Content Authored by: Iqbal Pittalwala

The role of student-run free clinics in developing medical students’ leadership abilities

Perspective article focuses on the Coachella Valley Free Clinic

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Blending art and science with UCR physicist Nathaniel Gabor

At Palm Springs Art Museum, Nathaniel Gabor discussed how creativity helps explain particles emerging from waves

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Clinical psychologist presented with lifetime achievement award

Thomas E. Brown is an expert on ADHD

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Cub scouts learn physics on campus

Local cub scouts who visited campus on Nov. 3 got an early education in physics and astronomy. The two-hour event was arranged by Robert Sanderson, an instructional lab manager and lecture demonstration specialist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. “We had almost 30 scouts in attendance, and the kids and their parents all were smiling from...

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Physicist elected chair of international nuclear physics experiment’s council

Kenneth Barish’s two-year term begins in March 2025

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School of Medicine awarded $250,000 PCORI Engagement Award

Project addresses mental health disparities faced by Latinx and Indigenous Mexican communities in the US

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UCR team to participate in national undergraduate research program

Five-month program focuses on developing participants’ communication and advocacy skills

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DOE renewal grant funds student research

Researchers will work at Brookhaven National Laboratory to uncover internal structure of protons

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UCR physicists receive DOE grants as early career scientists

Miguel Arratia and Shawn Westerdale have each been awarded $875,000 over five years

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NSF funds instrumentation in lab linked to LIGO research

Physicist Jon Richardson is grant’s principal investigator

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Breastmilk collection depot opens at UCR Health

Depot is first UC Health affiliate to partner with UC Health Milk Bank

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Astronomers use hands-on demo to explain infrared radiation to the public

Love for astronomy begins in childhood. With that in mind, three UC Riverside astronomers gave a presentation on August 3 to hundreds of children on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi on what infrared radiation is and how telescopes use it. Infrared radiation is part of the electromagnetic spectrum that exists between visible light and radio waves...

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Aerosols from u-cigarettes are at least as harmful as those from e-cigarettes

UC Riverside and Portland State University researchers evaluated four SURGE u-cigarette flavor variants

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Experimental Cosmology Center draws Congressman Mark Takano to campus

UCR physicists discuss how the center will benefit the Inland Empire

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School of Medicine Pathway Program wins national recognition

The California Medicine Scholars Program has received the Insight Into Diversity magazine 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

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Division of Biomedical Sciences begins its 50th anniversary celebration

The division originated the idea of establishing a medical school on campus

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Summer Physics Academy brings back an alumna to campus

Christina Manzano was one of two community college teachers attending the weeklong workshop

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Sophomore wins UCR neuroscience award

The Austin and Helen Riesen Neuroscience Award is given to the top undergraduate student in the neuroscience program

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