Tesa Madsen-Hepp, a UCR botanist and Ph.D. student, led research offering evidence that desert ecosystems, long perceived as the most resilient to climate change, may be hitting their limits.
The OC Register highlights the work that UCR genetics professor Julia Bailey-Serres is doing with the Center for Plant Cell Biology to make staple foods more resilient to climate change.
Theodore Garland, Jr., a UCR evolutionary biologist, has shown in an ongoing experiment launched in 1993 that some variability in motivation or ability to do hard exercise is related to genetics.
UCR's Center for Plant Cell Biology, directed by Professor Julia Bailey-Serres, is leading research into such topics as how to increase yields of crops like rice and tomatoes, and how to make them more resistant to pests.
Paul D'Anieri, a UCR political science professor and the author of "Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War," says the battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut will ultimately look like a big miscalculation either for the Ukranians or the Russians.
When a tattoo is stamped onto skin, the body considers it an assault. The skin is the immune system’s “first barrier,” and is heavily stocked with fast-acting defensive cells that can leap into action when it’s breached, says Juliet Morrison, a virologist at UC Riverside.
Black students are more often the target of racial hostility than any other group of students, according to a joint report by the UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education and Access and the Civic Engagement Research Group at UC Riverside.
Shaun Bowler, dean of the graduate division in UCR's political science department and an expert on ballot measures, believes voters are pretty savvy even when bombarded with expensive campaign ads. Therefore, he questions the need for a ballot measure that would make it harder to gather referendum signatures.
