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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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Gravitational waves hint at dark matter and Big Bang mysteries

Study reports very simple forms of matter could generate detectable gravitational wave backgrounds soon after the Big Bang

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Physicists gain hands-on experience using cyclotron at UC Davis

Team included undergraduate and graduate students

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Graduate students win Dissertation Completion Fellowship Awards

Recipients Wayne Water Vigil Jr. and Giulia Alboreggia are the first graduates with doctoral degrees from the new Biophysics Graduate Program

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Honoring Barry Barish with a day rich in physics

UC Riverside honors the distinguished professor and Nobel laureate for receiving a National Medal of Science

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Fulbright awards will fund students’ research in Hungary and Vietnam

Awardees are Kristen Herbert and Tara Westmor

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Research breakthrough on birth defect affecting brain size

Nonsense-mediated RNA decay, or NMD, is an evolutionarily conserved molecular mechanism in which potentially defective messenger RNAs, or mRNAs (genetic material that instructs the body on how to make proteins), are degraded. Disruption of the NMD pathway can lead to neurological disorders, immune diseases, cancers, and other pathologies. Mutations...

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Molecular crystal motors move when exposed to light

Potential applications include drug delivery

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