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UC Riverside and CARB partner to train tomorrow’s environmental leaders
The California Air Resources Board formalizes agreements offering classes, facility tours, and more to Riverside schools
Blackstone LaunchPad lands at UC Riverside
A series of campus programs for undergraduates including workshops, networking events, and one-on-one mentoring will start this fall
New lab is California’s best defense against deadly citrus disease
California citrus growers and UC Riverside joined forces to combat Huanglongbing
Bigger data, better materials
UC Riverside-led project combines physics-based modeling and machine learning to discover new materials for more efficient chemical separation and better lithium ion batteries
National Science Foundation renews support of AsterixDB
The ongoing collaboration between UC Riverside and UC Irvine has produced a one-of-a-kind open source database system
Two engineers receive University of California grants for cancer research
Yanran Li and Joshua Morgan will investigate bioengineered approaches toward treating cancer
UC Riverside engineering ranked in top 30 for salary potential
Bourns College ranks #30 in PayScale's ranking of 415 engineering programs across the nation
Data-driven discovery of one-dimensional materials
Balandin and Bartels receive $1.12 million grant to discover new van der Waals materials
Guillermo Aguilar elevated to Mexican National Academy of Engineering
Aguilar specializes in biomedical optics and lasers and is developing a ceramic “Window to the Brain” with Mexican colleagues
Electrical engineer receives the Faculty Research Lecturer Award
Bir Bhanu is a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns Endowed Presidential Chair in Engineering
New group of light pulses for a faster internet
Dissipative pure quartic solitons carry similar amounts of power at different frequencies, making them particularly suitable for power-efficient high-data-rate optical communication
Balandin receives Brillouin Medal for graphene phonon research
Alexander Balandin, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, has received the Brillouin Medal from the International Phononics Society
UC Riverside students analyzed county’s homeless survey data
Riverside County received some welcome help from UC Riverside with the 2019 point-in-time count of homeless residents
Engineering professor receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Luat Vuong, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a prestigious Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award.
Irrigation specialist receives USDA New Investigator Award
Amir Haghverdi, an assistant cooperative extension specialist of irrigation and water management in the environmental sciences department, has been awarded a nearly $500,000 Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement New Investigator grant by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture
Entrepreneurs win innovation award
A team of UC Riverside mechanical engineering doctoral students received the notable “Spirit of I-Corps” award to cap the meeting of the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps, or I-Corps, 2019 San Francisco winter cohort
Climate scientist is a Sloan Fellow
Wei Liu, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for his work to improve our understanding of the ocean’s role in climate change and climate variability
Albert Wang Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Albert Wang, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside, has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for his patents on design-for-reliability for integrated circuits and systems
UCR School of Business Awarded Re-Accreditation by Distinguished AACSB International
The UCR School of Business has been awarded re-accreditation by the distinguished Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB international)
Electronic Nose Startup Gets Whiff of Success
Chromanose chosen for National Science Foundation Innovation Corps entrepreneurial support