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California’s desert trees can’t take the heat: study

The Hill | March 28, 2023
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.
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How Southern California researchers are developing the food of the future

Orange County Register | March 25, 2023
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.
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Why do some love to exercise? It might be their microbiome.

National Geographic | March 24, 2023
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. 
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Ukraine is betting big on a bloody battle for a ruined town, but the gamble could break its ability to drive Russia back

MSN / Business Insider | March 22, 2023
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. 
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Tattoos Do Odd Things to the Immune System

The Atlantic | March 22, 2023
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.
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How Southern California researchers are developing the food of the future

Orange County Register | March 22, 2023
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. 
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Are Kids Collateral Damage In California Culture Wars?

LAist | March 21, 2023
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.
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Union-backed bill would make it harder for California industries to seek voter veto on new laws

East Bay Times | March 21, 2023
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.
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