Mary Lu Arpaia is a horticultural specialist with UC Riverside’s cooperative extension and she’s one of the inventors of the new Luna variety of avocado. Her name is on the pending patent, and The Show spoke with her about it.
Some future Riverside Community College District students will have the chance to live on the UC Riverside campus in a “first-of-its-kind housing project.” In addition to creating more housing, officials hope it will introduce students in the district — which includes Riverside City, Moreno Valley and Norco colleges — to life at a four-year university and potentially encourage transfers.
Jennifer Doyle, UCR English professor, writes about how the best way to honor the Spanish team that just won the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup is for the president of Spain's football federation to resign. The president, Luis Rubiales, is dogged by corruption scandals, complaints about the federation’s treatment of the national team and anger at the way he and his federation undermine women’s leagues in Spain.
Sharing the wealth in terms of federal research dollars would improve the quality of education for many students and increase U.S. competitiveness, wrote UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox.
Many people don’t know the difference between wild and domestic bees, further obscuring both the troubles faced by many wild species and their value, says Hollis Woodard, a UCR entomologist.
Dividing the future into “semesters” — traditionally 15 to 17 weeks long at American colleges — can help people plan incremental objectives in service of a larger goal, according to Rachel Wu, an associate UCR professor of psychology. It can also help older people feel younger by remembering their college years.
Story features UCR botanists Mary Lu Arpaia and Eric Focht’s newly released Luna UCR avocado breed, which boasts a “sweet, sort of floral characteristic.”
Richard Rodríguez, a UCR professor of English, writes about post-punk music and why despite some thoughts to the contrary, the music does not erase but enhances Latinx fans' identities.
While past studies have linked fracking to earthquakes, UCR seismologist Abhi Ghosh and his colleagues now say the drilling method is also a source of even small seismic tremors.
The Luna, a new avocado breed developed by UCR agricultural scientists Mary Lu Arpaia and Eric Focht, features a rind that turns a tell-tale black when ripe.
Lynn Sweet, UCR research ecologist, joins the Air Talk show to discuss how wildfires increasing in frequency and severity are threatening native plants, including Joshua trees.
Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder and director of AAPI Data, a policy research center at UCR, says that people coming from more authoritarian regimes left for a reason, and that it is therefore not surprising they may hold negative views of their countries of origin.
The model with which large employers like Amazon subcontract work to other companies is becoming increasingly common, said Ellen Reese, chair of the labor studies program at UCR Riverside. Under this structure, Reese said, it becomes more difficult for workers to exercise their rights and bargain collectively with their employers.
After a half-century of breeding and development, UCR has released the Luna avocado. Mary Lu Arpaia, a UC Cooperative Extension horticulturist based at UC Riverside and a co-inventor of the Luna UCR said the fruit has very good storage quality, and it ripens very well.
Susan Straight, a novelist and distinguished professor of creative writing at UCR, reflects on the ways botanical garden intertwine with her family’s memories.
The environmental impact of large, power-hungry AIs could be reduced by better distributing the demands to different locations, according to Shaolei Ren, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.