October 29, 2025
'Roll Out’ to UCR Homecoming 2025
Lock in this November with UC Riverside’s Homecoming 2025. The most anticipated celebration is an on-campus concert featuring 2000s hip-hop icon Ludacris. (Yup, THAT Ludacris!) Select campus groups will also host a barbecue, brunch, cookout, family weekend, and more. Here are all the ways you can join in the fun.
October 23, 2025
Hidden toxins in e-cigarette fluids may harm lung cells
UC Riverside research reveals that common vaping ingredient can form chemicals that damage airway tissue even at low levels
October 22, 2025
Being fit may help the body beat dehydration
UC Riverside mouse study highlights why fitness may matter more in a warming, drier world
October 21, 2025
Dusty air is rewriting your lung microbiome
Genetic or bacterial diseases have previously been shown to have an effect on lung microbes. However, a UC Riverside discovery marks the first time scientists have observed such changes from environmental exposure rather than disease.
October 01, 2025
Rare fossil reveals ancient leeches weren’t bloodsuckers
A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures.
September 26, 2025
New adaptive optics to support gravitational-wave discoveries
UCR-developed technology will allow scientists to peer deeper into the universe
September 25, 2025
Carbon cycle flaw can plunge Earth into an ice age
How global warming may overcorrect into an ice age.
September 24, 2025
How viruses build perfectly symmetrical protective shells
Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, consistently results in highly symmetrical icosahedral structures.
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October 29, 2025
UCR scientist recognized by American Federation for Aging Research
Huimin Zhang has received AFAR’s Grant for Junior Faculty
October 10, 2025
UCR physicist pushes for NASA & NSF funding in Washington, D.C.
On Save NASA Science Day of Action, Steve Choi joined hundreds of scientists and advocates from across the country
October 02, 2025
Graduate students win national honors for cockroach research
Rattanan Chungsawat and Emily Ta earn Entomological Society of America awards
August 27, 2025
UCR professor wins rare soil science medal
Soil Science Society of America recognizes William Jury
August 14, 2025
UCR professor studying tiny, ant-killing wasps earns big honor
Entomological Society of America elects John Heraty as fellow
July 17, 2025
Epilepsy research rewarded with fellowship and grant
Viji Santhakumar’s lab is the recipient of both
July 16, 2025
NASA grant to allow in-depth study of cosmic microwave background
Physicist Steve Choi will analyze satellite data to focus on reionization, one of the least understood epochs in cosmic history
July 14, 2025
Early-career faculty win fellowships
Eight UC Riverside assistant professors, whose research spans innovations in computer science to discoveries in Latin American history, have been awarded competitive 2025–26 Hellman Fellowships that support promising early-career faculty on the path to tenure.
