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“Metaphysical Milkshake” sees the scholar and actor discuss weighty topics with contemporary thought leaders, bringing humor and insight to a new subject each week.
A $450,000 grant lets UCR continue helping clean energy entrepreneurs advance their ideas
Friends Mahmood Shaheen and Nathaniel Ortiz are taking recycling to the next level
Research shows which types of updates and comments keep donations flowing
Weak spot: labor market lags other parts of the economy
A new UC Riverside study finds geckos are fierce hunters whether or not their tails are attached to their bodies.
The promised return-to-normal set by Gov. Gavin Newsom came with the promised easing of restrictions, and then some. In April, Newsom announced that the familiar color tiers of the pandemic and their mandates would go away on June 15. The heads up gave UCR and the rest of the state...
UC Riverside mouse study suggests inflammation could play key role in progression to asthma
On a campus already actively growing its footprint in Inland Southern California, a proposed clean technology park would lead to a reinvention of UC Riverside’s relationship with the city and region. The park is Phase I of a more ambitious research and economic development project. The Opportunities to Advance Sustainability...
Nearly 4,500 students participated in modified in-person commencement ceremonies.
UC Riverside-led study points to a seed black hole produced by a dark matter halo collapse
Systematic review of apps finds need for evidence-based chatbots that have undergone end user evaluation
A UC Riverside engineer discusses direct air capture
Beginning around 1990, the demographic landscape of the Los Angeles area changed dramatically through an infusion of immigrants from Mexico and Central America. But historian Jorge Leal says its impact on the neighborhoods of the Los Angeles area has never been charted in earnest. With his recently published research, Leal...
Daryle Williams is a historian who co-directs the online database Enslaved.org.
When two similar atomic layers with mismatching lattice constants — the constant distance between a layer’s unit cells — and/or orientation are stacked together, the resulting bilayer can exhibit a moiré pattern and form a moiré superlattice. Moiré patterns are interference patterns that typically arise when one object with a...
“What are you … on their side?” The comment was one of many snarky remarks white teachers made about interactions between a Latino colleague and his diverse student population. In the staff lounge at the Sacramento, Calif., public school, the same teachers called the students “monkeys bouncing off the walls”...
UC Riverside scientists are hoping the RNA of an obscure infection can one day be used like a Trojan horse to deliver life-saving treatments to citrus trees.
UCR experts say Demi Lovato’s public announcement amplifies the conversation about gender identity.
John Martin Fischer, a leading philosopher of free will and moral responsibility, has written two companion essays exploring the ideas of mindfulness and living in the moment, which are often encapsulated in the phrase: “Be here now.” In the first piece, published by Aeon, Fischer sorts through various theories regarding...
