow UCR researchers to address one of physics' most complex mysteries - the process by which light transfers energy through materials.
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May 09, 2025
Physicist elected member of American Philosophical Society
Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society

April 30, 2025
School of Medicine server room at the heart of UCR research
High-powered computers relocated to SOM Ed 1 will benefit research across campus

April 23, 2025
UCR physicist’s work featured in popular quantum course
Umar Mohideen’s image from Casimir effect experiment will appear in Spanish version of a show on quantum mechanics

April 23, 2025
Chemistry Ph.D. students to represent UCR at Nobel Laureate meeting
Ashley Pimentel and Ting Zhao encourage fellow students to pursue opportunities.