Content Authored by: Iqbal Pittalwala
Molecular crystal motors move when exposed to light
Potential applications include drug delivery
Graduate students recognized for academic excellence and research achievements
Stipends will support their ongoing research
Extracurricular: Chasing this year’s spectacular solar eclipse
Eclipse enthusiast Morris Maduro joins millions of people along path of totality
Virtual villages can promote social engagement and mental wellbeing
UC Riverside-led study focused on older people living with HIV
Undergraduate wins UC Graduate Deans’ Leadership and Research Award
Budding neuroscientist Erik Hakopian provided academic mentorship to UCR students
Psychologist elected fellow of Association for Psychological Science
Weiwei Zhang’s research focuses on perception, attention, memory, and higher cognition
Gift to UCR results in new undergraduate fellowship
Aiden Wilkin will use the funds to continue working in the experimental LIGO group
Physics research puts UCR on landscape of particle manipulation
Successful trapping of electrons could lead to new quantum computing architectures
Reaching for the stars
A new astronomy course at UC Riverside offers undergraduates hands-on use of a telescope
School of Medicine receives national honor for outstanding DEI commitment
The medical school won Insight into Diversity’s Health Professions HEED Award also in 2021 and 2022
Graduate student wins award at local stem cell symposium
Natasha Brinkley conducts research in UCR’s Tissue Regenerative Engineering and Mechanotransduction lab
Physics graduate student wins merit award at national lab
Xilin Liang is stationed at Brookhaven National Lab
Second annual RNA symposium advances research and fosters collaborations
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
Gift to School of Medicine will support student scholarships
HCA Healthcare has a history of partnering with higher education institutions like UCR
Identification of new signaling pathway advances cancer research
UC Riverside-led study focuses on the oncoprotein MYC
UCR startup company wins prestigious NIH grant
Small Business Innovation Research grant from National Cancer Institute will accelerate development of pancreatic cancer-fighting drug
UCR joins new regenerative medicine consortium
Consortium will work on accelerating novel regenerative medicine therapies
Physics students win prizes at international conference
Sean Preins and Peter Carney won two of only three awards given at the 2023 Electron-Ion Collider User Group meeting
Astronomy grant will strengthen ties between UC Riverside and University of Hawaii
NSF funding will support education and training of students at both institutions
UCR is key player in conceptual design of next-generation gravitational wave observatory
Ten times larger than LIGO, Cosmic Explorer will push gravitational-wave astronomy to the edge of the observable universe