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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UCR graduate student Yu-Chi Lee led a team that found a slowing ocean current could keep Arctic temperatures 2° C (3.6° F) cooler than they would otherwise likely be in 2100. That sounds encouraging – until you realize that under their calculations the region warms by a shocking 8° C (14.4° F) instead of a catastrophic 10° C (18° F).