Dean Marylynn V. Yates issued the following announcement today: Dear Colleagues, I am once again saddened to announce the passing of one of our pioneering faculty members. George K. Helmkamp, who was the second person hired in chemistry in 1953, died March 28, 2015, at the age of 94. Professor Helmkamp received his B.A. from...
Seven CNAS students have won Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFs) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) based on their demonstrated potential for significant achievements in science and engineering. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at...
Professor Emeritus Wilbur (Bill) W. Mayhew, a founding member of the University of California, Riverside campus in 1954, died on Sept. 19, 2014. Mayhew served as an active professor in the Department of Zoology until his retirement in1989. Prior to that, Mayhew was a decorated veteran of World War II who completed his military service...
The Department of Chemistry in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside is ranked 47th in the world, according to the recently published 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which measures the research impact of more than 1,200 universities around the world. When compared with other U.S. universities UCR ranks 27th overall...
The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside welcomes 15 new faculty to its ranks during the 2014-15 academic year. Nicolas Barth Assistant Professor of Geology Department of Earth Sciences Degree Ph.D., University of Otago, New Zealand, Geology Research Barth's research focuses on improving our understanding of active faults and their effects on...
Charles Darwin was an amateur. Like most of the people practicing science at the time, Darwin had no official position, no job, no doctorate, and no government grants. He did his work on his own time, funded by his private income. It would seem impossible for such an amateur to exist today, or to make...
In 2006, geneticists at the University of California, Riverside made a discovery that helped develop flood-tolerant rice, benefiting rice farmers in flood-prone countries. The lab of Julia Bailey-Serres, a professor of genetics, was involved in the identification of SUB1A, a gene that enables rice to survive complete submergence. SUB1A is not present in all rice...
Ten CNAS Graduate Students Win Graduate Research Fellowships from NSF Ten of the eighteen graduate students at UC Riverside who received Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFs) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) this year are in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. The highly competitive fellowships are awarded to individuals early in their graduate careers...
UCR physicists Robert Clare and Stephen Wimpenny, along with graduate students Jesse Heilman, Elizabeth Kennedy and Amithabh Shrinivas, have been involved in a significant upgrade of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at CERNs Large Hadron Collider. The CMS is a large particle-capturing detector. UCR is a founding member of the CMS experiment. Over the...
Chemistry Senior Wins National Award Mary Nguyen receives a Eli Lilly/WCC Travel Award from the American Chemical Society. Mary Nguyen, a senior in chemistry and a CNAS Science Ambassador, has won a national Eli Lilly/WCC Travel Award. This highly competitive award – only nine are awarded each year—supported her travel to the American Chemical Society’s...
UC Riverside Develops a Unique Ecological Institute Institute will be led by the holder of the new W.W. Mayhew Endowed Chair in GeoEcology Global climate and environmental change, and the resulting degradation of ecosystems, pose some of the most serious issues facing society today. While there is consensus among scientists that such change is happening...
Chemistry Graduate Student Receives 2013 SACNAS Award Consuelo Beecher, a UCR Chemistry graduate student working with Professor Cindy Larive, has received a 2013 Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Student Presentation Award. She was honored for her presentation, “Profiling Enoxaparin SEC Fractions by Probing for 3-O-Sulfo Oligosaccharides Using [1H...
Funding from USAID Will Help Increase Crop Yield in Several African Countries Cowpea is a protein-rich legume crop that plays a key role in sustaining food security for people and their livestock. Immensely important in many parts of the world, particularly drought-prone regions, it plays a central role in the diet and economy of hundreds...
Lead editor Kurt Schwabe of UC Riverside says drought must receive the attention a natural disaster deserves Mention of natural disasters usually brings to mind vivid images of shattered concrete and piles of rubbish strewn across the landscape — the result of violent hurricanes, massive earthquakes, or rampaging tornadoes. From an economic standpoint, however, the...
UC Riverside-led study points to an ancient oxygen-free and hydrogen sulfide-rich ocean that may foreshadow our future Oxygen in the atmosphere and ocean rose dramatically about 600 million years ago, coinciding with the first proliferation of animal life. Since then, numerous short-lived biotic events — typically marked by significant climatic perturbations — took place when...
University of California, Riverside astronomers Bahram Mobasher and Naveen Reddy are members of a team that has discovered the most distant galaxy ever found. The galaxy is seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about 5 percent of its current age of 13.8 billion years...
Two scientists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson — the particle that gives mass to matter.UCR scientists played a significant role in advancing the theory and in discovering the Higgs boson. Gail Hanson, Stephen Wimpenny, Ernest Ma, Robert...
UC Riverside's Wilfred Elders recently convened an international geothermal workshop to promote a collaborative initiative to develop higher enthalpy geothermal systems in the United States Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Riverside, convened the “International Geothermal Workshop” in Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino Mountains, Oct. 13-16, to discuss...
During the last year, nine assistant professors have joined the CNAS faculty. Their names and departments accompany their photos, below. Emma Aronson Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology & Microbiology Christopher Clark Assistant Professor of Biology Jeffrey Diez Assistant Professor of Botany & Plant Sciences Nathaniel Gabor Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy W. Hill Harman...
The University of California, Riverside’s Anandasankar Ray was recognized yesterday (Oct. 8) as the Innovation Honoree of the Month by the City of Riverside. Ray, an associate professor of entomology, received the award from Mayor Rusty Bailey. In 2010, with help from UC Riverside’s Office of Technology Commercialization and the Innovation Economy Corporation, Ray founded...
