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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

The Paleo-Agulhas Plain had diverse, verdant ecosystems and abundant game

An international research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has observed light emission from a new type of transition between electronic valleys, known as intervalley transmissions. The research provides a new way to read out valley information, potentially leading to new types of devices. Current semiconductor...

A team of UCR water economists finds certain types of water conservation could have unintended consequences

UC Riverside-led study identifies role played by an immune signaling molecule in regulating memory function in the normal and injured brain

UCR’s community garden delivers fresh fruit and vegetables to students who remain on campus.

Still, UC Riverside researchers warn that without action, the sector’s recent gains could be undone by COVID-19

First survey of California’s bees in 50 years will look for effects of habitat destruction

The first class of fellows begins training in the Coachella Valley’s Betty Ford Center and Eisenhower Medical Center on July 1

Before they arrived at UC Riverside, Kevin Krause ’92 and Ray Rodriguez ’92 were junior college rivals on the basketball court. So when they got to campus as Highlander teammates, they were surprised — and not altogether thrilled — to discover they would be roommates. “We had played each other...

Healthcare under pressure as pandemic exposes critical industry shortcomings

Delay in lockdowns increase cases by a 15% to 25% per week late; failure to lockdown increases cases 45% to 128%

Every spring, hundreds of prospective college students flock to UC Riverside for a tour of the campus to help them decide where to go that fall. With on-campus tours no longer possible, UCR is offering an online alternative. Last month, its team of student tour guides began offering Zoom meetings...

Though “murder hornets” are dominating recent headlines, there are no Asian Giant Hornets currently known to be living in the U.S. or Canada, according to UC Riverside Entomology Research Museum Senior Scientist Doug Yanega.

Most things, including universities, start with a whisper, a tremor. UC Riverside bolted from the starting gate, founded as the University of California system’s answer to the esteemed private liberal arts colleges of the East. The chief architect was its first provost, Gordon Watkins, who died 50 years ago, on...