UCR geology professor Mary Droser's pioneering work in the Australian Outback has helped establish a new national park there, where visitors can see fossilized remains of Earth's oldest animals.
Christiane Weirauch, UCR entomologist, believes that although tool use is often thought of as a sign of high intelligence, this isn’t always the case. She argues that tool use could be genetically hardwired as well as have some element of learning. "We are looking at a gradient, with some animals such as assassin bugs being closer to the genetically hardwired and others, such as primates and octopuses, incorporating more learning into their tool use," she said.
In remote places, hiking off trails isn’t going to destroy the wildflowers forever since seeds can lie dormant in the soil for many years. However, UCR plant ecologist Loralee Larios says that in highly visited locations, so many people walk off trail that within a few weeks, only a few patches of wildflowers remain. That means fewer flowers will return during the next potential superbloom.
The Inland Empire has a doctor shortage, but a program at UCR intends to help solve the problem. “A huge push with this initiative is to really get more doctors into primary care, which fits right into our UCR School of Medicine mission for more homegrown physicians who want to be addressing that shortage,” said Teresa Cofield, director of Pathway Programs at the UCR School of Medicine.
Farmland is almost certainly going to shrink in the coming years, said Kurt Schwabe, an economist who studies water and agriculture at UCR. Should farmers grow less food, consumers will likely feel the pain.
David Brady, a UCR professor of public policy, led a study estimating roughly 180,000 poverty-related deaths among people over the age of 15 in 2019—a total only surpassed by deaths from heart disease, cancer, and smoking that year.
UCR professor of public policy David Brady, who led a study about the causes of death in America, said, “Poverty kills as much as dementia, accidents, stroke, Alzheimer's, and diabetes."
Poverty is the nation’s fourth leading cause of death, killing an estimated 183,000 Americans aged 15 and up in 2019, according to new findings of a study led by David Brady, a professor of public policy at UCR.
A team of researchers, led by Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology Associate Professor Jun-Hyeong Cho, has used Pavlonian conditioning to discover where memories of associations with fearful experiences are stored in the brain.
Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes talks with UCR Distinguished Professor of Education Jan Blacher, the co-author of a new study about high rates of expulsions from preschools for autistic kids.
Where and when you see an image should help you determine whether it’s real, says Amit Roy-Chowdhury, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of California, Riverside.
New research from UCR ecologists Marko Spasojevic and Tesa Madsen-Hepp shows one of the hottest, driest places in North America is changing in ways that might one day leave stretches of arid land barren.
Tesa Madsen-Hepp, a UCR botanist and Ph.D. student, led research offering evidence that desert ecosystems, long perceived as the most resilient to climate change, may be hitting their limits.
The UCR School of Medicine has accepted its first class of California Medicine Scholars. This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education.
The OC Register highlights the work that UCR genetics professor Julia Bailey-Serres is doing with the Center for Plant Cell Biology to make staple foods more resilient to climate change.
Theodore Garland, Jr., a UCR evolutionary biologist, has shown in an ongoing experiment launched in 1993 that some variability in motivation or ability to do hard exercise is related to genetics.
When a tattoo is stamped onto skin, the body considers it an assault. The skin is the immune system’s “first barrier,” and is heavily stocked with fast-acting defensive cells that can leap into action when it’s breached, says Juliet Morrison, a virologist at UC Riverside.
UCR's Center for Plant Cell Biology, directed by Professor Julia Bailey-Serres, is leading research into such topics as how to increase yields of crops like rice and tomatoes, and how to make them more resistant to pests.
Paul D'Anieri, a UCR political science professor and the author of "Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War," says the battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut will ultimately look like a big miscalculation either for the Ukranians or the Russians.