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UCR School of Business awarded re-accreditation by distinguished AACSB international

The UCR School of Business is the premier public business research institution in Inland Southern California and provides insights and resources that impact the development of the region

By Holly Ober | August 8, 2018 | Business
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Improved oxidation is water wizardry against drought

Research finds ways to remove more of the tricky substances that can squeak through water treatment

By Holly Ober | August 8, 2018 | Science / Technology
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Top-performing soil microbes could be key to sustainable agriculture

UCR research will help agronomists breed plants that attract their own growth-promoting microbes

By Sarah Nightingale | August 7, 2018 | Science / Technology

Striking a balance between immunity and inflammation

Focusing on hookworms, UC Riverside mouse study identifies role infection-fighting cells play in inflamed and damaged tissue

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 6, 2018 | Science / Technology

Historian’s database offers new view of colonial California

Through his Pobladores Project, Steven Hackel spotlights the non-American Indian settlers and soldiers who lived in California between 1769 and 1850

By Tess Eyrich | August 6, 2018 | Arts / Culture

Study examines how age and ethnicity impact HIV testing

UC Riverside-led study in Southern California finds stigma, risk perceptions, and cost among major factors contributing to adults’ willingness to get HIV tested

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 3, 2018 | Science / Technology
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Electronic nose startup gets whiff of success

Chromanose chosen for National Science Foundation Innovation Corps entrepreneurial support

By Holly Ober | August 2, 2018 | Science / Technology, Business
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Fake news can’t fool new algorithm

An algorithm that can already detect fake news stories with 75 percent accuracy gets a boost from Snap Research

By Holly Ober | July 30, 2018 | Science / Technology

New Spectre cyberthreat evades patches

New speculative execution attack launches from a computer’s return stack buffer, not the branch predictor

By Holly Ober | July 26, 2018 | Science / Technology
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Pest-monitoring device enters into field trials

The technology invented by engineers at UC Riverside could reduce pesticide use and crop loss

By Holly Ober | July 24, 2018 | Science / Technology, Business

Information Overload Has Been Around Since the 1800s

New book finds similarities between 19th and 21st century mass media consumption habits and their effects on society

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | July 20, 2018 | Social Science / Education
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Cancer Patients’ Conversation Topics Reflect Well-Being, Study Finds

Substantive dialogue may help, but emotional exchanges likely don't. Research finds that substantive conversation – conversation about news and ideas – is reflective of greater well-being among breast cancer patients.

By John Warren | July 19, 2018 | Health
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UC Riverside startup receives National Science Foundation grant

Small Business Innovation Research Program provides seed funding for BEAM-CA, LLC

By Holly Ober | July 19, 2018 | Business, Science / Technology
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Winners of 2018 UCR Medallion, Alumni Awards of Distinction Announced

Recipients to be honored at Chancellor’s Dinner on Oct. 20

By Brittney Carolina | July 19, 2018 | University

Graphic Novel Adaptation of “Kindred” Nominated for Eisner Award

John Jennings discusses the challenge of transforming the beloved classic into a best-selling graphic novel.

By Jessica Weber | July 17, 2018 | Arts / Culture

UCR researcher addresses incentive disparities in HIV research

To encourage subjects to participate in clinical and behavioral HIV studies, researchers often offer incentives such as cash or gift cards. But such remuneration could distort the sampling and end up inadvertently hurting the research findings. Lured by the incentives, participants could easily conceal information about themselves to qualify. Or...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 17, 2018 | Health
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Researchers to Target Mosquito Egg Production to Curtail Disease

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have received a five-year grant of $2.44 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, to investigate the role hormones play in the female mosquito’s ability to use human blood for egg production. Vector mosquitoes need...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 13, 2018 | Health, Science / Technology

Psychologist receives high honor from NAACP

RIVERSIDE, Calif.( www.ucr.edu) – Carolyn B. Murray, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the 2018 Dr. William Montague Cobb Award for special achievements in public health at the local level, presented annually by the National Health Committee of the National Association for the...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 12, 2018 | Social Science / Education

In search of dark matter

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter — constraints that can help identify the elusive dark matter particle and detect it on Earth. Dark matter — nonluminous material...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 12, 2018 | Science / Technology
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Donation brings zero-emissions vehicles one step closer to reality

New light-duty emissions testing facility gives UC Riverside the inside track toward the goal of zero-emission vehicles

By Holly Ober | July 11, 2018 | Science / Technology
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