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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

In two years, UCR transfer applications have climbed by 23 percent.

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

Groundbreaking study finds increased support for punitive immigration legislation in districts with privately owned or managed ICE detention facilities

UCR alumnus and renowned scholar Richard Schrock will share pioneering science with faculty and students

Graphene thermal interface and steam hydrogasification receive TechConnect National Innovation Awards

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s gift leverages campaign support to fund 26 faculty fellowships at the Center for Ideas and Society

SHINES at UC Riverside pursues fundamental advances in energy production, storage, and use

UC Riverside’s Armando Navarro will travel to Mexico City in advance of the July 1 election to survey voters and visit polling places

Building and construction spending, permitting rises as home demand intensifies

Program will build new educational pathways in computing or technology for students, especially women, who otherwise would not study these subjects in college