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Coastal reef survey
Chemical warfare on the seafloor
Study shows how turf algae undermine kelp forest recovery
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hummingbird at flower
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.
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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.
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solar panel installation
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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A Message from 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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Barry Barish
Physicist elected member of American Philosophical Society
Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society
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School of Medicine Education Building I
School of Medicine server room at the heart of UCR research
High-powered computers relocated to SOM Ed 1 will benefit research across campus
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Graph related to Casimir force
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
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Chemistry PhD students
Chemistry Ph.D. students to represent UCR at Nobel Laureate meeting 
Ashley Pimentel and Ting Zhao encourage fellow students to pursue opportunities.
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