According to a new UCR study from UCR's Sushmita Arumugam Amogh and Ysabel Giraldo in the Department of Entomology, fruit flies not only survive in hypergravity conditions, they manage to thrive and reproduce, too.
About the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, Scott Pegan in UCR's School of Medicine says, “If they weren’t on a cruise ship in a small container, then it wouldn’t have supported itself in spreading.”
Miguel Zavala, an associate professor of teaching at UC Riverside, talks about how academic teachings about the farmworkers movement may shift following allegations against labor rights icon Cesar Chavez.
UC Riverside microbiologist Michael Allen set gophers loose on a patch of land destroyed after the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, hoping they would kick up bacteria and fungi. It worked, and the benefits to the land can still be seen more than four decades later.
Sydney Glassman, a microbial ecologist at UCR, uncovers genetic secrets that allow some fungi to thrive in wildfire-ravaged areas when everything else dies off. These secrets could help burned areas recover.