Barry Barish, a distinguished professor of physics at UC Riverside, has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Society for his exceptional contribution to science. Barish was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves,” along with American physicists Rainer Weiss and...
For your convenience, we have assembled all science course offerings for CNAS students for the Summer 2019. Please refer to the UCR Summer Sessions web page for the most up to date information and to enroll.
The University of North Dakota Alumni Review wrote a cover story on Dean Uhrich for their spring 2019 issue. Read the magazine ( https://indd.adobe.com/view/d93bb12b-ba48-407d-a84e-6054e870958c)
UCR soil scientist Samantha Ying has won a Fulbright Award to understand the environmental effects of the 2015 Fundão dam disaster, widely considered the worst in Brazilian history. The dam break killed 19 people and sent more than 14.5 billion gallons of toxic metals rushing toward the Atlantic Ocean. With soil rich in iron, gold...
In Memoriam Carlton Rowland Bovell UCR Professor Emeritus of Biology (1924 - 2019) Born and raised in New York City, Dr. Bovell served on the Italian front in World War II as a medic. He later received his bachelor's degree at Brooklyn College in 1949 and his master's degree there in 1952. He then moved...
UCR nematology professor Holly Bik is pioneering the use of microscopic worms as indicators of pollution and environmental change in marine environments. For this effort, Bik has won California Sea Grant’s 2019 Special Focus Award, one of only four such awards handed out in the entire state. The award provides her lab with $70,000 to...
Amir Haghverdi, an assistant cooperative extension specialist of irrigation and water management in the environmental sciences department, has been awarded a nearly $500,000 Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement New Investigator grant by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Assistant professor Hoori Ajami held a National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Multistate Research Project conference last week focused on Soil, Water, and Environmental Physics Across Scales. "This year's annual meeting was exceptional as we had many participants compared to previous years discussing latest developments in instrument design, remote sensing and modeling approaches to...
UC Riverside is celebrating the completion of the $150 million Multidisciplinary Research Building, or MRB, which will provide an innovative and collaborative approach to conducting research. Campus leaders held a dedication ceremony Friday for the five-story, 179,000-square-foot building that now stands as the largest and most sophisticated research facility on campus. Located on 2 acres...
CONGRATULATIONS to our CNAS Student Science Slam 2018 Winners: (1) Jessica Tingle: "Body size and shape matter for Sidewinding Snakes" (2) Alexandria Costantino: "Putting Dark Matter in the Spotlight" (3) Madison Hernandez: "Systematics save Stenopodainae (Hemiptera Reduviidae): How a glimpse of pyslogenetic relationships paves the way for novel studies of a cryptic and neglected group...
Graduate students of the PLPA Outreach Committee hosted the first-ever Plant Pathology Day on September 14 th, 2018 on the UCR campus The event, funded by an award from the American Phytopathological Society, brought together a total of 100 students from John W. North High School. Introductory talks from Dr. Alex Putman and Dr. Caroline...
Meet the newest faculty members in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences for 2018 Also see pictures from the 2018 New Faculty Reception. Barry Barrish Barry Barrish, distinguished professor of physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, earned his Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research effort...
Physicist Barry C. Barish, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of gravitational waves, will join the faculty of the University of California, Riverside, on Sept. 1. Barish, the Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Caltech, shared the Nobel Prize with fellow Caltech physicist Kip Thorne and MIT physicist Rainer Weiss...
Richard Schrock, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and UC Riverside alumnus, will join the faculty in UCR’s College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences in September 2018. He will be the inaugural George K. Helmkamp Founder’s Chair in Chemistry, named after one of the founding faculty members of UCR’s Department of Chemistry. Schrock, who graduated with a...
The 2019 Science Lecture Series will take place Wednesday evenings in April from 6 - 7 pm at the UCR University Theatre (Humanities 400). April 3: "Gravitational Waves: From Einstein to a New Science" Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. Barry Barish April 10: "Between Battles: From Civil War to Combating Plant Diseases" UCR Chair of...
In Memoriam Robert Stephen White UCR Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy 1920-2018 R. Stephen White, a Distinguished Professor of Physics (now Physics and Astronomy) at UC Riverside until he retired in 1990, passed away peacefully on April 8, 2018 in Santa Barbara after a series of illnesses. Steve joined the UCR physics faculty in...
In Memoriam Robert Stephen White UCR Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy (1920 - 2018) R. Stephen White, a Distinguished Professor of Physics (now Physics and Astronomy) at UC Riverside until he retired in 1990, passed away peacefully on April 8, 2018 in Santa Barbara after a series of illnesses. Steve joined the UCR physics...
James Sims, 1937-2018 Professor James J. (Jim) Sims, Emeritus, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology died peacefully at home on March 11, 2018 after a four-year battle with metastatic prostate cancer. Born in Winters, California, Prof. Sims was the first of four sons born to Joe and Eve Sims. He graduated from Tempe Union High...
In Memoriam James J. Sims UCR Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Plant Pathology Professor James J. (Jim) Sims, Emeritus, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology died peacefully at home on March 11, 2018 after a four-year battle with metastatic prostate cancer. Born in Winters, California, Prof. Sims was the first of four sons born to...
William Walton and Alec Gerry from the CNAS Entomology Department were recently announced as winners of the PBESA 2018 awards. William Walton Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2018 Professor of Entomology and Vice Chair Alec Gerry Medical, Urban and Veterinary Entomology Award, 2018 Cooperative Extension Specialist and Professor of Entomology According to the Pacific Branch...
