Last week, UCR’s Healthy Campus group released tips for staying physically and mentally healthy while social distancing and working from home. But for many faculty and staff members with young children, a number of these recommendations might seem difficult — if not impossible — to follow. Being forced indoors with...

The daily 1 p.m. Zoom call has become a lifeline for a team of UC Riverside students and their project scientist. Sometimes the call focuses on data, driven by the greenhouse emissions research they are conducting for Francesca Hopkins, assistant professor of climate change and sustainability. Other times, they talk...

Research suggests more effort is needed to help college men apply the concept of sexual consent to their everyday lives

The program’s faculty members and students offer advice for transitioning to online classes due to coronavirus

Brandon Brown is an associate professor in the Center for Healthy Communities in the School of Medicine

Phytochrome foci have different behaviors at different temperatures and types of light

Scientists call for more research to understand whether water treatment methods kill the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic

Undergraduate Admissions has shifted to an online, weeklong program for prospective, admitted, and transfer students.

The interdepartmental group has received dozens of requests for support since campus closure.

Sociologist Richard M. Carpiano weighs in on some of the less obvious ways COVID-19 could restructure life as we know it

Air quality improvements lead to unique atmospheric chemical behavior

People around the world are wondering how long COVID-restrictions have to last in order to curtail the pandemic. A research study on 36 countries and 50 U.S. states has found that aggressive intervention to contain COVID-19 must be maintained for at least 44 days. The study is co-authored by Professor...

UC Riverside researchers’ mouse studies also show how a common nutrient can help babies of alcoholic moms

The University of California, Riverside, today, March 30, 2020, announced that Nicole Powell, head coach at Grand Canyon University, has been named head women’s basketball coach for the Highlanders. Powell, a WNBA All-Star and Championship winning player, three-time All-American and two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year, and stellar recruiter, joins...

Political scientist Kim Yi Dionne explains why responses to COVID-19 reveal a failure to learn from history

Annie Ditta’s graduate school training was in fixation. As she says, “I got fixated on fixation.” Her familiarity with fixation is useful as instructors at the University of California, Riverside, must reinvent how they teach within the space of two weeks. On March 14, UCR announced instruction for spring quarter...

Students looking for assistance and resources can connect through Zoom chats every Tuesday and Thursday.

With directives to suspend in-person classes in response to COVID-19, UCR moves to campus wide online instruction

State and federal officials are asking Americans to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic. So is it possible to find an entertaining activity that provides a small respite from our larger societal worries? Derek Burrill, associate professor of media and cultural studies at UC Riverside, has created a list of...

A wormlike creature that lived more than 555 million years ago is the earliest bilaterian