Andrea Polonijo, medical sociologist, discusses how low-income, Black and Latino Californians are dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than high-income and non-Latino whites – and how analyses suggest these gaps are widening.
UC Riverside geneticist Hailing Jin's discovery of a peptide in an obscure Australian fruit has the potential to prevent and treat a disease that destroys citrus trees.
We might want to blame Jupiter for the lack of other habitable planets around our own sun, according to a new study led by UC Riverside astrobiologist Stephen Kane.
People around the country have been receiving mysterious packets of seeds in the mail. Plant physiologist Milt McGiffen explains why it's a bad idea to put these seeds in the ground.
In the most far-reaching study of its kind, UC Riverside's Daniel Lee discusses teaming with researchers from 62 countries to prove that people experience everyday situations more similarly than previously thought.
Hailing Jin, professor of plant pathology, talks about how she found a treatment for a disease that devastates citrus orchards. It comes from a molecule in the Australian finger lime, sometimes referred to as "vegetarian caviar."
Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy, comments on the rapid development of enormous commercial warehouses in the Inland Empire, the coronavirus risks they pose to workers, and how the Central Valley is poised to experience similar development.
Speaking with EdSource, Emily Engelschall, interim associate vice-chancellor of enrollment services and director of undergraduate admissions, says the number of students who will enroll at UCR in the fall is close to being on track with previous years' numbers.
Rita Kohli, an associate professor of education, discusses the experiences of teachers of color and her work as co-founder of the annual Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice.
Scott Allen, a professor emeritus in the School of Medicine, co-writes a piece advocating for an end to family separation and the detention of immigrant families with minor children.
Spectrum News speaks with Steven Hackel, a professor of history, about the San Gabriel Mission's "complicated and contentious legacy" in the wake of a fire that damaged its roof and interior.
A team of UC Riverside researchers led by Hailing Jin, a professor of plant genetics, has developed an antibiotic treatment for citrus greening disease using a peptide found in Australian finger limes.
Professor of Economics Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera weighs in on the conditions that will need to occur for an Inland Empire economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
According to a study co-authored by UCR's Weiwei Zhang, an associate professor of psychology, the amount of information your working memory can hold could be key to your compliance with recommended social distancing guidelines.