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California’s longest-running free literary festival is now accessible to audiences worldwide
The grant will support programs within UCR’s new Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center, set to launch February 2021.
On Jan. 11, UC President Michael V. Drake announced a fall 2021 systemwide return to in-person instruction.
Jamal J. Myrick, African Student Programs director, discusses his educational journey, parenting, and more.
Dr. David Lo at the UC Riverside School of Medicine is an expert on vaccines
A hot, rocky “super Earth,” near one of the oldest stars in the galaxy has taken a team of planet-hunting scientists by surprise.
Scientists aren’t usually able to measure the size of gigantic planets, like Jupiter or Saturn, which are far from the stars they orbit. But a UC Riverside-led team has done it.
A UC Riverside-led study, funded by Merck, is set to find out
The University of California, Riverside, is leading a new effort to stop and reverse a worldwide decline in honeybees, which threatens food security and prices.
Experts on Black Lives Matter For fast access to experts, email news@ucr.edu Michelle C. Burroughs: director of community engagement and outreach for the Center for Healthy Communities. Burroughs is involved with the CHC’s engagement with the community focusing on the Black Lives Matter movement as well as social inequities. She...
UC Riverside scientists are betting an ancient solution will solve citrus growers’ biggest problem by breeding new fruits with natural resistance to a deadly tree disease. The hybrid fruits will ideally share the best of their parents’ attributes: the tastiness of the best citrus, and the resistance to Huanglongbing, or...
UC Riverside study examines molecular pathways that may instigate seizures in some multiple sclerosis patients
Resident advisors are creating ways to remain virtually connected while building a sense of community with first-year students in campus housing.
This week, more than 200 leaders from across the United States helped launch Census Legacies, a new community-building effort by the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside with partners in philanthropy, government, and community. The initiative aims to build more inclusive and equitable regions, using the same messengers and...
Vaccines to the rescue
The program works to make the holidays special for foster youth, despite the pandemic’s challenges.
A UC Riverside-led team is looking at tiny underground microorganisms for a way to prevent a huge problem — Huanglongbing, a disease with no cure that has decimated citrus orchards worldwide. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded the team $10 million to investigate the role of soil...
Open-source code developed at UC Riverside is free, versatile, and easy to use
Phase 2 study investigates efficacy of the drug ecopipam developed by Emalex Biosciences Inc.
New UC Riverside research shows the same proteins that enable human senses such as smell also allow certain fungi to sense something they can eat. The study offers new avenues for protecting people from starvation due to pathogenic fungus-induced food shortages. Understanding how fungi sense and digest plants can also...
