If you’re a US researcher, now is the time to establish a plan B, says UCR’s Brandon Brown. The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths.
UCR's Adam Jozwiak leads a team of researchers who argue that despite how controversial it might sound, tomatoes in the Galápagos actually seem to be evolving backwards, not forwards.
UC Riverside professor Kevin Esterling, creator of Prytaneum, talks about an AI-powered webinar platform built to foster inclusive, deliberative public discourse. Inspired by ancient democratic principles, Prytaneum enables real-time audience participation and AI synthesis of diverse viewpoints—reshaping how civic engagement happens online.
But new research, led by UCR's Juan Pablo Giraldo, shows that once nanoparticles -- which are everywhere -- enter a plant cell, they can change in unexpected ways and interfere with the plant’s ability to photosynthesize.
UCR's Shaolei Ren is a primary source for a Business Insider investigative article on the true cost of the U.S. data center boom, in water, power, pollution, and tax incentives.
Article highlights the work of Megan Robbins, UCR associate psychology professor, who has demonstrated that women discuss social topics more than men, and that the gossip is often more positive than one might assume.
The implementation of dairy digesters on farms could reduce methane emissions by approximately 80 percent, according to a study led by UCR climate scientist Francesca Hopkins.
Blanca Peto, UCR entomology doctoral student, observed that bumble bee queens take surprising pauses in their egg-laying cycle — likely as a crucial strategy to preserve their energy and ensure colony survival.
University of California Riverside microbiologist Michael Allen did an experiment with gophers after Mt. St. Helens blew in 1980. The creatures spent one day on ground destroyed by the eruption, and 40 years later, the recovery they initiated was still detectable.
Bob Allen, UCR climatology professor, is lead author on a study showing replanting lost trees can cool the planet more than scientists previously realized. However, it can't totally offset warming from human emissions.
Alfonso Gonzales Toribio, an ethnic studies professor at UCR, who has written about Latino immigrant rights movements, said that right now, immigrants are motivated by pride to wave flags from their homeland at protests.
S. Jack Hu, a senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Georgia, takes the helm at UC Riverside in July. He has deep experience in leading research enterprises and guiding outreach to students from rural and low-income communities.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection may go dark due to budget cuts. Housed at the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research on UCR's campus, the digital archive provides access to more than 16 million newspaper pages, covering over 100 years of California history. It is the single most comprehensive digital archive of the state’s press since 1846.