Research to focus on small molecule that can help fight breast cancer
UC Riverside and City of Hope awarded Department of Defense grants for the collaborative project
Grant addresses needs of students struggling in mathematics
Project led by UCR’s Asha Jitendra is supported by nearly $1.4 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences
Grant funds study of sexual abuse in religious communities
Supported by $550,000, a team of researchers led by UCR's Amanda Lucia will examine why and how sexual abuse persists across a range of religious traditions
Grant to physicist gives study of strongly interacting systems a boost
A physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has received a grant of about $523,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the possible emergent behavior of “strongly interacting systems,” an important area of focus in solid-state physics. Specifically, when the repulsive Coulomb force between electrons in a solid...
New NASA-funded program to train K-12 students in STEM fields
Outreach components include public lectures, parent nights, and telescope viewing opportunities
4 UCR graduate students win grants to do research in the natural reserves
Projects include the study of aquatic insect communities, bumble bees, and the impact of climate change on plants
Generous funding to malaria-parasite researcher promises new therapeutic strategies
UC Riverside’s Karine Le Roch is principal investigator on two NIH grants
Psychologist to explore how brain remembers precise information
A person’s general intelligence and ability to understand language are reliant on the brain’s ability to maintain precise information acquired over a short period of time. To understand how these types of natural vision and cognitive functions are achieved in both healthy populations and individuals at high risk for psychosis,...
New funding to significantly boost cancer, ALS research
UC Riverside’s Maurizio Pellecchia receives grants totaling nearly $2.5 million from National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke