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UC Riverside student-led startup vies for $25,000 in national pitch competition
Saru Recycling will compete in LaunchPad’s annual competition at Startup Grind’s Global Conference
Book on heterosexuality receives prestigious award
Jane Ward's book, "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality," has won a 2021 PROSE Award
UC Riverside Life Sciences Incubator goes live
Drug delivery and genomic sequencing startups are the first tenants
Nael Abu-Ghazaleh made ACM Distinguished Member
The Association for Computing Machinery recognized him "For Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing.”
New Master of Science in Business Analytics at UC Riverside
The program, offered jointly by the School of Business and the Department of Statistics, launches in fall 2021
Bir Bhanu named a National Academy of Inventors fellow
Bhanu holds 18 U.S. and international patents with several others pending
Suveen Mathaudhu receives Brimacombe Medal
The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society conferred the award for exemplary contributions to the science of nanocrystalline materials, education of the public, and service to the profession
Poorest Inland Empire communities have highest fine particulate matter exposure
San Bernardino study participants had highest exposure to PM2.5 in their own homes
Cengiz Ozkan receives Turkey’s highest scientific award
The TUBITAK Scientific Research Award is given for pioneering accomplishments
Electro-magnetic capacitors could eventually rival gasoline for energy storage
Incorporating a magnetic field could help capacitors store more energy without breaking down
Mechanical engineering chair named ASME fellow
Guillermo Aguilar has joined the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ 2020 class of fellows
Two BCOE professors join DOE Energy Frontier Research Center
Alexander Balandin’s Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials Center will contribute to the Ultra EFRC’s research efforts by investigating acoustic phonons and thermal conduction in wide-band gap materials
CE-CERT Receives IEEE ITS Society Institutional Lead Award
The award recognizes CE-CERT's leadership in developing environmental technologies to improve transportation, air quality, and energy efficiency
Yanran Li receives NIH New Innovator Award
High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program grant will support efforts to produce plant natural products in yeast
First endowed fund for a student organization supports Black engineers
The fund will support in perpetuity UCR’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers
FarmSense moves to Entrepreneurship World Cup finals
The UC Riverside startup won second place in the U.S. and will compete for $500,000 in October
Mark Hatch joins UC Riverside professor’s energy startup as CEO
Known as “The Godfather of the Maker Movement,” Hatch has raised tens of millions of dollars in investments for technology startups
UC Riverside MBA program receives STEM designation
International students can apply for optional professional training that allows for three years of U.S. employment after graduation
Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz receives Hellman Fellowship
The award will support development of scalable technology to recycle plastic waste into the precursors of valuable fuels and chemicals
Eleven UC Riverside professors receive prestigious NSF CAREER Awards
Seven of the awards went to women