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SAVE focuses on mutations in SARS-CoV-2 and emerging virus variants

Labor shortages will be region’s key restraint on economic growth

UC Riverside scientists will spend the next three years studying the traits that allow soil microbes to respond to fire, as well as the role those microbes play in storing or emitting powerful greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide or nitrous oxide.

To gauge the impacts of dark mornings in some parts of the country, we spoke with two UC Riverside experts

Inland Empire families don’t have to wade through school and service systems alone

UC Riverside’s Dr. David Lo, a vaccine expert, shares his thoughts

Poetry collection captures the author's own life, as well as many of the golden state’s overlooked truths: genocide, environmental degradation, and climate change.

Related to Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine, China is fielding as many requests for aid from Russia as it's receiving threats from the West about what will happen if it provides that aid. We asked two UC Riverside China experts to provide perspective about the likelihood of all-in Chinese aid...

Experts on the plight of the unhoused contend the plan would criminalize being poor and mentally ill

UCR research shows race evasiveness harms teacher educators and charts a path toward identifying and disrupting racism

Local wages are not rising enough to keep up with inflation

Underrepresented students will participate in carefully designed summer research and educational activities at UC Riverside

Capturing the essence of a place requires more than time. It requires confianza. Trust. That’s why for more than a year a team co-led by a UC Riverside cultural and urban historian interviewed, researched, and documented the lives of Boyle Heights residents — all in the midst of the COVID-19...

Experts on Warehouses, Amazon, and Labor For fast access to experts, email news@ucr.edu Ellen Reese, professor of sociology Professor of sociology and chair of Labor Studies at UCR, Reese’s research focuses on gender, race, and class, welfare state development, social movements, poverty, and work. She has published extensively on warehouse...

The War in Ukraine For fast access to experts, email news@ucr.edu Paul D’Anieri, professor of political science D'Anieri asserts that the Ukrainian conflict is a product of Vladimir Putin and the Russian elite never having accepted Ukrainian independence in 1991. Putin was further angered by the U.S. invasion of Iraq...

Wednesday, we asked UC Riverside Professor and leading Ukraine-Russia expert Paul D'Anieri to weigh in on breaking developments related to a 15-point peace plan being discussed that could end the month-long war between Ukraine and Russia. The conditions would surround Ukrainian neutrality — with a peace plan's fate dependent on...

Set in the Inland Empire, her tenth novel, weaves together people, history, and scenery.

A gift from SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union to UC Riverside School of Education is funding a program to get local education students into graduate or credential programs

UC Riverside’s winner, Claire Whitaker, moves onto the UC-level competition in May.

UC Riverside-led research could lead to novel antimalarial therapeutic strategies