Psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky says acts of kindness promote social connection, which is especially important during the pandemic as people have become more isolated.
Professor of Public Policy Richard Carpiano has a long research record on anti-vaccine movements. He discusses them with Univrersity of Colorado's Jennifer Reich on this episode of The Annex Sociology Podcast.
Evolutionary biologist Joel Sachs and plant pathologist Gabriel Ortiz find that planting blaci-eyed peas in rotation with other crops could help growers avoid the need for costly, environmentally damaging fertilizers.
Erica Hodgin, co-director of the Civic Engagement Research Group, says a State Seal of Civic Engagement can have a beneficial effect on California's public school students, encouraging democratic behavior and values.
Phillip Sternes, a PhD candidate at UCR, was the lead author of a study showing there are currently no scientific means to support or refute the accuracy of previously published body forms of the Megalodon.
Phillip Sternes, UCR organismal biologist, led a team of researchers who concluded that all current theories about the giant, extinct Megalodon shark's body can only be theories, since no definitive proof about its shape yet exists.
Earth’s deadly megalodon is a popular villain in Hollywood sci-fi, but new research led by UCR organismal biologist Phillip Sternes says that, actually, we have no idea what these animals looked like.
UC Riverside organismal biologist Phillip Sternes leads a study that pokes holes in previous theories about what the extinct, massive Magalodon shark may have looked like.
Ayana Omilade Flewellen, assistant professor of anthropology, belongs to a tiny group (less than 1%) within the archeology community — Black archeologists — and is one of a handful of Black female-born maritime archeologists who dive off the coast of St. Croix in the Caribbean and the Great Lakes in Michigan, scouring for wreckage of ships that carried enslaved people.
Philosophy Professor Eric Schwitzgebel argues that a dismissive attitude toward concerns regarding COVID-19 makes them 'COVID jerks,' and offers suggestions for how to do better for others.
In response to the pandemic, UCR created Rooms for Increasing Student Engagement, or RISE - 110 high-tech classrooms equipped with cameras to live stream as well as microphones that can pick up student voices in every corner of the class.
Myisha Cherry, UCR assistant professor of philosophy, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the fight against racism means breaking rules and making people angry.
Ahmed Eldawy, UCR assistant professor of computer science, along with a few researchers from other universities, has been working on a project compiling a decades' worth of data related to wildfires into one database - a massive endeavor.
Parasitologist Adler Dillman dubbed a new tarantula-killing nematode species, "Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi," after Daniels' character Dr. Ross Jennings from the 1990 film Arachnophobia.
Parasitologist Adler Dillman named a new species of tarantula-attacking nematode Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi in appreciation of Jeff Daniels, the lead actor in the 1990 sci-fi thriller Arachnophobia.
Jade Sasser, associate professor of gender and sexuality studies, and author of On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change, says it's understandable that the climate crisis can feel overwhelming to many prospective parents.
Mehdi Nemati, who studies issues relating to water resources, says wealthier Californians did not conserve as much as others during the last drought even when the state mandated it. Officials are now threatening to restrict the flow to customers who repeatedly fail to conserve.
One-third of all UCR classrooms were upgraded before the fall term with new technology, including microphones and cameras, to allow for the possibility of mixing in-person students with remote students. The campus paid for the upgrades using federal Covid relief aid.