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.
Alfonso Gonzales Toribio, ethnic studies professor and director of UCR's Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center, comments on the Avocado Heights activists who are mobilizing their equestrian community to fight expansion and preserve their rural way of life.
UCR psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky outlines the three buckets that tend to be linked to happiness in this article about making the most of your time off.
UCR professors Erin Wilson Rankin, Quinn McFrederick, Nicole Rafferty, and Hollis Woodard helped establish the Entomology Teaching Garden, which students will use for training and research.
Uma Mazyck Jayakumar, an associate professor in the UCR School of Education, writes about the future of college admissions in light of the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
A report by David Brady, UCR professor of public policy, documenting poverty as a leading cause of death in the U.S., was referenced in this article about how consequential issues to the American public are being ignored by the media.
Ann Cheney, an associate professor in UCR's School of Medicine, discusses the public health crisis at the Salton Sea on the podcast "Science, Quickly."
UCR's School of Medicine is participating in the California Medicine Scholars Program, which targets underrepresented community college students to work in California’s rural and underserved communities.
Mary Lu Arpaia, a professor of extension in subtropical horticulture, led a team that has developed a new variety of avocado that is set for release in June 2023.
David Brady, a professor in the School of Public Policy, weighs in on his research reporting that 500 deaths per day in the country are related to poverty as part of an article about the relaunched Poor People's Campaign.
Andrew C. Sanders, UCR’s Herbarium curator and museum scientist, said the Inland Empire's jacaranda trees have probably benefited from extra rainfall this past year.