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

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

Awardees are Kristen Herbert and Tara Westmor

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...

Awards were presented April 5

Potential applications include drug delivery

Stipends will support their ongoing research

Eclipse enthusiast Morris Maduro joins millions of people along path of totality

UC Riverside-led study focused on older people living with HIV

Budding neuroscientist Erik Hakopian provided academic mentorship to UCR students

Weiwei Zhang’s research focuses on perception, attention, memory, and higher cognition

Aiden Wilkin will use the funds to continue working in the experimental LIGO group

Successful trapping of electrons could lead to new quantum computing architectures

A new astronomy course at UC Riverside offers undergraduates hands-on use of a telescope

The medical school won Insight into Diversity’s Health Professions HEED Award also in 2021 and 2022

Natasha Brinkley conducts research in UCR’s Tissue Regenerative Engineering and Mechanotransduction lab

Xilin Liang is stationed at Brookhaven National Lab

Attendees included National Academy of Sciences members and prominent scientists from UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Stanford University, University of Toronto SickKids Research Institute, and City of Hope

HCA Healthcare has a history of partnering with higher education institutions like UCR

UC Riverside-led study focuses on the oncoprotein MYC