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Built in 1928, St. Mark’s Missionary Baptist Church is now surrounded by warehouses. (Aerial footage of Valley Truck Farms by Tamara Cedré and Adrian Metoyer III, 2024, courtesy of the artists and A People’s History of the I.E.)

Deliver Us From Overnight Delivery

As the warehousing and logistics industry becomes increasingly entrenched in Southern California’s Inland Empire, a bold public history and art project called Live From the Frontline seeks to document — and illuminate — supply-chain communities in flux.

By UCR News | October 10, 2025 | Social Science / Education
Firing neuron

New hope for MS

Scientists identify two compounds that could benefit people living with multiple sclerosis

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 8, 2025 | Health
Demyelination of neuron

How brain myelin damage could lead to seizures in MS

Study may explain why some people living with multiple sclerosis experience epileptic seizures

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 8, 2025 | Health
EV model

Smarter battery tech knows whether your EV will make it home

A new diagnostic metric combines charge data and environmental factors like traffic patterns, elevation changes, and ambient temperature to generate real-time predictions about whether an EV battery can complete a specific task.

By Jules Bernstein | October 7, 2025 | Science / Technology

California partnership aided COVID-19 response and health equity, report finds

STOP COVID-19 CA showed how researchers and communities can work together to tackle health disparities

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 3, 2025 | Health
campus

Wall Street Journal names UCR No. 24 public university

UC Riverside was ranked No. 24 among public universities, an increase from No. 45 this past year, and No. 18 for social mobility in the 2026 Wall Street Journal/College Pulse rankings. This year’s Journal rankings represented a notable increase for UCR, climbing 51 positions to No. 57 in the overall...

By John Warren | October 2, 2025 | University
leech reconstruction

Rare fossil reveals ancient leeches weren’t bloodsuckers

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures. “This is the only body fossil we’ve ever found of this entire group,” said Karma Nanglu...

By Jules Bernstein | October 1, 2025 | Science / Technology
A view of the Inland Empire for the top of Mt Rubidoux

Most Inland Empire residents say they are struggling

The surveys conducted by UCR’s Center for Community Solutions uncovered both troubling disparities in the Inland Empire and hopeful signs of community cohesion. While the levels of well-being fell below national averages, Inland residents were more likely than other Americans to feel a sense of belonging in their communities.

By David Danelski | September 30, 2025 | Social Science / Education, Health
Four book covers of works by Sandra Cisneros.

An Evening with celebrated Latinx writer Sandra Cisneros

On Wednesday, October 8, UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences will host “Palabra y Poder: An Evening with Sandra Cisneros.”

By Susan T. Mashiyama | September 30, 2025 | Arts / Culture
Water use on an Imperial Valley farm.

Farm conservation is an economical path to save river water

The most cost-effective way to conserve the dwindling waters of the Colorado River may not come from building new reservoirs, canals, or wells, but from changing how water is used on farms that consume most of it. That’s the conclusion of a comprehensive study by UC Riverside’s School of Public...

By David Danelski | September 29, 2025 | Science / Technology, Business
Tylenol box

Q & A: Autism and Tylenol

Katherine Meltzoff, a UCR associate professor, answers questions about what’s known about Tylenol and its association with autism. She also discusses the science on autism and vaccines, and the use of the drug leucovorin as a treatment.

By David Danelski | September 26, 2025 | Experts, Science / Technology, Social Science / Education
Alia Tuqan gives a talk to seniors

Healthy Aging Month: Embracing wellness at every age

UCR Health’s Dr. Alia Tuqan shares tips on staying healthy, active, and connected as we age

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 26, 2025 | Health
Students disassemble an instrument

New adaptive optics to support gravitational-wave discoveries

UCR-developed technology will allow scientists to peer deeper into the universe

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 26, 2025 | Science / Technology
Girl has concussion

Childhood concussions may trigger long-term brain changes

Researchers call for extended care and monitoring after pediatric head injuries

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 25, 2025 | Health
Glaciers

Carbon cycle flaw can plunge Earth into an ice age

How global warming may overcorrect into an ice age.

By Jules Bernstein | September 25, 2025 | Science / Technology
Icosahedron virus

How viruses build perfectly symmetrical protective shells

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, consistently results in highly symmetrical icosahedral structures. A genome is the complete set of genetic material in an organism. For...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 24, 2025 | Science / Technology
Nikolay Maslov in the Culver Screening Room

Keeping it reel

The curator of the only foreign and independent movie house in Riverside does watch shows on his laptop. But he’ll never give up watching film in person, and he doesn’t want you to, either.

By Jules Bernstein | September 24, 2025 | Arts / Culture
CCHFV

NIH grant supports research on dangerous emerging virus

International team to study immune defenses against Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 23, 2025 | Health

UCR is again No. 1 for social mobility in U.S. News rankings

U.S. News & World Report has again named UC Riverside the No. 1 university in the nation for social mobility. This is the seventh year that U.S. News has featured a breakout category for social mobility. UCR has been ranked No. 1 for five of those seven years; it was...

By John Warren | September 23, 2025 | University
Doctor looking into a gut

Gut punch: manipulating microbes to make you healthier

A $2 million grant to UC Riverside will explore how gut bacteria shape human health.

By Jules Bernstein | September 23, 2025 | Science / Technology
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