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$1.4 million grant awarded to spur water recycling technology

The University of California system has awarded a $1.4 million grant to UC Riverside chemical and environmental engineering professor Haizhou Liu and a collaborative team from several UC campuses to combat water scarcity by developing strategies to clean and reuse water for agriculture. With California facing climate change and dwindling...

By David Danelski | December 17, 2024 | Science / Technology
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Industry experience pays off in corporate audits, study finds

Corporations that partner with auditors who specialize in the company’s industry reap cost savings and get a better picture of their finances, while auditors who “low-ball” their fees to compensate for a lack of experience by hiking their fees in subsequent years and produce lower-quality audits, a new study has...

By David Danelski | December 10, 2024 | Business
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AI’s deadly air pollution toll

Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electricity to the fast-growing number of computer processing centers. This air pollution, a new UCR and Caltech study estimates, is expected to result in...

By David Danelski | December 9, 2024 | Science / Technology, Business
hog farming

AI optimizes hog farming profitability

Deciding when to bring a hog to market has never been an easy task. To maximize profits, farmers must gauge changing animal weights, pork prices, feed costs, and pen space, while also keeping an inventory of ready-for-market pigs to meet long-term contractual obligations with meat processors. With so many variables...

By David Danelski | November 25, 2024 | Business, Science / Technology
Voltu truck

UCR collaboration brings in electric truck manufacturer

Voltu Motor Inc., an Argentine company recognized for its sustainable and versatile electric vehicles, will establish its global headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Riverside.

By David Danelski | November 22, 2024 | Science / Technology, University
plastic bags

Plastic bag bans have lingering impacts, even after repeals

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering impacts include some that run contrary to the goals of the policies.

By David Danelski | November 15, 2024 | Business, Social Science / Education
prortesters

Cultural war conflicts cost US schools billions of dollars

Two-thirds of nearly 500 U.S. school superintendents surveyed described moderate to high levels of culturally divisive conflict in their school district over race, LGBTQ+ student rights, and book access that is disrupting education and costing U.S. schools billions of dollars, according to a report released Wednesday by academics at four...

By David Danelski | October 23, 2024 | Social Science / Education
A forgiving fist bump

Manliness concerns impede forgiveness of coworkers

The more men are concerned about appearing masculine, the less likely they will forgive a co-worker for a transgression such as missing an important meeting, a study led by UCR business professor Michael Haselhuhn has found. What’s more, such men are also more likely seek revenge or avoid the transgressor...

By David Danelski | October 16, 2024 | Business
hydrogen truck

UCR scientists cut harmful pollution from hydrogen engines

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a low-cost method to significantly reduce nitrogen oxides pollution from hydrogen engines by improving the efficiency of their catalytic converters. As reported in the journal Nature Communications

By David Danelski | October 9, 2024 | Science / Technology
startups

Inland SoCal Accelerate Hub gives IE startups a boost

UC Riverside is leading the Inland SoCal Accelerate Hub, which connects local startup companies with the resources they need to be successful.

By David Danelski | October 4, 2024 | Business, University
vote

UCR experts demystified voter props in online forum

Once again California voters are facing a plethora of state initiatives to decide on issues ranging from increasing penalties for theft and drug offenses to borrowing money to build schools. To help voters better understand the myriad of propositions on the Nov. 5 ballot, the UC Riverside Office of Alumni...

By David Danelski | September 30, 2024 | Social Science / Education, University
Vehicle charging

UCR experts call for comprehensive electrical grid upgrades 

Significant growth in electricity use in California in the coming decades calls for systemic, well-coordinated, proactive, collaborative, and equitable upgrades to state’s electrical grid

By David Danelski | September 27, 2024 | Science / Technology
abortion prop-con protesters

Q&A: 10 states face abortion rights initiatives

Shaun Bowler, professor of political science, and Andy Crosby, an assistant professor of teaching in the School of Public Policy, weigh in on how the plethora of state abortion rights initiatives may affect the presidential election.

By David Danelski | September 18, 2024 | Social Science / Education, Experts
bacteria

NSF grants $22 million for 'extreme microbe' lab collaboration

The National Science Foundation has announced a $22 million grant to establish a “BioFoundry” laboratory for the study of extreme microorganisms with collaborating facilities at UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and Cal Poly Pomona. The BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea, and Bacteria, or ExFAB, will focus on developing...

By David Danelski | August 20, 2024 | Science / Technology, University
homeless encampment in Los Angeles

Q&A: Gov. Newsom's crackdown on homeless encampments

UC Riverside professors Catherine Gudis and Bruce Link answer questions about Gov. Gavin Newsom's order to dismantle homeless encampments in California.

By David Danelski | August 2, 2024 | Social Science / Education, Health, Experts
The Gage Canal at UCR's Agricultural Experiment Station

Bold moves needed for California agriculture

California should take urgent and bold measures to adapt its $59 billion agriculture sector to climate change as the amount of water available for crops declines, according to a collaborative report by University of California faculty from four campuses. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the...

By David Danelski | July 26, 2024 | Science / Technology, Business
UCR professor Yujie Men

Microbes found to destroy certain ‘forever chemicals’

A UC Riverside environmental engineering team has discovered that specific bacterial species can cleave the strong fluorine-to-carbon bond certain kinds of “forever chemical" water pollutants, offering promise for low-cost treatments of contaminated drinking water.

By David Danelski | July 17, 2024 | Science / Technology
data center and power plant

Professor joins UN panel on environmental impacts of AI

UC Riverside professor Shaolei Ren remotely shared his research findings about the the environmental consequences of increasing AI processing demands to a United Nations committee meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.

By David Danelski | July 8, 2024 | Science / Technology
An immigrant family sees a nurse in Brownsville, Texas.

Dehumanizing rhetoric on immigration harms public health

When top political leaders engage in dehumanizing rhetoric — rather than condemn it — stigmatization of immigrants becomes more legitimized and pervasive in society. The harm goes beyond those seeking entry into the country. It also extends to groups viewed as associated with immigration, such as descendants of immigrants, and...

By David Danelski | June 28, 2024 | Health, Social Science / Education
meeting of the United Nations

UCR professor to serve on United Nations climate panel

Representing the United States, UCR professor Mihri Ozkan I will provide recommendations to a United Nations panel for emerging research and strategies needed to shape the future of direct air carbon capture technology and "its role in our collective quest for a carbon-neutral society."

By David Danelski | June 26, 2024 | Science / Technology
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