Content Authored by: Iqbal Pittalwala

Biomedical scientist receives his 14th challenge coin

Scott Pegan is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army

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UCR physicist receives international award

Guido Altarelli Award recognizes Miguel Arratia’s work on probing the structure of the proton

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Medical student publishes children’s book

Author Zayan Musa is passionate about medical humanities and using visual graphics in medicine

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Biochemist recognized for breakthroughs in functional metabolomics

Daniel Petras has received the Mattauch-Herzog Award from the German Association for Mass Spectrometry

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Blending medicine and art

UC Riverside student explores art therapy for elderly patients

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Department of Physics and Astronomy receives national award

American Physical Society recognizes the department’s efforts to improve undergraduate physics education

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UCR team attends regional conference to attract undergraduates to physics and astronomy

For the first time, the UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy provided full financial support for two postdoctoral researchers and three graduate students to attend the Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics that was held last month in San Diego, California. The UCR contingent attended one day of the three-day...

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UCR team tests novel detector technology at particle collider

Seven UCR students designed, built, and ran their own experiment

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UCR School of Medicine awarded $550,000 by UCOP to advance faculty diversity

THRIVE initiative will address health disparities, particularly those affecting underrepresented populations in medicine

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ACS funding supports research with photocatalytic applications

Physicist Andrew Joe has received a Doctoral New Investigator grant

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Biomedical scientist to investigate endocannabinoids as potential treatment for cocaine addiction relapse

Natalie Zlebnik has received a NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

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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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