Jennifer Nájera, an associate professor of ethnic studies at UCR, discusses linguistic discrimination that Mexican, Spanish-speaking children in Texas, California and the U.S. Southwest experience in public school situations.
Qingfang Wang, a UCR professor of public policy, says more Americans are embracing entrepreneurship.
“There are more than 33 million small businesses in America,” she said. “The most recent years have seen a record-breaking new business application in the United States.”
Alexander de la Vega, a postdoctoral researcher at UCR, co-authored a study published in Nature that details a galaxy closely resembling the Milky Way. “This is surprising because galaxies were much more chaotic in the early universe and very few had similar structures to the Milky Way," he said.
Cal State East Bay is offering certification programs for people interested in working in the cannabis industry. The courses were made possible through a partnership with Green Flower, a company that builds cannabis curriculum and has 24 partnerships with local government, business leaders and educational institutions across the U.S., including UC Riverside.
While Jupiter may be our planetary guardian angel, protecting us from harm, new research from UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane shows gas giants in other solar systems might actually wreak havoc on other exoplanets nearby.
UCR parasitology professor Adler Dillman joined the Something Offbeat podcast to talk about the discovery of a worm in a woman's brain, and the connection that discovery has to her diet.
Artificial intelligence is a gamechanger. It’s also a water guzzler, according to new research from Shoalei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. He learned that data processing centers consume great volumes of water.
Ian Wheeldon, chemical and environmental engineering professor, and Sean Cutler, professor of plant cell biology, engineered plants to turn bright red when the come into contact with a dangerous chemical in the environment. They hope to be able to use their work to make tests for many kinds of chemicals.
The new, $36 million student health clinic at UCR aims to provide a wide array of medical and mental health services in an attractive building that showcases views of nearby mountains. Beyond serving Riverside students, it may become a national model of how campuses are investing more resources to keep their students physically and emotionally well in the post-pandemic era, experts say.
Steven Brint, UCR sociology professor, and Komi Frey, director of faculty outreach for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, published a paper arguing that the use of diversity, equity and inclusion statements on 10 UC campuses as a screening mechanism for hiring faculty puts values like social justice ahead of academic freedom.
John Martin Fischer, distinguished UCR philosophy professor, argues that we have the capacity for good behavior and should be held to moral standards despite some factors that push us in one direction or another.
Cathy Gudis, UCR history professor, co-curated an exhibit at the Riverside Art Museum with her students and two environmental justice groups. It explores the effects of San Bernardino and Riverside counties having the most concentrated cluster of warehouses in the world.
UCR's Haizhou Liu is using "deep UV" – extremely low wavelengths (below 220nm) of ultraviolet light – to break PFAS down under ambient conditions without producing secondary waste. UCR environmental microbiologist Yujie Men is also developing microbes that could biodegrade PFAS.
Playwright and UCR Professor Rickerby Hinds has adapted the autobiographical story of abolitionist turned magician Henry “Box” Brown for the stage. The story covers what Brown endured while enslaved until he decided to ship himself to freedom in a three feet long by two feet tall and two feet wide wooden box.
Hoori Ajami, associate professor of groundwater hydrology, and a former UCR doctoral student, Sanghyun Lee, devised a new method of determining the beginning, ending, and severity of droughts that affect streams and rivers. Using 30 years of data from more than 350 locations around the U.S., they found that drought often persists in these waterways for years despite a year of heavy rainfall.
Danielle Stevenson, a PhD candidate in environmental toxicology at UCR, is working with an indoor mushroom farm to take its spent mushroom fruiting blocks and introduce them in contaminated sites throughout Los Angeles to measure levels of toxins the mycelium have absorbed from the soil.
In time for Halloween, residents in the Bay Area and Central California are seeing clumps of web-like substances hanging from trees or drifting in the wind. They are most likely baby spiders, but Rick Vetter, retired Department of Entomology research associate, says Los Angeles area residents are not likely to see these same clumps.