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As many gather for Earth Day 2021, A UC Riverside ecologist urges caution toward solar geoengineering, an increasingly popular solution to the climate crisis.
Even as vaccinations across the U.S. were ramping up due to the popularity and availability of the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the CDC called a timeout due to reports of serious blood clots
T he vaccine passport is coming. The likelihood of a “passport” being required — or perhaps just requested — for travel, and to return to school and work, seems a certainty. New York state is testing a smartphone app that would verify vaccine status for entry into events. IBM is...
Immunity generated by vaccination is better than immunity from an actual infection, says an expert
C OVID-19 is far from beaten. Vaccines may not be the ultimate panacea to haul us out of the pandemic crisis. In the future, will outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, arrive in waves every winter? Might COVID-19 never go away? Experts at the University of California, Riverside...
A computer scientist explains how our online behavior drives us into echo chambers
UC Riverside public health expert Richard Carpiano weighs in on ethical matters for vaccine distribution.
UC Riverside epidemiologist answers this and other questions in Q&A
Dr. David Lo at the UC Riverside School of Medicine is an expert on vaccines
Meeting virtually with people outside your household is safest, says UC Riverside epidemiologist
World Bee Day is May 20. To mark the occasion, we gathered some of UC Riverside’s top bee experts to answer questions submitted on our Instagram page. The response created, for lack of a better term, quite a buzz! We got so many questions — hundreds — that we could...
UC Riverside biomedical scientist Marcus Kaul explains
Economist Gloria González-Rivera offers insight on how to limit damage
Though no proven treatment for COVID-19 currently exists, UC Riverside virologist Juliet Morrison feels there’s a good chance one will emerge. Morrison, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, investigates the science behind promising avenues for new antiviral therapies. She explains what those are and weighs...
In hard-hit Europe, responses to COVID-19 could be lessons for the global community, says political economist Jana Grittersova
Nineteen UCR authors offer their top picks for books to read while sheltering in place
Brandon Brown is an associate professor in the Center for Healthy Communities in the School of Medicine
Sociologist Richard M. Carpiano weighs in on some of the less obvious ways COVID-19 could restructure life as we know it
Political scientist Kim Yi Dionne explains why responses to COVID-19 reveal a failure to learn from history
State and federal officials are asking Americans to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic. So is it possible to find an entertaining activity that provides a small respite from our larger societal worries? Derek Burrill, associate professor of media and cultural studies at UC Riverside, has created a list of...
