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Hailing Jin and Mary Droser

National Academy of Sciences welcomes two UCR faculty members

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) welcomes two UC Riverside professors as new members: Mary Droser, distinguished professor of earth and planetary sciences, and Hailing Jin, Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair of microbiology and plant pathology.

By Jules Bernstein | May 2, 2025 | Science / Technology, University
Woman writing her New Year's resolutions

Will you keep your New Year’s resolutions?

A UC Riverside psychologist shares his thoughts on how to make them last

By Iqbal Pittalwala | January 6, 2025 | Social Science / Education
Child moving into an MRI scan machine

Minoritized groups face high anxiety when taking part in research experiments

Preadolescent girls used an MRI scanner in UC Riverside-led study

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 1, 2024 | Social Science / Education
Norco CRC filling out UCR applications

UCR to offer BA degree to students in the Norco state prison

UC Riverside will offer a Bachelor of Arts program within the confines of the Norco California Rehabilitation Center, a prison about 50 east of Los Angeles.

By David Danelski | February 14, 2024 | Social Science / Education, Students
lecturer

Diversity statements in UC faculty hirings is questioned

Use of diversity statements in faculty hiring can come into conflict with academic freedom protections, say the authors of a new paper published by the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education.

By David Danelski | October 23, 2023 | Social Science / Education
AI conceptual

Faculty members discuss AI’s possible impacts at UCR

UCR faculty members from different disciplines discuss how artificial intelligence or AI is expected to create a paradigm shift in higher education instruction.

By David Danelski | October 3, 2023 | Social Science / Education, Science / Technology, University
Grid of 2023 graduates

Celebrating UCR’s Class of 2023

Most of the students from the Class of 2023 started this journey in fall 2019 — the last quarter of pandemic-free existence. Just months after they stepped onto UC Riverside’s campus, they exchanged classroom numbers for Zoom links and ventured through their first year of higher education without traditional support...

By Malinn Loeung | May 31, 2023 | Students, University
Senior citizen driving a car

Older adults are more easily distracted

While engaged in a physical task requiring effort, such as driving a car or carrying grocery bags, older adults are more likely than younger adults to be distracted by items irrelevant to the task at hand, a University of California, Riverside, study reports. The study assessed the interaction between physical...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | May 10, 2023 | Social Science / Education
Simon Tam- group photo of The Slants band. (Photo courtesy of Simon Tam)

Free concert launches Dean’s Speaker Series at UC Riverside 

Among other events, the series features Simon Tam, an author, musician, and activist who won a landmark Supreme Court case in 2017.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | April 13, 2023 | University
Kalina Michalska and community members

Researcher-community partnership uses collaborative process to yield novel insights

Until recently, psychologist Kalina Michalska had never used community-based participatory research, or CBPR, in her work, but now she can’t imagine not using it. CBPR, which dates to the early 1930s, is an intensive research approach that involves partnerships between researchers and community members throughout the research process, giving communities...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 17, 2023 | Social Science / Education
Celebrity and fans

Celebrity sightings have a built-in contradiction

UC Riverside research helps explain a tradeoff in human behavior

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 8, 2023 | Social Science / Education
Robot hand on keyboard

Is ChatGPT a threat to education?

UC Riverside experts share thoughts on the AI-powered language model that understands and responds to natural language

By Iqbal Pittalwala | January 24, 2023 | Science / Technology
For the first time, 22 Southern California community newspapers will be archived, digitized, and available for the world. The project is led by UC Riverside's Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, made possible via a John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation grant. (UCR/Stan Lim)

22 Southern California newspapers will be preserved, digitized, and available to the public

A John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation grant will help preserve 150 years of local journalism at UC Riverside.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | October 17, 2022 | University
Precrastination

Do you act before you think or think before you act?

UC Riverside psychologists’ experiments explain which choice rules daily life

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 5, 2022 | Social Science / Education

What guides our attention to faces in videos changes with age

UC Riverside study has implications for children’s television and autism spectrum disorder

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 15, 2022 | Social Science / Education

Who benefits from brain training and why?

Joint UC Riverside and UC Irvine study shows “near transfer” predicts “far transfer”

By Iqbal Pittalwala | June 20, 2022 | Social Science / Education, Science / Technology
"Forbidden City" cover

‘Forbidden City’ shines light on Mao Zedong’s dancing girls

Vanessa Hua’s latest novel "Forbidden City" explores the little-known history and influence of the teenage revolutionaries in Chairman Mao’s inner circle

By Jessica Weber | May 18, 2022 | Arts / Culture
A young woman smokes a cigarette

Different parental messages about race and ethnicity have different effects on teens’ drug use

Study finds promoting appreciation of ethnic-racial heritage has the potential to bolster youth’s internal resources against substance use

By Holly Ober | May 4, 2022 | Social Science / Education
Amir Zaki, UC Riverside professor with the Department of Art. (Photo courtesy of Amir Zaki)

Amir Zaki publishes 23 years of photography in new monograph, ‘Building+Becoming’ 

The book weaves stories that capture both nature and architecture. It goes on sale on April 26

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | April 20, 2022 | Arts / Culture
A well-dressed man smokes a cigar

Smoking reduces wealth’s tendency to increase life expectancy

Smoking dominates other factors, including amount of wealth, in shortening lifespan

By Holly Ober | April 8, 2022 | Social Science / Education
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