
Clearing the air (inside your car)
UC Riverside research can improve car cabin air quality and help you choose your next car

Riverside makes Inc.’s top 50 Surge Cities list
UC Riverside drives the fast pace of entrepreneurship
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

Earthquakes, chickens, and bugs, oh my!
New big data algorithms improve earthquake detection; monitor livestock health and agricultural pests

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

Precisely poking cells en masse to cure cancer
Device can mass-produce engineered cells at lower cost, a tipping point for emerging lifesaving therapies
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

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

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

Testing chemicals for birth defects using stem cells, not mice
UC Riverside researchers are helping the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency eliminate animal testing

Lasers can weld ceramics without a furnace
Ultrafast pulsed lasers fuse ceramics under ambient conditions and use less than 50 watts of power

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
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

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

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