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UCR will provide technical assistance to 1,000 small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

The grant comes from the California Attorney General’s Office Automobile Emissions Research and Technology Fund

Thanks to the donation, Oban Family Housing now has a bike-share program.

Lei Stanley Qi of Stanford University will give the 2021 Thomas and Salma Haider Biomedical Breakthrough Lecture at UC Riverside

UC Riverside vaccine expert David Lo explains

Lidar mapping study reveals vast landscape modifications that still influence construction and farming

Seeds that would otherwise lie dormant will spring to life with the aid of a new chemical discovered by a UC Riverside-led team.

Synthetic strigolactones could also improve nutrient uptake in crops

Effective Monday, Sept. 20, the Graduate School of Education will officially become the School of Education, or SOE. The new name will reflect the scope of the school’s research, community engagement, and academic programs, specifically the undergraduate degree program, which was approved in 2017 and now accounts for 60% of...

The most promising startup as judged by Angel Investors will receive over $100,000 in investment

The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.

The School of Medicine has lessons to share after several months of in-person classes with no documented cases of COVID-19 transmission

As students show up for move-in day at UC Riverside, they are arriving to a campus that –from a housing perspective – is reinvented from the pre-pandemic campus of two Septembers ago. Two residential communities – Dundee Residence Hall and the North District Apartments – are open for students, significantly...

Several spaces have been outfitted to serve students with hybrid class schedules.

For the third consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has named UC Riverside the top university in the nation for social mobility. The social mobility category considers the degree to which a university elevates its low-income graduates to a higher standard of living. As rankings leaders such as U.S...

A dive into Washington Monthly’s recent ranking of 393 four-year universities reveals an important success: UC Riverside is the No. 1 university in the nation for Pell Grant performance. The measure considers how many low-income students a university serves compared with statewide earnings. The Pell Grant is the largest federal...

Born from the pandemic, College Bigs, will count on nearly 150 UCR students to work with local high school mentees.

Esther Fincher Hays, an academic physician, community activist, and philanthropist who supported UC Riverside’s programs in medicine, engineering and music, died June 10, 2021 at her home in Riverside. She was 94 years old. Born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in Ithaca, NY, Hays attend Cornell University, Cornell Medical School...

In less time than it takes to read this sentence, hummingbirds can catch a whiff of potential trouble. That’s the result of new UC Riverside research showing, contrary to popular belief, the tiny birds do have an active sense of smell.

UC Riverside astronomer and colleagues use simulations to reveal how the very faint dwarf galaxies are born