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“The State of Work: Transportation, Distribution and Logistics in the Inland Empire” is a new report released by UCR Riverside and community partners on Feb. 28, 2024. (GettyImages)

Warehouse and trucking industries in the Inland Empire have provided more jobs, but also health risks and low wages, report finds

A new study offers strategies for improving the regional economy and discusses detrimental impacts on children and adults, most of whom are Black or Latino.

By | February 28, 2024 | Social Science / Education
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Sniffing our way to better health

New scent-based therapy can delay disease; has implications also for agricultural production

By Iqbal Pittalwala | February 27, 2024 | Science / Technology, Health
Surface expressed nucleocapsid protein on infected cells

Novel protective antibody target identified against Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus

CCHFV poses a threat to U.S. military personnel and hospital staff as well as residents of a growing number of countries, says UC Riverside biomedical scientist

By UCR News | February 27, 2024 | Health
carbon circularity

Strategy unveiled to achieve carbon-neutral air travel

UCR scientists unveil a path toward carbon-neutral air travel that lies in fostering development of e-kerosene, a type of sustainable aviation fuel made by combining captured carbon dioxide with hydrogen.

By David Danelski | February 26, 2024 | Science / Technology
Vaping and the coronavirus

Vaping can increase susceptibility to infection by SARS-CoV-2

UC Riverside study urges e-cigarette users to be cautious about vaping in the era of COVID-19

By Iqbal Pittalwala | February 26, 2024 | Science / Technology, Health
Mentors and mentees smiling

Highlanders win big with Big Brothers Big Sisters

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...

By Malinn Loeung | February 26, 2024 | Students, University
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Q&A: What can be done about the proliferation of deepfakes?

Q&A forum: UC Riverside computer science and public policy experts discuss the proliferation of malicious deepfake content in public discourse.

By David Danelski | February 22, 2024 | Science / Technology, Experts
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Conference to explore surge in Latino activism after California’s Prop. 187

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.

By | February 22, 2024 | Social Science / Education
fast computer processing

Method identified to double computer processing speeds

UCR computer scientists identify method identified to double computer processing speed using existing hardware

By David Danelski | February 21, 2024 | Science / Technology
Vietgone

'Vietgone' - zany, sexy, and maybe even a little bit true

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...

By J.D. Mathes | February 15, 2024 | Arts / Culture
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UCR to offer BA degree to students in the Norco state prison

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.

By David Danelski | February 14, 2024 | Social Science / Education, Students
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Scientists discover hidden army of lung flu fighters

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.

By Jules Bernstein | February 14, 2024 | Science / Technology
2023-24 UCR Fulbright faculty winners

UCR has among the most Fulbright winners in the U.S.

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...

By John Warren | February 14, 2024 | University
Malaria parasite in blood film

Fight against malaria takes a step forward

Identification of RNA-binding proteins using R-DeeP reveals new drug targets

By Iqbal Pittalwala | February 14, 2024 | Science / Technology
teacher

UCR School of Education secures $1 million grant

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.

By David Danelski | February 13, 2024 | Social Science / Education
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Legendary actor, alumni, and philanthropic leaders to be honored at first UCR Gala

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...

By UCR News | February 12, 2024 | University
microscope image of new nematode species

Surprise discovery of tiny insect-killing worm 

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.

By Jules Bernstein | February 8, 2024 | Science / Technology
plane and leaves

Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible

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.

By Jules Bernstein | February 7, 2024 | Science / Technology
Los Angeles Review of Books/UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Awards to honor Dave Eggers, Quincy Troupe, and Rigoberto González

Writers Week to honor Dave Eggers, Rigoberto González, and Quincy Troupe

Free literary festival is set for Feb. 10 and Feb. 12-16.

By | February 6, 2024 | Arts / Culture
Zoe Crosher

Exhibition explores line between real and fiction, in LA style

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...

By J.D. Mathes | February 5, 2024 | Arts / Culture
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