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Sitting a lot is bad even for young, active people

Futurity | December 5, 2024
Ryan Bruellman, a doctoral candidate in UC Riverside’s genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics department, led a new study that reveals prolonged sitting significantly harms even young, active adults, increasing the risk of heart disease and obesity. It also found current federal exercise guidelines are insufficient to offset sitting's negative effects. 
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UCR’s African Student Program Center Receives the 2024 Center of the Year Award by the ABCC

Black Voice News | December 3, 2024
This year the University of California, Riverside’s African Student Program Center (ASP) was awarded Center of the Year. ASP Director Jamal Myrick, Ed.D, shared that this marks the first time UCR’s ASP  has received the award since the organization was established in 1972.
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How your skin tone could affect your meds

The Academic Minute | December 3, 2024
Sophie Zaaijer, scientific consultant and researcher at UCR, explores how our skin tone could affect the medications we take.
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Studying the molecular mechanisms important for the parasite that causes malaria

People Behind the Science Podcast | December 2, 2024
Karine Le Roch discusses the internship that shaped her path to a career in science and discovering a new drug that targets malaria-causing parasites in this podcast.
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A Native American perspective of Thanksgiving

KQED | November 28, 2024
Gerald Clarke, Jr., UCR ethnic studies professor and member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians talks about Thanksgiving, native history, and the incoming US president.
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Mother-son team’s fossil find shows how nematodes—and all arthropods—arose

Science Magazine | November 19, 2024
Paleontologist Ian Hughes and his mother, University of California, Riverside, paleoecologist Mary Droser, are part of a small team that has uncovered wormlike fossils in South Australia that provide a key clue to explaining how a large group of animals called ecdysozoans became so diverse. 
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How a team of gophers restored Mount St. Helens after its catastrophic eruption with less than a day of digging

Smithsonian Magazine | November 14, 2024
After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities left a remarkably enduring impact, according to study by UCR microbiologists Michael Allen and Emma Aronson, and University of Connecticut mycologist Mia Maltz, who was a postdoctoral scholar in Aronson’s lab at UCR when the study began.
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Frogs kick back against lethal fungus

Knowable Magazine | November 6, 2024
Scientists are seeing signs of resistance to infections that have been wiping out the world’s amphibian populations. UCR mycologist Jason Stajich, coauthor of a recent report on the virus in Current Biology, weighs in on the latest efforts to fight the infections.
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