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UC Riverside study urges e-cigarette users to be cautious about vaping in the era of COVID-19
Two University of California, Riverside undergraduate students have been named 2024’s Mentor of the Year by Big Brothers Big Sisters, or BBBS, of the Orange County and the Inland Empire region. This annual announcement honors individuals who demonstrate how mentoring relationships help mentees — or “Littles,” achieve their biggest possible...
Nearly 30 years later, experts will discuss why this short-lived law sparked change within Latino communities. Conference will be March 1-2 in downtown Riverside.
Q&A forum: UC Riverside computer science and public policy experts discuss the proliferation of malicious deepfake content in public discourse.
UCR computer scientists identify method identified to double computer processing speed using existing hardware
UCR’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production is staging “Vietgone” by Qui Nguyen through Feb. 24. Nguyen described “Vietgone” as a “probably-mostly-true” and "zany, sex comedy” about how his parents met in a refugee camp at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, after the fall of Saigon in 1975. His future father...
Identification of RNA-binding proteins using R-DeeP reveals new drug targets
UC Riverside will offer a Bachelor of Arts program within the confines of the Norco California Rehabilitation Center, a prison about 50 east of Los Angeles.
Scientists have long thought of the fluid-filled sac around our lungs merely as a cushion from external damage. UC Riverside scientists have learned it also houses potent virus-eating cells that rush into the lungs during flu infections.
UC Riverside is among the top Fulbright scholar-producing universities in 2023-24, according to an announcement this week by the U.S. State Department. UCR also has the most Fulbright faculty recipients of any University of California campus for 2023-24. The Fulbright Program, founded in 1946, includes a monetary award from the...
UCR receives a $1 million grant from an Inland Empire collaborative group to further its efforts to address the California teacher shortage and diversify the teacher workforce.
Cheech Marin, the popular actor, cultural icon, and arts advocate, will receive UC Riverside’s highest honor at the university’s new annual gala event. Marin will receive the UCR Medallion in recognition of his contributions that led to the creation of The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in...
UC Riverside scientists have discovered a tiny worm species that infects and kills insects. These worms, called nematodes, could control crop pests without pesticides in warm, humid places where other beneficial nematodes are currently unable to thrive.
When it comes to making fuel from plants, the first step has always been the hardest — breaking down the plant matter. A new study finds that introducing a simple, renewable chemical to the pretreatment step can finally make next-generation biofuel production both cost-effective and carbon neutral.
Free literary festival is set for Feb. 10 and Feb. 12-16.
The first exhibition in the New Acquisitions Series is the artist Zoe Crosher’s seven photographs that make up "LA Like: “Transgressing the Pacific (2008–10).” Alyse Yeargan, collections manager for the UCR Arts’ California Museum of Photography, or CMP, says she chose Crosher’s photographs for several reasons. The works are “emotionally...
An alumnus and his family establish a fund that supports professors, scholarships, fellowships, research, equipment, and other STEM-related initiatives at UCR.
Ruth Charloff, the conductor of the UCR Orchestra, says the upcoming performance of UCR’s orchestra will begin with Henri Büsser’s orchestral adaptation of Claude Debussy's “Petite Suite for four-hands.” The suite Charloff said, “is an intimate piece.” “Think about two people sitting next to each other on one piano bench...
A new study may hold a secret for getting your teenager to appreciate your unsolicited advice. The study, which included “emerging adults” — those in their late teens and early 20s — found teens will appreciate parents’ unsolicited advice, but only if the parent is supportive of their teens’ autonomy...
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