Content Authored by: Iqbal Pittalwala

Addressing the nation’s need for strong domestic semiconductor industry and infrastructure

Last year, UC Riverside scientists Shane Cybart and Ludwig Bartels and colleagues at UC Irvine received $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, to team up with Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in building a diverse educational pipeline in the field of microelectronics. Developing expertise and infrastructure in...

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Summer school focuses on nuclear physics

Held at UCR for the first time, the NNPSS attracted young researchers from all over the country

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Study examines salt taste in flies

UC Riverside research uncovers mechanism that reduces intake of harmful levels of salt

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Entomology Teaching Garden opens on campus

Researchers’ goal is to attract native pollinators to the garden for study

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Physicist receives high honor from Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona

Nobel laureate Barry Barish is a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at UCR

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What role does alternative splicing play in neurodegenerative disease?

UC Riverside scientists David Nikom and Sika Zheng explain in a timely review

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Graduate students to attend Nobel conference

Zoe Figueroa and Elena Kozlova leave for Germany this week

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Research paper by School of Medicine faculty member wins award

Study by Elizabeth Morrison-Banks and co-authors addressed abuse and neglect of adults with multiple sclerosis

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Blog highlights Riverside’s outdoor public art

David Eastmond’s explorations of the city on his bicycle bore fruit during the pandemic

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How does photosynthesis work so efficiently?

How do living systems establish themselves and work so well? This is a question UC Riverside physicists Nathaniel M. Gabor and Jed Kistner-Morris, as well as scholarly writing expert Benjamin W. Stewart explore in an article they published in this month’s issue of Physics Today, a magazine of the American Institute of Physics. The trio zero in on...

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Postdoc wins prestigious fellowship

Sebouh Paul will pursue nuclear physics research related to the Electron-Ion Collider

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A manual for engineering spin dynamics in nanomagnets

Manual can help debug and design nanomagnet devices

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Community chat exposes pandemic-related health disparities

Discussion topics included impact of the disease as well as health misinformation

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Research paper named a finalist for “Outstanding paper prize”

The journal Development shortlisted only four papers published in 2022 as finalists

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UCR study on health impact of chemicals in plastics makes the top 4

Research paper selected by NIEHS as a Paper of the Month

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First group of community college students accepted into UC Riverside California Medicine Scholars Program

New program diversifies state’s primary care physician workforce, addresses health provider shortage

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High schoolers get university-level education in particle physics

The students compared their experiment results with those obtained by European students

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Treatment needs of unhoused Hawaiians requires more attention, study says

An estimated 326,000 to 580,000 individuals experience sheltered homelessness in the United States each night, putting them at risk for depression, anxiety, serious mental illness, substance use, and physical health problems. Nonetheless, little is known about their treatment needs, particularly of community-dwelling unhoused individuals living...

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Biomedical sciences postdoc awarded UC fellowship

Meli’sa Crawford will examine the effects of agricultural dust exposure on intestinal barrier function

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Recent changes at UCR have promoted well-being, study finds

A nearly three-year longitudinal study on the culture of campus health at UC Riverside has found that focusing on well-being characterized by programs and services, such as fitness classes, as well as policy and structural-level interventions, such as stairwell beautification and hydration stations, has promoted well-being for the campus community...

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