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Annual Riverside Insect Fair

6th Annual Riverside Insect Fair: April 25, 10 am - 4 pm

Get bugged out at the 6 th Annual Riverside Insect Fair! The City of Riverside Community and Economic Development Department’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Division and the UC Riverside Entomology Graduate Student Association will host the 6 th Annual Riverside Insect Fair to give the community the opportunity to learn how insects impact our lives...
By CNAS Communications |
Dr. Laura Sales, UCR

NSF CAREER Award supports astronomer's quest to further understand the universe

Laura Sales first fell in love with astronomy when she was in middle school in Argentina, her country of birth. Today, she is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside and the recipient of the National Science Foundation's prestigious Faculty Early Career Development ( CAREER ) Award, one of the most coveted...
By Eureka Alert | AAAS |
Bee flying onto flower at Botanic Gardens (c) UCR / Stan Lim

California Native Plant Society announces 2019-2020 Education Grant Recipients

[Christopher Cosma, graduate student in the UCR Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) department received a California Native Plant Society award for his work on linking plant-plant interactions with plant-pollinator interactions in California’s Colorado Desert.] Each year, CNPS awards education grants to student researchers focused on California native plants. We were amazed at the number...
By California Native Plant Society |
Dr. Janet Franklin field research

Top UK and US experts publish journal issue on climate resilience

In 2018, top scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom gathered in Washington, D.C. to talk about how climate change can affect terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems, often in interaction with other factors. Janet Franklin , a distinguished professor of botany and plant sciences at the University of California, Riverside co-organized the forum...
By Holly Ober | Inside UCR |
ChemStor app, chemistry lab

Avoid Improperly Mixing Chemicals in the Lab With This New App

Improperly mixed chemicals cause a shocking number of fires, explosions, and injuries in laboratories, businesses, and homes each year. A new open source computer program called ChemStor developed by engineers at the University of California, Riverside , can prevent these dangerous situations by telling users if it is unsafe to mix certain chemicals. The Centers...
By Lab Manager |
Electron Ion Collider

UC Riverside physicists to set up experiments at new nuclear physics facility

UCR physicists Kenneth Barish, Richard Seto, and Miguel Arratia will work with a consortium of UC campuses and national labs. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, as the site for Electron Ion Collider, or EIC, a planned major new nuclear physics research facility...
By Iqbal Pittalwala | Inside UCR |
Outer space sunrise / earth

Are We Alone Lecture Series 2020 at the UCR Palm Desert Center

Are We Alone Lecture Series 2020: The search for alien life will be among the discussion topics of a four-part lecture series at UC Riverside's Palm Desert campus featuring speakers from NASA and UCR's Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center. Timothy Lyons, distinguished professor of biogeochemistry in UCR's Department of Earth Sciences and director of the Alternative...
By UCR Palm Desert Center |
Illustration of the EGS77 galaxy group shows the galaxies surrounded by overlapping bubbles of hydrogen ionized by ultraviolet light from their stars. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

Astronomers find farthest galaxy group identified to date

Bahram Mobasher , a professor of observational astronomy at UC Riverside, is a member of an international team of astronomers that found the farthest galaxy group identified to date. Called EGS77, the group of three galaxies dates to a time when the universe was only 680 million years old. While more distant galaxies have been...
By Iqbal Pittalwala | Inside UCR |
Muffins for Marsupials fundraiser

‘Muffins for Marsupials’ fundraiser to help Australia

Two UC Riverside paleontology graduate students have organized a two-week bake sale to support the communities, wildlife, and their colleagues affected by the wildfires in Australia. Phillip Boan, 24, and Rachel Surprenant, 23, both paleontology master’s students in the UCR Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences , with support from classmates, will be selling baked...
By Sandra Baltasar Martinez | Inside UCR |
Science Communication / pixabay.com

