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UC Riverside’s herbarium, established over 60 years ago, is an irreplaceable library of plant specimens. Now, a $900,000 bequest from its founder Frank Vasek and his wife Maxine will ensure the resource remains available to many generations of future plant scientists, and that it receives needed repairs and reorganization. Vasek...
The Chinese Americans Donation Center also donated 1,000 face shields to the School of Medicine
The guide was developed to help teachers build better relationships with students remotely
UC Riverside mouse study will identify mechanisms the gene PTPN2 uses to affect gut cells
Just call him Professor Guinea Pig. Adapting to remote learning this quarter, Professor Rich Cardullo is performing all the experiments for his human physiology laboratory course — on himself. Picture a video in which your professor puts electrodes on his thighs and has a teaching assistant hit his knees, so...
Meet the three companies that have secured funding and expanded operations
In the midst of the pandemic, faculty mentored research projects are being supported through CAMP.
UC Riverside-led study shows inhibiting two host cell proteases can accomplish the task
Richard Edwards and Nathaniel Wildes of XCITE discuss preparing UCR for remote exams while students continue to shelter in place
To a voyeur at this May 1 virtual songwriting session, it was straight-up fun; a valve release for pent-up pandemic creativity. But the undercurrent of the music production session among members of the UCR EARS music group was something more intentional. Once upon a musical ambition, hitting it big meant...
Research suggests destigmatizing mental illness in schools could increase the likelihood of treatment-seeking for youth who need it
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Research supported by five-year NIH grant may have relevance for COVID-19 patients
Sean Harper is the first person to admit he wasn’t the most disciplined student when he came to UC Riverside as a biomedical sciences student four decades ago. “I was still 17 for my first few weeks at UCR,” Harper said. “I knew that I wanted to study medicine but...
World Bee Day is May 20. To mark the occasion, we gathered some of UC Riverside’s top bee experts to answer questions submitted on our Instagram page. The response created, for lack of a better term, quite a buzz! We got so many questions — hundreds — that we could...
COVID-19 health mandates disproportionally affect arts and culture businesses
While quarantined bakers discover sourdough starters, bioengineers tweak yeast to produce compounds that could fight cancer
Vegetation changes can outweigh climate change in rangeland water budgets
UC Riverside scientists have solved a 20-year-old genetics puzzle that could result in ways to protect wheat, barley, and other crops from a devastating infection. Ayala Rao, professor of plant pathology and microbiology, has been studying Brome Mosaic virus for decades. Unlike some viruses, the genetic material of this virus...
UC Riverside engineer is working on ways to pre-screen patients with difficulty breathing for earlier intervention
