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Riverside City council member Clarissa Cervantes se getting into a hydrogen engine car

UC Riverside joins launch of hydrogen carshare program

UC Riverside, in partnership with city and state agencies, has helped launch the nation's only hydrogen-powered carshare program—offering a clean, affordable transportation alternative to Riverside residents. The Riverside Clean Air Carshare, or RCAC , program offers 13 Toyota Mirai sedans equipped with hydrogen fuel cell technology. Participants can reserve a...

By David Danelski | May 6, 2025 | Science / Technology, University
Dean Christopher Lynch and Eamonn Keogh

Recognizing research excellence

Established by a family of UC Riverside alumni, the Ross Family Endowed Term Chair supports innovative teaching and research in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

By Devlin Smith | April 1, 2025 | University
Shaolei Ren gives his TED talk

Professor’s TED Talk warns of AI’s hidden water costs 

While artificial intelligence, or AI, is transforming industries, its environmental impact is often overlooked. Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, took to a TED Talk stage last fall in Vienna, Austria, to discuss a hidden consequence of AI’s rapid expansion. In his talk...

By David Danelski | March 5, 2025 | Science / Technology
Wayne Miller & Georgios Karavalakis

UCR and U of Michigan launch hydrogen-engine alliance

Officials at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), the University of Michigan, and several industry partners launch of the Hydrogen Engine Alliance of North America (H2EA-NA) to promote hydrogen as a viable alternative fuel.

By David Danelski | February 27, 2025 | Science / Technology, Business, University
unhappy woman

Women’s pelvic tissue tears during childbirth unstudied, until now

Millions of women undergo episiotomies during childbirth every year, yet the mechanics behind these surgical cuts remain largely unstudied. A new research project is poised to change that, addressing this significant gap in women’s healthcare.

By Jules Bernstein | January 29, 2025 | Science / Technology
Nanopore sensor

Detecting disease with only a single molecule

UC Riverside scientists have developed a nanopore-based tool that could help diagnose illnesses much faster and with greater precision than current tests allow, by capturing signals from individual molecules.

By Jules Bernstein | January 2, 2025 | Science / Technology
sewage treatment plant

$1.4 million grant awarded to spur water recycling technology

The University of California system has awarded a $1.4 million grant to UC Riverside chemical and environmental engineering professor Haizhou Liu and a collaborative team from several UC campuses to combat water scarcity by developing strategies to clean and reuse water for agriculture. With California facing climate change and dwindling...

By David Danelski | December 17, 2024 | Science / Technology
computer processing center

AI’s deadly air pollution toll

Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electricity to the fast-growing number of computer processing centers. This air pollution, a new UCR and Caltech study estimates, is expected to result in...

By David Danelski | December 9, 2024 | Science / Technology, Business
Graduate students

UC Riverside receives seven grants totaling $7M for graduate education

GAANN fellowships from the Department of Education will support students pursuing research in areas of national need

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 15, 2024 | Science / Technology
hydrogen truck

UCR scientists cut harmful pollution from hydrogen engines

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a low-cost method to significantly reduce nitrogen oxides pollution from hydrogen engines by improving the efficiency of their catalytic converters. As reported in the journal Nature Communications

By David Danelski | October 9, 2024 | Science / Technology
Vehicle charging

UCR experts call for comprehensive electrical grid upgrades 

Significant growth in electricity use in California in the coming decades calls for systemic, well-coordinated, proactive, collaborative, and equitable upgrades to state’s electrical grid

By David Danelski | September 27, 2024 | Science / Technology
Smoke above UCR campus

Q&A: What, exactly, is going up in flames?

Several Southern California communities are being hit with smoke from the huge Line Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains. UC Riverside experts on environmental pollution describe what we’re breathing.

By Jules Bernstein and David Danelski | September 10, 2024 | Science / Technology
IPC compression device

How air-powered computers can prevent blood clots

A new, air-powered computer sets off alarms when certain medical devices fail. The invention is a more reliable and lower-cost way to help prevent blood clots and strokes — all without electronic sensors.

By Jules Bernstein | August 14, 2024 | Science / Technology
meeting of the United Nations

UCR professor to serve on United Nations climate panel

Representing the United States, UCR professor Mihri Ozkan I will provide recommendations to a United Nations panel for emerging research and strategies needed to shape the future of direct air carbon capture technology and "its role in our collective quest for a carbon-neutral society."

By David Danelski | June 26, 2024 | Science / Technology
ion exchange tanks

‘Forever chemical’ discovery can aid drinking water cleanups

A UC Riverside team discovered a chemical process that allows high levels of salt normally found in wastewater from water treatment plants to act as a catalyst that facilitates the breakup of "forever chemical" pollutants. Normally, salt in wastewater impedes the cleanup of chemical pollutants.

By David Danelski | May 30, 2024 | Science / Technology

New ‘forever chemical’ cleanup strategy discovered

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cracks down on insidious “forever chemical” pollution in the environment, military and commercial aviation officials are seeking ways to clean up such pollution from decades of use of fire suppressant foams at military air bases and commercial airports. Fire-suppression foams contain hundreds unhealthful forever...

By David Danelski | May 8, 2024 | Science / Technology
stroke

Federal grant to advance brain stroke research

Kaveh Laksari, a UC Riverside assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was awarded $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop predictive models for stroke treatment strategies using data from patient brain scans.

By David Danelski | April 24, 2024 | Science / Technology
biomass to sportswear

From polluting waste to sportswear

A UCR professor receives $1.45 million federal grant to further develop a chemical process that takes plant waste from wood processing and farming to make fibers for clothing fabrics and other products.

By David Danelski | April 23, 2024 | Science / Technology
lab

Lab merger and expansion to spur innovation

A new UCR laboratory will be formed by merging the existing Nanofabrication Facility with the Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis, or CFAMM, and bringing in about $3 million for new equipment.

By David Danelski | March 19, 2024 | Business, Science / Technology, University
fUSI spinal therapy

Doctors can now watch spinal cord activity during surgery

With technology developed at UC Riverside, scientists can, for the first time, make high resolution images of the human spinal cord. The advancement could help bring real relief to millions suffering chronic back pain.

By Jules Bernstein | March 7, 2024 | Science / Technology
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