Faculty, researchers invited to science communication training event

University Communications will present a workshop with world-leading research communicator Dennis Meredith on Wednesday, Jan. 22, from 1-4 p.m. Refreshments will be served. “Communicating Science” is open to faculty, researchers, graduate students, and staff. Meredith will instruct faculty members and grad students on how to effectively explain their research to audiences important to their success...
By John Warren | Inside UCR / Announcements |
Scientists in Lab (c) UCR

Getting scientists to talk ethics

The Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside, and the Center for Open Science, or COS, today announced the promising results of a research ethics training intervention created to strengthen ethics dialogue among STEM lab members. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Science Foundation-funded study...
By Tess Eyrich | Inside UCR |
In memoriam / Sunset at Sycamore Canyon, Riverside (c) Ilse Ungeheuer

In Memory of Christopher Robertson

In Memoriam Christopher A. Robertson UCR Professor Emeritus of Statistics (1942 - 2019) Christopher Robertson, a professor emeritus of statistics who taught at UC Riverside for over three decades, passed away June 15. He was 77. Robertson was born in London, England and received his bachelor of arts in mathematics from Trinity College, University of...
Happy New Year from CNAS

CNAS Dean's Newsletter Winter 2019/2020

Dear CNAS Community, The stories shared in this newsletter reflect some of the amazing achievements that the CNAS community accomplished in 2019. Having our faculty ranked among the world's most influential scholars is a testament to our commitment to research and our students. Honors from the White House highlights our faculty and campus on the...
By CNAS Dean Kathryn Uhrich |
Project UCR Plant Growth greenhouse (c) UCR

New greenhouse facility allows for expanded research space

A project underway on the east side of the UC Riverside campus will offer high-tech greenhouse space where researchers from different disciplines can work together in a climate-controlled environment. The Plant Growth Environments Facility is the first new greenhouse research building built on campus in close to 40 years, said Rowan Reid, project manager for...
By Imran Ghori |Inside UCR |
Painted Lady butterfly

2019-20 Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant awards

The 2019-20 Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant awards will help 18 students from seven UC campuses conduct field studies at NRS reserves. These are the four UCR grant recipients: UC Riverside CNAS grant recipients 2019-2020: Matthew Green Sierra Nevada Aquatics Research Lab Landscape Biodiversity in Alpine Lake-Stream Networks UC Riverside 2019-2020 Elijah Hall White Mountain...
By Kathleen Wong | UC Natural Reserve System |
Dr. Keith Knapp

In Memory of Keith Knapp

In Memoriam Keith Knapp UCR Professor Emeritus of Resource Economics in the Department of Environmental Science (1950 - 2019) Keith passed away on November 27th, 2019, surrounded by his family and friends, in Riverside, California. Born in Wichita, Kansas, on July 28th, 1950, Keith was the first son of William H. and Jane L. Knapp...
David Reznick (c) UCR

UCR biologist receives Humboldt Research Award

David Reznick, a distinguished professor of biology at UC Riverside, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. The foundation recognizes top scientists and scholars from around the world at different stages in their careers. Award winners are invited to conduct research of their choice in Germany in...
By Imran Ghori | Inside UCR |
Yanou Cui (c) UCR

Probing boosted dark matter

Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory joined with its international partners to break ground on a new beamline that will help scientists learn more about ghostly particles called neutrinos. The beamline is part of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility which will house the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment , or DUNE, an...
By Iqbal Pittalwala |

A letter from CNAS Dean Kathryn Uhrich

Dear CNAS Faculty and Staff, Over the weekend, I had a chance to reflect on how grateful I am to be surrounded by colleagues who are so dedicated in supporting the academic success of our students and the innovative research led by our faculty. There is so much to be thankful for: UC Riverside was...
By Dean Kathryn Uhrich |
Dr. Isgouhi Kaloshian (c) UCR

UC Riverside scientist Isgouhi Kaloshian joins 2019 class of AAAS fellows

In recognition of her pioneering work on plants’ immunity to pests, Isgouhi Kaloshian , chair of the Department of Nematology, has been elected as a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science , or AAAS. Kaloshian’s work focuses on plants’ innate ability to protect themselves from two types of pests: nematodes, which...
By Jules Bernstein | Inside UCR |
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