Brandon Brown is an associate professor in the School of Medicine at UC Riverside
New research from UC Riverside shows, contrary to previous scientific belief, a hormone required for sexual maturity in insects cannot travel across the blood-brain barrier unless aided by a transporter protein. The finding may soon allow scientists to prevent disease-spreading mosquitoes from maturing, or to boost reproduction in beneficial bumblebees.
UC Riverside has helped the city become a testing ground for the technology of the future
New York Times columnist David Leonhardt will offer the Feb. 27 Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture, which will take place between 4-6 p.m. at the UC Riverside Extension Center.
UC Riverside-led research has applications in ultrafast and spin-based nanoscale devices
The film premieres this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival .
The UC Riverside entrepreneurs are in the running for $10 million in funding
New technology can find the safest way to store and dispose of reactive chemicals
UC Riverside is one the universities making it easier for new discoveries to benefit the public
The 43rd annual Writers Week, California’s longest-running free literary event, is heading to UC Riverside, bringing a diverse array of emerging and established authors to the Inland Empire Feb. 10-14.
A UC Riverside-led survey of cluster hires at universities across the country reveals the widespread practice could be refined
New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression.
NIH grant of $2.2 million could help researchers target two oncogenes, potentially leading to therapies for melanoma, lung cancer, and other tumors
A UC Riverside student leads voter registration campaign to get classmates to the polls.
New research from UC Riverside identifies a protein that controls plant growth — good news for an era in which crops can get crushed by climate change.
UC Riverside research can improve car cabin air quality and help you choose your next car
Additional ongoing funding would help the medical school expand enrollment
In the past six years, UC Riverside's six-year graduation rate has improved by 10 percentage points
An L.A. Times feature by higher education writer Teresa Watanabe describes UCR as a "living laboratory" in which to study how well students with high grades but low SAT scores fare in college. UCR has the second-lowest SAT scores in the UC system for its entering freshmen. But Times research...
UC Riverside research is supported by a four-year grant worth more than $1.2 million
