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UCR investigates some of the nation’s worst nitrogen pollution

Nitrogen pollution, largely from automobile exhaust, can reduce drinking water quality and make air difficult to breathe. Thanks to a $1.1 million grant, UC Riverside scientists will soon understand how much nitrogen dry ecosystems in Southern California can absorb before they produce negative effects. “Levels of nitrogen pollution in Riverside’s...

By Jules Bernstein | December 16, 2019 | Science / Technology
An elephant and a donkey having tug-a-war with an American flag

Divided GOP and Dems stand, united they worry

Democrats and Republicans will share one important aspect of the 2020 presidential election in common, a UCR psychologist asserts, based on her recently published research. They will experience similar levels of anxiety. A recent Associated Press poll found 53% of voters described themselves as anxious about the 2020 election. In...

By John Warren | December 12, 2019 | Social Science / Education
Annie Spratt

Experts on SATs/standardized tests

For fast access to experts, TEXT or call the 24-hour-experts hotline at 951-312-3049, or email news@ucr.edu SATs/standardized tests Stephen Brint: Distinguished professor of Sociology. Brint has written articles and books on standardized testing and its role in higher education. He is especially interested in solving education inequalities associated with racial...

By UCR News | December 11, 2019 | Experts
Basilard CEO Brynley Lee and founder Masa Rao

UC Riverside biotech startup will mass-produce engineered cells

The licensed technology is a tipping point for emerging lifesaving therapies

By Holly Ober | December 11, 2019 | Business, Science / Technology
Health Queers club members. (UCR/Sandra Baltazar Martínez)

Queer students interested in health? There’s a club for you

Health Queers is now one of more than 450 campus student organizations.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | December 9, 2019 | Students

She sees dead people

History doctoral student Alyse Yeargan studies photographs of the deceased to understand how and why we grieve

By Tess Eyrich | December 6, 2019 | Arts / Culture, Students

Gamma-ray laser moves a step closer to reality

Calculations by UC Riverside’s Allen Mills predict metastable positronium bubbles in liquid helium

By Iqbal Pittalwala | December 5, 2019 | Science / Technology

Simple experiment explains magnetic resonance

UC Riverside physics students design a table-top experiment for the classroom

By Iqbal Pittalwala | December 5, 2019 | Science / Technology
Fisherman against skyline of Leningrad, USSR, now St. Petersburg, Russia

Comprehensive digital photography collection and $500k endowment donated to UCR ARTS

The gift from Jim and Georgia Steinhart marks the art center’s inaugural born-digital collection and first-ever endowment

By Jessica Weber | December 4, 2019 | Arts / Culture

Drug decreases gut leakiness associated with ulcerative colitis

UC Riverside-led study is the first to show how tofacitinib affects epithelial cells lining the gut

By Iqbal Pittalwala | December 4, 2019 | Health
A green laser light going through the silicon quantum dots, and the silicon quantum dots re-emitting blue light (i.e. upconversion).

Making higher-energy light to fight cancer

Researchers use nontoxic silicon nanocrystals to convert low-energy photons into high-energy ones, bringing scientists closer to developing photodynamic treatments for cancer

By Holly Ober | December 2, 2019 | Science / Technology

Space travel can make the gut leaky

UC Riverside-led study tested the effects of microgravity on intestinal epithelial cells

By Iqbal Pittalwala | November 26, 2019 | Health
Seismograph recording

Earthquakes, chickens, and bugs, oh my!

New big data algorithms improve earthquake detection; monitor livestock health and agricultural pests

By Holly Ober | November 26, 2019 | Science / Technology

If dogs could talk

New research suggests our relationships with pit bulls shed light on the ways we reproduce social inequality

By Tess Eyrich | November 25, 2019 | Social Science / Education
Glasses on a book

UCR scientists rank among world’s most influential scholars

The world’s most influential scientific researchers in 2019 include 10 current UCR scholars. In its annual list, Clarivate Analytics names the most highly cited researchers — those whose work was most often referenced by other scientific research papers for the preceding decade in 21 fields across the sciences and social...

By Jules Bernstein | November 20, 2019 | Science / Technology
Prometheus Project Snow Globe. Courtesy Jeff Weiss Collective

Resurrecting Prometheus

Limited-edition snow globes commemorate the world’s oldest tree while supporting UCR ARTS

By Jessica Weber | November 19, 2019 | Arts / Culture

Get over it? When it comes to recycled water, consumers won't

If people are educated on recycled water, they may come to agree it’s perfectly safe and tastes as good — or better — than their drinking water. They may even agree it’s an answer to the critical water imbalance in California, where the northern third of the state holds 75%...

By John Warren | November 18, 2019 | Social Science / Education
Satellite image of sea ice after analysis by a new algorithm

Going with the floe: Sea ice movements trace dynamics transforming the new Arctic

Image processing algorithms on satellite images show how sea ice drift affects freshwater flux in Arctic Ocean currents

By Holly Ober | November 14, 2019 | Science / Technology
manufacturing

Inland Empire business activity outpacing U.S. GDP growth

Local manufacturing industry remains a key growth sector

By Victoria Pike Bond | November 14, 2019 | Business
Nija Whitson

UCR dance professor receives 2019 Bessie Award

This is the second such honor for Ni’Ja Whitson.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | November 14, 2019 | Arts / Culture
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