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Researchers receive $1 million for project challenging long-standing paradigm in endocrinology

W. M. Keck Foundation award supports UC Riverside research aimed at showing membrane transporters guide flow of steroid hormones into cells

By Iqbal Pittalwala | February 5, 2018 | Health

$10 sensor reduces brewers’ natural gas use

$45,000 UC Riverside investment helps researchers win $1.5 million grant

By | February 5, 2018 | Science / Technology

Mapping the first family tree for tropical forests

An international team of researchers has unraveled the evolutionary history of the world’s tropical forests

By Sarah Nightingale | February 5, 2018 | Science / Technology

The science behind the scenes of ‘Basmati Blues’

UCR geneticist Norman Ellstrand lent his scientific expertise to a musical romantic comedy centered around genetically modified rice

By Sarah Nightingale | February 2, 2018 | Science / Technology

New UC Riverside research advances spintronics technology

Discoveries will help realize the promise of faster, energy-efficient spintronic computers and ultra-high-capacity data storage

By Dennis Meredith | February 1, 2018 | Science / Technology
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Research reveals why geography is central to product innovation

UCR researcher and colleagues show that businesses in states with confluence of research universities, venture capital, and government funding innovate at 16-times higher rate when demand increases

By | February 1, 2018 | Business
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UCR Joins Pen America in Reading Original Works of Resistance

For thousands, it was a week to march for civil and human rights. For the Department of Creative Writing, it was also a week to write and speak out for them. UCR writers were joined by allies Thursday night to celebrate free expression at #WritersResist. Event moderators quickly turned into...

By Madeline Adamo | January 31, 2018 | Arts / Culture

UCR Bioengineer Awarded Fulbright Grant

A University of California, Riverside scholar has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil for 2018-19. Valentine Vullev, a professor of bioengineering whose research areas include molecular photonics and biophotonics, will continue his research into bioinspired charge-transfer systems — particularly, bioinspired...

By | January 31, 2018 | Science / Technology

UCR bioengineer awarded Fulbright grant

RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — A University of California, Riverside scholar has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil for 2018-19. Valentine Vullev, a professor of bioengineering whose research areas include molecular photonics and biophotonics, will continue his research into bioinspired...

By Jessica Weber | January 31, 2018 | Science / Technology
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How to Avoid the Flu, and What to Do if You Get It

According to the CDC website, this year’s flu outbreak is considered “widespread” in 49 of the 50 states. CDC WEBSITE The 2017-18 flu season has become the most widespread since health officials began keeping track of the in the mid-2000s. According to the Washington Post, more than 12,000 people have...

By Ross French | January 29, 2018 | Health
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Project Moving Forward: A benchmark for student success

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - As a young teacher, Linda Navarrette traveled to South Africa with one assignment: help teachers develop critical thinking skills in their students. Little did she know that her efforts in those impoverished communities would change her life. The experience catapulted her career into education, cementing her support...

By | January 29, 2018 | Social Science / Education

What Makes Kids With Autism Less Social Than Their Typically Developing Peers?

Pick a hand, any hand. That familiar refrain, repeated in schoolyards the world over, is the basis of a simple guessing game that was recently adapted to study how and why kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) interact with the people around them. The game is the brainchild of Katherine...

By Tess Eyrich | January 29, 2018 | Health
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LIVE: Ron Athey’s collective memoir is guest-curated by Professor Jennifer Doyle

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - After a performance, Jennifer Doyle wants the audience to walk away with intense emotions. And the live performance she is guest-curating at The Broad contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, “Gifts of the Spirit: Prophecy, Automatism and Discernment” is not the exception. “I want people to have...

By | January 16, 2018 | Arts / Culture
UCR’s Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies was established seven years ago to enable high-level research on Korean American history and identity.

$370,000 gift to support UCR’s Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies

The donation comes from Myung Ki “Mike” Hong, a longtime advocate of the center and other initiatives related to Korean American affairs

By Tess Eyrich | January 16, 2018 | Social Science / Education
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How mantis shrimp pack the meanest punch

Multifaceted design of the mantis shrimp club is inspiring advanced composite materials for airplanes and football helmets

By Sarah Nightingale | January 16, 2018 | Science / Technology

UC Riverside research will help protect military software from hackers

Outdated military software and hardware is vulnerable to attack

By | January 15, 2018 | Science / Technology
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UCR’s first family makes new commitment to support students

Chancellor Kim Wilcox and his wife, Diane Del Buono, previously created the 13th Chancellor’s Research Fellowship

By John Warren | January 15, 2018 | University

Mysteries of nickel oxide – a promising spintronic material – are revealed

UC Riverside team determines how electron spins interact with crystal lattice in nickel oxide

By | January 15, 2018 | Science / Technology

Research suggests Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ produced rare shift in public opinion

Far from its intended effect, the ban generated public opposition to the policy, according to a study co-authored by UCR’s Loren Collingwood

By Tess Eyrich | January 12, 2018 | University
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Highlander venture fund makes its first investment

$250,000 supports San Diego-based NanoCellect Biomedical Inc.

By | January 12, 2018 | University
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