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...

UCR has garnered 72 nd place in life sciences and 85 th in physical sciences, in the 2013-14 London Times Higher Education World University Rankings of research universities around the globe. Released October 2, the annual study evaluates “world-class universities across all of their core missions—teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook,” according to its...

UC Riverside research has large implications for controlling insect-born diseases worldwide RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Insects are repelled by N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide, also known as DEET. But exactly which olfactory receptors insects use to sense DEET has eluded scientists for long. Now researchers at the University of California, Riverside have identified these DEET-detecting olfactory receptors that cause the...

UC Riverside's Mark Hoddle helps Canadian research team win the Hult Prize On Sept. 23, the Clinton Global Initiative awarded the Hult Prize, worth $1 million, to a team of student entrepreneurs at McGill University, Canada. Mark Hoddle, the director of the Center for Invasive Species Research at the University of California, Riverside, served as...

UC Riverside-French team simulates deep earthquakes in the laboratory, confirming phase transition of olivine is trigger for earthquakes occurring at depths below 400 kilometers. More than 20 years ago, geologist Harry Green, now a distinguished professor of the graduate division at the University of California, Riverside, and colleagues discovered a high-pressure failure mechanism that they...

UC Riverside astronomers begin large survey of distant galaxies using new instrument. Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside have received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a very large new survey of galaxies using a new instrument — MOSFIRE — on the Keck I telescope at the summit of Mauna...

The 2013 Summer Research In Science and Engineering (RISE) Symposium, held at the University of California, Riverside campus on Tuesday, Aug. 27, showcased some of the best undergraduate research being done at the university in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The symposium marked the end of a ten-week research and academic enrichment...

The 2013 awards will be presented at the society’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas, in November. Richard Stouthamer, a professor of entomology, was honored with the Recognition Award in Entomology, which recognizes entomologists who are making significant contributions to agriculture. The award is sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection. Stouthamer is the author of more than...