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As you enter “ Every Day We Must Make the Reality of This World: AI Post Photography,” you step from a darkened, industrial space into a bright white room that curves around to an exit. It’s like stepping into the Discovery One spaceship in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”...

With three new grants totaling more than $11 million, UC Riverside is helping lead the fight against citrus greening or Huanglongbing, a disease threatening citrus industries in the U.S. and worldwide.

UC Riverside joined the Big Leagues of United States research universities – the Association of American Universities — in 2023 and, out of the gate, the headlines on UCR’s news pages affirmed why it was invited to join. As we draw the curtain on the calendar year, here’s a “Top...

Bella Merlin, professor of theatre, film, and digital production, releases a third edition with updated case studies and a focus on inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

The event includes 52 authors and will honor literary giants Dave Eggers, Quincy Troupe, and Rigoberto González.

VR tool developed by UC Riverside graduate student promises to serve an important purpose in education and research

The incoming freshmen class at UC Riverside – and all students across the nation – will for the first time fill out a significantly revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, form. The FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020 (https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/fafsa-simplification-act) goes into effect for the 2024-25 school year, which...

Dark matter may be more vibrant than previously thought, UC Riverside study reports

UC Riverside professor John Martin Fischer coauthors a book that discusses the pros and cons of life and death.

A groups of UCR undergraduate students design and build from the ground up a showcase house that will use solar electricity so wisely it doesn’t need to be connected to the grid.

A new study shows the protective effect of income has largely eroded over the past 40 years, as landscape plants can’t keep up with the pace of climate warming.

UC Riverside research can help scientists develop methods to prevent COVID-19 in mink and other species

A UCR-led study finds that online consumers view sponsored product listings with suspicion when they shop on major platforms, such as Amazon and eBay. Shoppers often prefer to click on what are called “organic” listings that appear high in their product search results but are not sponsored.

One of the world’s worst pests is infesting crops all over California. There are seven active quarantines spanning the length of the state, but experts say those affecting San Bernardino and Riverside counties are especially serious.

UC Riverside geologists discovered 10 new species of trilobites hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand. They could be the missing pieces in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography.

At an orchestra’s rehearsal, a listener can get a sense of the relationship between the conductor and the musicians. With Ruth Charloff, the conductor of the UCR Orchestra, we discover she is more than a conductor. She educates her students in performance expertise, while also showing them the rich history...

The stage of the ARTS Building’s Studio Theatre is a floor with seating on three sides. For the theatre department’s latest production, “Airness,” the stage is converted to a Staten Island bar, with the bar and stools set back to the right and tables and chairs to the left. Downstage...

Research team, including a UC Riverside astronomer, made the discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope

Sam Bankman-Fried (aka, S.B.F.), is a cryptocurrency CEO convicted of duping more than a million investors. John Martin Fischer is a UC Riverside philosophy professor who is a world-leading expert on free will and moral responsibility. Fischer's ruminations on near-death experiences have been consumed by millions in his writings and...

Huntington’s disease causes dementia, has no cure, and is fatal. UC Riverside scientists show they can slow its progression in flies and worms, opening the door to human treatments.