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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
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...
Resident advisors are creating ways to remain virtually connected while building a sense of community with first-year students in campus housing.
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
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...
Phase 2 study investigates efficacy of the drug ecopipam developed by Emalex Biosciences Inc.
Hybrid neural network can reconstruct Arabic or Japanese characters that it hasn’t seen before
Regional employment recovered more than 54,000 jobs
New grants totaling $6.3 million will help UC Riverside solve problems facing American avocado orchards, including a lethal fungal disease called Laurel Wilt. The disease can destroy an entire avocado orchard in a couple of weeks once symptoms develop. It is already present in Florida. Without effective treatments, it will...
The meaning of happiness varies depending where in the world a person lives and so benefits from using different measures, new UC Riverside research finds. Happiness studies historically have focused on the Western ideal of happiness, which is relatively self-centered and big on thrills. “Accordingly, the prevailing conceptualization of happiness...
Host campus UC Riverside will be joined by UC Davis and UC Merced
On Dec. 4, a federal judge restored the rights afforded undocumented immigrants eligible for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program. The program was established within the Department of Homeland Security in 2012 to grant work permits and protection from deportation to young people brought to the...
Students, faculty, and staff can still access books and materials.
Meeting virtually with people outside your household is safest, says UC Riverside epidemiologist
UCR was named the No. 4 university in the country in terms of social mobility, which gauges a school's success in elevating its graduates to higher income brackets.
The post-pandemic cruise industry should plan ticket sales to attract loyalists, who book early in advance and are less price sensitive
