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May 21, 2025 | 3-6 PM | Rivera Lawn

The ARA Faculty Mentoring Program’s 2025 Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Beronda Montgomery

ARA Faculty Mentoring Program’s 2025 Distinguished Speaker Presentation

Envisioning our future: How to enhance a culture of mentoring and equity. How universities acknowledge faculty mentoring faculty efforts.
Speaker: Dr. Beronda Montgomery
May 21, 2025 | 3:30-4:30pm

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May 19-23, 2025

CNAS Summer Sessions for BPSC/BCH 183 Plant Biochemistry & Pharmacology of Plant Metabolites

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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

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.

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 06, 2025

Discovery: a better, more targeted termite terminator

UC Riverside researchers find a chemical able to kill about 95 percent of a drywood termite colony without off-target effects on mammals.

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May 20, 2025

At the heart of conservation

Ellie Armstrong is a scientist by training, a dog photographer by hobby, and a rescuer by nature. By day, she is an evolutionary biologist at UC Riverside building genomic tools to trace the ancestry of species facing extinction. In her...

May 08, 2025

A tale of Tinder wins the day at the 10th annual UC Grad Slam

Angeliz Vargas Casillas from UC Riverside, who won third prize for her talk on using math to model keloid scar expansion, reflected, “It really made me think about where I'm going with my research. Where can I take it? What...

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May 05, 2025

A One-Stop Shop for Good Advice: (Re)Introducing the Pre-Professional Advising Center

UC Riverside alumna Gabriella Moussa has a sterling piece of advice about the Pre-Professional Advising Center (PPAC) and the services it provides. “To any student looking to use the office’s resources, but who may be hesitant for whatever reason: Let...

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April 30, 2025

The Dynamic Genome Project at UC Riverside

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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

Chemistry Ph.D. students to represent UCR at Nobel Laureate meeting

Ashley Pimentel and Ting Zhao encourage fellow students to pursue opportunities.

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

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May 11, 2025

How to Get the Most Juice From Your Lemons (Without a Fancy Gadget)

MARTHA STEWART - Whether you are baking, cooking, or mixing up a cocktail, knowing how to juice a lemon properly can make a big difference. The humble yellow fruit might not seem complicated, but factors like temperature, storage, variety, and...

April 29, 2025

National Academy of Sciences elects members and international members

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES - The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected today bring the total number of...

April 29, 2025

Report details the widespread impacts of dust on California

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY - Researchers from several University of California campuses have collaborated to create a report on dust in California, a characteristic that defines the desert climate zone that encompasses most of the state. The regions where dust...

April 29, 2025

Scientists just confirmed a 67-year-old hypothesis about Vitamin B1

SCIENCEALERT - You often need a lot of patience to be a scientist, and that's certainly been the case for researchers who have now found solid evidence for a hypothesis around vitamin B1 (or thiamine) that was first put forward...

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May 08, 2025

UC Riverside Neuroscience Major, Sreenidhi Surineni, Named 2025 Goldwater Scholar

Sreenidhi Surineni, a neuroscience major with a minor in philosophy in UC Riverside’s College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS), has been named a 2025 Goldwater Scholar with the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, one of...