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The two-day Explode! Queer Dance Festival will showcase artists from across the United States and around the world, featuring contemporary dance, improvisation, and drag. Curated by dance scholar Clare Croft, this will mark the festival’s West Coast debut. UCR ARTS and the UCR Department of Dance are co-hosting the event...
A grant recently awarded to the Riverside Unified School District and UC Riverside will provide a high school curriculum that addresses air quality, in a region that is among the worst polluters in the country. The grant is for $1.19 million and is from the National Science Foundation, or NSF...
UC Riverside-led team performs two studies to examine effects of sleep, age, and depressed mood on working memory
UC Riverside biomedical scientist’s decades-long work moves to clinical trials
The gift from the mother-daughter philanthropists is tied for the largest ever to the university from individual donors
In his latest book, a scholar of Native American history explores a little-known collaboration that made big impacts
Life sciences startups will have local wet lab space and guidance from experts
Although the Black Panther Party dissolved nearly 40 years ago, the movement’s legacy endures — largely through the iconic imagery created by former party member Emory Douglas. As the minister of culture for the Black Panther Party and graphic artist for the organization’s newspaper, Douglas was charged with establishing the...
Doctoral student Katrin Boniface turns a lifelong passion into research for a growing field: equine history
A first-of-its-kind UC Riverside study asserts that women don’t gossip negatively more often than men, lower income people don’t gossip more than more wealthy people, and younger people are more likely to gossip negatively than their older counterparts.
Some of what scientists know about how parasitic nematodes damage their host’s tissues may be missing the mark
Marilyn Fogel, a University of California, Riverside endowed geoecology professor, received one of the highest honors in science this week with her election to the National Academy of Sciences, or NAS. Membership in the NAS is rare. According to the Congressional Research Service, there are 6.9 million scientists in the...
What was once a destination for Hollywood's biggest stars is now one of California's gravest environmental threats. Test your knowledge to see how much you know about the Salton Sea. Learn more about the Salton Sea and its history and impacts on our air, water, earth, and fire in the...
UC Riverside climbed 37 places in the most recent Forbes magazine rankings, from No. 64 to No. 27.
The UC Riverside professor of screenwriting worked with Singleton in the early 1990s.
Taking care to stand upwind, UC Riverside students display stoic professionalism as they collect insects off a pig carcass in 90-degree heat. This scene from a class in forensic entomology could have been ripped from any TV police drama and in some ways, it was. Professor Alec Gerry said intense...
Experts on Measles and Vaccines For fast access to experts, email news@ucr.edu Richard Carpiano, professor of public policy Professor of public policy and sociology. Medical sociology; social determinants of health; vaccination and misinformation related to vaccines; behavioral and attitudinal factors underlying child vaccination uptake (and refusal or delay) in the...
Grant to UC Riverside could help put tiny tomato plants on the International Space Station
The solar thermal technology directs heated air from the attic into a closet where wet clothes are hanging
For fast access to experts, TEXT or call the 24-hour-experts hotline at 951-312-3049, or email news@ucr.edu The environment and climate change Robert J. Allen, associate professor of earth sciences Professor Allen can speak to climate change modeling and the impact of climate change on precipitation. Allen’s expertise includes forecasting precipitation...
