UCR Health expands direct access through Blue & Gold

U CR Health is expanding access for UC employees through its direct relationship with Blue & Gold. The expansion gives members the option to choose UCR Health directly for their healthcare rather than accessing UCR Health physicians through outside provider networks. “For the first time in our history, UCR Health has a direct contract with Blue &...

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Testing a new approach to treating Fragile X

Grant supports a protein-engineering approach to restore brain function in Fragile X syndrome

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School of Medicine recognized for academic excellence, belonging, and community-building

Medical school is recipient of Insight Into Academia 2026 Higher Education Excellence and Distinction (HEED) Award

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UCR’s Robert Rodriguez delivers James D. Mills Jr. Memorial Lecture

Lecture highlighted emergency departments’ role in reaching underserved patients with preventive care

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Medical School team wins first prize at physician conference

Team’s poster presentation focused on improving vaccine access in emergency departments

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Two UCR researchers named to Analytical Scientist’s Top 40 Under 40

Daniel Petras and Mingxun Wang recognized for innovative research and emerging leadership

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KIND Lab helps families make safer beauty choices

Workshop on campus brought 12 families together to learn about beauty products and enjoy free youth hairstyling

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UCR pediatrician helps improve newborn jaundice care

National quality improvement project supports updated treatment guidelines and reduces unnecessary phototherapy

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Advancing research to improve epilepsy care

Chia-Wei Yeh receives predoctoral research fellowship to investigate how stress influences brain function and seizure onset

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Extracurricular: Learning never retires

By building new skills, psychologist Rachel Wu is redefining what lifelong learning looks like

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Physicist wins top RED seed grant to advance gravitational-wave astronomy

Jonathan Richardson’s project will use AI to help design more sensitive detectors capable of probing the farthest reaches of the universe

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NSF grant to physicist funds research into how cells communicate

Three-year project will test whether the timing of protein activity helps cells select the right genes in response to stress

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California honors UCR professor with historic Women in Medicine recognition

Dr. Anita Gupta is also presented with the Distinguished Women in Medicine Award

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UCR expands Native youth vaping prevention

Statewide project aims to reduce vaping initiation among Native American adolescents

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Extracurricular: Finding their tribe

The first clue that Monica Carson and David Lo have arrived at San Diego Comic-Con isn’t the elaborate costumes. It’s the conversations they strike up with fellow fans. The couple — biomedical scientists in the UC Riverside School of Medicine — will stop to admire an independent artist’s work, duck into a panel discussion on banned books or science...

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UCR grant supports automated chronic disease prevention initiative

Project aims to expand chronic disease detection and prevention for underserved populations

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Peak flow monitoring adds little in acute asthma care

Commentary highlights symptom-guided assessment as an effective approach in the emergency department

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UCR student awarded Precision Medicine Fellowship

Amber Keith receives $150,000 fellowship to advance pancreatic cancer disparities research in California

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Biochemist receives prestigious ASMS Research Award

Early-career honor recognizes innovative mass spectrometry research and supports emerging leaders in the field

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National study finds wide variation in pediatric croup care

Researchers call for more consistent, evidence-based treatment nationwide

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