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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

UC Riverside engineer is working on ways to pre-screen patients with difficulty breathing for earlier intervention

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

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%

XCITE director Richard Edwards explains UCR’s response to the phenomena and offers guidance on how to tighten Zoom security

One of humanity’s oldest creations is the most powerful weapon against the coronavirus

UC Riverside biomedical scientist Marcus Kaul explains

UC Riverside engineers are developing low-temperature plasma technology to sterilize masks

Though no proven treatment for COVID-19 currently exists, UC Riverside virologist Juliet Morrison feels there’s a good chance one will emerge. Morrison, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, investigates the science behind promising avenues for new antiviral therapies. She explains what those are and weighs...

Computer science student helps ensure Covid-19 pandemic won’t hinder academic success in his community

Economist Gloria González-Rivera offers insight on how to limit damage

A second outbreak will have even worse damage

Nineteen UCR authors offer their top picks for books to read while sheltering in place

Finding the right activity could mean you experience the same well-being during the long quarantine as you would when not in quarantine, UCR research finds.

The top floor of the UC Riverside Extension building has a new and esteemed set of occupants: doctors and other health care workers on the front lines of the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. About two weeks ago, the university received two requests to provide healthcare workers with alternative housing...

Work on selective immune system suppression in influenza could transfer directly to COVID-19

The goal is to make at least 750 masks, which are free for essential UCR employees.