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The Hechinger Report writes about UC Riverside’s commercialization efforts

UC Riverside is one the universities making it easier for new discoveries to benefit the public

By Holly Ober | January 22, 2020 | Science / Technology, Business
air pollution

Clearing the air (inside your car)

UC Riverside research can improve car cabin air quality and help you choose your next car

By Holly Ober | January 13, 2020 | Science / Technology

Riverside makes Inc.’s top 50 Surge Cities list

UC Riverside drives the fast pace of entrepreneurship

By Holly Ober | December 17, 2019 | Business
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
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
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
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
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Precisely poking cells en masse to cure cancer

Device can mass-produce engineered cells at lower cost, a tipping point for emerging lifesaving therapies

By Holly Ober | November 13, 2019 | Science / Technology

Housing scarcity: the Inland Empire’s natural barrier to economic growth

UCR’s Center for Economic Forecasting says the region’s housing problem is a land use issue solvable at the local level

By Holly Ober | November 6, 2019 | Business
Students in Mona Eskandari's lab experimenting on pig lungs

Crimped or straight? Lung fiber shape influences elasticity

The shape and architecture of collagen and elastin fibers can improve our understanding of lung diseases, including the one associated with vaping

By Holly Ober | October 28, 2019 | Science / Technology, Health
Ribbon cutting ceremony for UC Riverside's Wet Lab Incubator

Entrepreneurship incubator boosts Inland Empire biotech startups

UC Riverside’s Wet Lab Incubator, the first of its kind in the region, has officially opened its doors

By Holly Ober | October 25, 2019 | Business

Agreement expands innovation and entrepreneurship support for the Americas

UC Riverside and the Organization of American States partner to grow entrepreneurship and technology commercialization in 34 countries

By Holly Ober | October 14, 2019 | Business
Happy mice

Testing chemicals for birth defects using stem cells, not mice

UC Riverside researchers are helping the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency eliminate animal testing

By Holly Ober | September 18, 2019 | Science / Technology
A smal laser-welded ceramic tube

Lasers can weld ceramics without a furnace

Ultrafast pulsed lasers fuse ceramics under ambient conditions and use less than 50 watts of power

By Holly Ober | August 22, 2019 | Science / Technology
A drone hovers near a wildfire

When disaster strikes, a search website for first responders will save lives

Researchers are building a tool that searches real-time text, photo, and video from many sources to help responders allocate resources

By Holly Ober | August 20, 2019 | Science / Technology

Federal Economic Development Administration invests in Inland Empire entrepreneurship

Latest grant to UC Riverside will create an angel investor network to take regional tech startups to the next level

By Holly Ober | August 8, 2019 | Business
Wind turbines for producing electricity

New bio-inspired technology is poised to disrupt the composites industry

The patented lightweight, impact-resistant technology could change the way we play sports, and improve wind-farm productivity and automotive fuel economy

By Holly Ober | August 7, 2019 | Science / Technology
A pile of woodchips, or biomass

Supercomputing improves biomass fuel conversion

Researchers combine supercomputing with nano-imaging to reveal how to efficiently break down plant biomass and transform it into transportation fuels

By Holly Ober | August 1, 2019 | Science / Technology
students working

Publishing company Wiley acquires zyBooks

The web-based, interactive textbook replacements were invented by a UC Riverside computer scientist and commercialized by the startup he co-founded, Zyante Inc

By Holly Ober | July 30, 2019 | Science / Technology
A teacher teaching young children.

Teacher incentive programs can improve student achievement

Programs that combine group and individual rewards can have good results and be cost-effective

By Holly Ober | July 22, 2019 | Social Science / Education
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