UCR’s African Student Program Center Receives the 2024 Center of the Year Award by the ABCC

This year the University of California, Riverside’s African Student Program Center (ASP) was awarded Center of the Year. ASP Director Jamal Myrick, Ed.D, shared that this marks the first time UCR’s ASP  has received the award since the organization was established in 1972.
Black Voice News | December 3, 2024

How your skin tone could affect your meds

Sophie Zaaijer, scientific consultant and researcher at UCR, explores how our skin tone could affect the medications we take.
The Academic Minute | December 3, 2024

Studying the molecular mechanisms important for the parasite that causes malaria

Karine Le Roch discusses the internship that shaped her path to a career in science and discovering a new drug that targets malaria-causing parasites in this podcast.

A Native American perspective of Thanksgiving

Gerald Clarke, Jr., UCR ethnic studies professor and member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians talks about Thanksgiving, native history, and the incoming US president.
KQED | November 28, 2024

Mother-son team’s fossil find shows how nematodes—and all arthropods—arose

Paleontologist Ian Hughes and his mother, University of California, Riverside, paleoecologist Mary Droser, are part of a small team that has uncovered wormlike fossils in South Australia that provide a key clue to explaining how a large group of animals called ecdysozoans became so diverse. 
Science Magazine | November 19, 2024

How a team of gophers restored Mount St. Helens after its catastrophic eruption with less than a day of digging

After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities left a remarkably enduring impact, according to study by UCR microbiologists Michael Allen and Emma Aronson, and University of Connecticut mycologist Mia Maltz, who was a postdoctoral scholar in Aronson’s lab at UCR when the study began.
Smithsonian Magazine | November 14, 2024

Frogs kick back against lethal fungus

Scientists are seeing signs of resistance to infections that have been wiping out the world’s amphibian populations. UCR mycologist Jason Stajich, coauthor of a recent report on the virus in Current Biology, weighs in on the latest efforts to fight the infections.
Knowable Magazine | November 6, 2024

Ice melting could slow vital ocean current - which could slightly slow melting

UCR graduate student Yu-Chi Lee led a team that found a slowing ocean current could keep Arctic temperatures 2° C (3.6° F) cooler than they would otherwise likely be in 2100. That sounds encouraging – until you realize that under their calculations the region warms by a shocking 8° C (14.4° F) instead of a catastrophic 10° C (18° F).
IFL Science / MSN | October 28, 2024

Opinion: Vivid pinks, greens and Dodger blue mark the joy of October in Southern California

Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Susan Straight offers a beautiful perspective on fall colors in Southern California.
The Los Angeles Times | October 24, 2024

How the Culture Wars Are Costing Schools Billions

Joseph Kahne, with UCR's School of Education, authored a study showing that issues involving race and policies related to LGBTQ+ students’ rights have cost American schools more than $3 billion in the 2023-24 academic year.
Education Week | October 23, 2024

US public schools burned up nearly $3.2bn fending off rightwing culture attacks – report

UCR researchers surveyed 467 schools and found funds for learning improvements were diverted to security, PR and attorneys.
The Guardian | October 23, 2024

UCR Palm Desert launches online cannabis workforce program

To address the high demand for skilled workers in the rapidly growing cannabis industry, UCR Palm Desert has launched a new program. Program Director Agam Patel speaks with the station about the program.

Yep, you’re probably breathing in plastic chemicals, study finds

Chances are you’re inhaling the toxic chemicals used to make plastics more flexible, according to a new study by led by David Volz, UC Riverside professor of environmental toxicology.
LAist / KPCC 89.3 FM | October 8, 2024

DNA Reveals the Origin Stories of America’s Captive Tigers

Ellie E. Armstrong, assistant professor of evolutionary genomics at UCR, is a co-author of a new study in which the ​​genomes of 138 tigers rescued from private ownership were sequenced, including two once owned by Joe Exotic, the main subject of “Tiger King.”
The New York Times | October 4, 2024

What happens when art and science collide? PST Art in Los Angeles has the answer

The Financial Times chats with Douglas McCulloh, UCR ARTS interim director, regarding the mega exhibition Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World.
The Financial Times | September 27, 2024

How to protect plants during a heat wave: Experts offer advice

ABC7 interviews UCR Professor of Agricultural and Urban Water Management Amir Verdi about the devastating impacts that prolonged heat waves can have on plants. 
ABC7 Eyewitness News | September 14, 2024

Southern California wildfires affect tens of millions from miles away with toxic air

Roopa Viraraghavan at the UCR School of Medicine says she’s already seeing patients with complaints of respiratory and eye irritation, along with fatigue, headaches and reduced lung functions.
USA Today | September 13, 2024

Unhealthy Fathers May Pass Heart Disease Risk to Daughters

Scientists previously believed that sperm contribute only their genome during fertilization, but a new study led by UCR biomedical scientist Changcheng Zhou shows a connection between what fathers eat and daughters' health.
Newsweek | September 12, 2024

Essay: To fix climate anxiety (and also climate change), we first have to fix individualism

UCR's Jade Sasser describes the explosion that erupted in her research methods seminar last year when she started a discussion about climate change and the future. 
The Los Angeles Times | September 11, 2024

California’s Housing and Wildfire Crises Are on a Collision Course

Bruce Babcock with UCR's School of Public Policy in the Wall Street Journal discussing wildfire impacts on housing construction in California.
The Wall Street Journal | August 31, 2024