Owain J. Graham, doctoral ethnomusicology student, led research on how Perú’s traditional songs, known as icaros, are part of a treatment process for men rehabilitating from drug and alcohol addictions. Combined with traditional Amazonian medicine and psychotherapy, these icaros are used during ayahuasca healing ceremonies at rehabilitation centers in Tarapoto, Perú.
Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and the risk of getting heart disease is even higher for African Americans. Public health professor Mario Sims led a study showing spirituality may help people avoid this killer.
Haizhou Liu led a team of researchers at UCR who discovered the most efficient photochemical process so far to destruct PFAS while not introducing undesirable byproducts.
Several media outlets and talking heads, including UCR professor of gender and sexuality studies Jade Sasser, have encouraged parents to think seriously about having children because human beings risk polluting the world and causing global climate destruction.
Exequiel Ezcurra, an ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, discovered that the Mexica, or Aztecs, used the mountains located in the Basin of Mexico, now known as Mexico City, as a solar observatory. By keeping track of the sunrise against the peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains, they achieved incredible accuracy in monitoring seasonal variations in weather, like dry springs and summer monsoons, and even accounting for leap years.
New research shows the COVID virus can stay on some grocery surfaces for days. Roger Seheult, associate clinical professor at the UCR School of Medicine, weighs in on how COVID lingering on surfaces can infect a body.
James Cornett, a Palm Springs-based ecologist and who’s taught a course on bighorn sheep at UCR, says habitat destruction and climate change have been particularly hard on bighorn sheep and other native animals with dwindling populations.
Researchers at UCR, led by chemical engineer Haizhou Liu, say they have developed a method of breaking up harmful PFAs, which are found in drinking water, into smaller compounds that are essentially harmless.
UC Riverside psychology researcher and gossip expert Megan Robbins weighs in on 2022, a year resplendent with (largely manufactured) celebrity scandal.
Exequiel Ezcurra, distinguished professor of ecology at UCR, led a study showing how the Indigenous peoples in the valley where Mexico City would later arise followed a natural solar calendar that was so accurate it accounted for leap years.
Asian citrus psyllids transmit a disease that can ruin oranges. Even worse, Argentine ants protect them in exchange for the psyllids' delicate ribbons of sugary poop, called honeydew. By studying the ants’ behavior, UCR's Mark Hoddle, found a way to fight the ants leaving the psyllids more exposed to a natural enemy.
Exequiel Ezcurra, UCR ecology professor, led a study showing how the Aztecs, or Mexica people, used the Basin of Mexico as a solar observatory to accurately track the seasons and account for leap years. This in turn enabled them to be highly productive farmers.
KCBS Radio news anchor Holly Quan spoke with Francesca Hopkins, assistant professor of climate change and sustainability at UC Riverside, about how the pollution that has come back after COVID lockdowns is hitting some communities harder than others
Francesca Hopkins, assistant professor of climate change at UCR, co-led a study showing that some areas have continued to benefit from improvements in air quality that began during the pandemic. Those that benefitted are generally wealthier places, while other spots have lost most of the gains, or even gotten slightly worse than they were before.
High school principals reported substantial conflict at their schools over issues like the teaching of race and racism, LGBTQ+ rights and the use of social emotional learning strategies in the classroom, according to “Educating for a Diverse Democracy,” coauthored by the Civic Engagement Research Group at UC Riverside.
Researchers John Rogers from UCLA and UCR’s Joseph Kahne found that high school educators are refraining from teaching topics that could be perceived as controversial. They also found that many considered quitting the profession, and that one-quarter of principals reported an increasing number of incidents of students verbally harassing LGBTQ classmates.
UCR archaeologist Nawa Sugiyama led a team that made a surprising discovery in an ancient Maya capital: the remains of a 1,700-year-old spider monkey, which they suspect was once a state gift between elites.
School of Education Professor Joseph Kahne co-authored a study of 682 high school principals across the U.S., and found extreme political views on both side of the spectrum are taking a toll on public schools students as well as educators.
Scientists have long argued that Earth is currently in the midst of the sixth mass extinction event, losing thousands of plant and animal species each year. However, according to a new study led by the UCR's Mary Droser and her former graduate student Scott Evans now at Virginia Tech, we might in fact be facing the seventh mass extinction.