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Women running

Being fit may help the body beat dehydration

UC Riverside mouse study highlights why fitness may matter more in a warming, drier world

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 22, 2025 | Science / Technology, Health
Christina Schwenkel with her book

Vietnam’s sound decision

In her new book, Christina Schwenkel explains how sound became a vital tool in the country’s COVID-19 response

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 22, 2025 | Social Science / Education
breathing illustrated

Dusty air is rewriting your lung microbiome

Genetic or bacterial diseases have previously been shown to have an effect on lung microbes. However, a UC Riverside discovery marks the first time scientists have observed such changes from environmental exposure rather than disease.

By Jules Bernstein | October 21, 2025 | Science / Technology
Madrid airport

Private equity takes airports to new heights

Equity investors improved airport operating and customer service, finds a global study that spanned two decades and four continents.

By David Danelski | October 13, 2025 | Business
Fall trees on campus

Theodore Hullar, UC Riverside’s 5th chancellor, dies at 90

Theodore L. Hullar, who served as UC Riverside’s fifth chancellor from 1985 to 1987, died Sept. 28 at the age of 90.

By Sarah Nightingale | October 13, 2025 | University
Built in 1928, St. Mark’s Missionary Baptist Church is now surrounded by warehouses. (Aerial footage of Valley Truck Farms by Tamara Cedré and Adrian Metoyer III, 2024, courtesy of the artists and A People’s History of the I.E.)

Deliver us from overnight delivery

As the warehousing and logistics industry becomes increasingly entrenched in Southern California’s Inland Empire, a bold public history and art project called Live From the Frontline seeks to document — and illuminate — supply-chain communities in flux.

By UCR News | October 10, 2025 | Social Science / Education
Firing neuron

New hope for MS

Scientists identify two compounds that could benefit people living with multiple sclerosis

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 8, 2025 | Health
Demyelination of neuron

How brain myelin damage could lead to seizures in MS

Study may explain why some people living with multiple sclerosis experience epileptic seizures

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 8, 2025 | Health
EV model

Smarter battery tech knows whether your EV will make it home

A new diagnostic metric combines charge data and environmental factors like traffic patterns, elevation changes, and ambient temperature to generate real-time predictions about whether an EV battery can complete a specific task.

By Jules Bernstein | October 7, 2025 | Science / Technology

California partnership aided COVID-19 response and health equity, report finds

STOP COVID-19 CA showed how researchers and communities can work together to tackle health disparities

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 3, 2025 | Health
campus

Wall Street Journal names UCR No. 24 public university

UC Riverside was ranked No. 24 among public universities, an increase from No. 45 this past year, and No. 18 for social mobility in the 2026 Wall Street Journal/College Pulse rankings. This year’s Journal rankings represented a notable increase for UCR, climbing 51 positions to No. 57 in the overall...

By John Warren | October 2, 2025 | University
leech reconstruction

Rare fossil reveals ancient leeches weren’t bloodsuckers

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures. “This is the only body fossil we’ve ever found of this entire group,” said Karma Nanglu...

By Jules Bernstein | October 1, 2025 | Science / Technology
A view of the Inland Empire for the top of Mt Rubidoux

Most Inland Empire residents say they are struggling

The surveys conducted by UCR’s Center for Community Solutions uncovered both troubling disparities in the Inland Empire and hopeful signs of community cohesion. While the levels of well-being fell below national averages, Inland residents were more likely than other Americans to feel a sense of belonging in their communities.

By David Danelski | September 30, 2025 | Social Science / Education, Health
Four book covers of works by Sandra Cisneros.

An Evening with celebrated Latinx writer Sandra Cisneros

On Wednesday, October 8, UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences will host “Palabra y Poder: An Evening with Sandra Cisneros.”

By Susan T. Mashiyama | September 30, 2025 | Arts / Culture
Water use on an Imperial Valley farm.

Farm conservation is an economical path to save river water

The most cost-effective way to conserve the dwindling waters of the Colorado River may not come from building new reservoirs, canals, or wells, but from changing how water is used on farms that consume most of it. That’s the conclusion of a comprehensive study by UC Riverside’s School of Public...

By David Danelski | September 29, 2025 | Science / Technology, Business
Tylenol box

Q & A: Autism and Tylenol

Katherine Meltzoff, a UCR associate professor, answers questions about what’s known about Tylenol and its association with autism. She also discusses the science on autism and vaccines, and the use of the drug leucovorin as a treatment.

By David Danelski | September 26, 2025 | Experts, Science / Technology, Social Science / Education
Alia Tuqan gives a talk to seniors

Healthy Aging Month: Embracing wellness at every age

UCR Health’s Dr. Alia Tuqan shares tips on staying healthy, active, and connected as we age

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 26, 2025 | Health
Students disassemble an instrument

New adaptive optics to support gravitational-wave discoveries

UCR-developed technology will allow scientists to peer deeper into the universe

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 26, 2025 | Science / Technology
Glaciers

Carbon cycle flaw can plunge Earth into an ice age

How global warming may overcorrect into an ice age.

By Jules Bernstein | September 25, 2025 | Science / Technology
Girl has concussion

Childhood concussions may trigger long-term brain changes

Researchers call for extended care and monitoring after pediatric head injuries

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 25, 2025 | Health
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