College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Latest News

UCR physicists receive DOE grants as early career scientists

Miguel Arratia and Shawn Westerdale have each been awarded $875,000 over five years

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Alumni win over $300K in 2024-25 awards through CUREL

With the help of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Engaged Learning, or CUREL, recent graduates of UC Riverside racked up over $300,000 worth of funding for the 2024-25 academic year to pursue their studies and research.

By Malinn Loeung |

NSF funds instrumentation in lab linked to LIGO research

Physicist Jon Richardson is grant’s principal investigator

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Junior faculty honored for being outstanding teachers

Four faculty recognized by UCR’s Academy of Distinguished Teaching

By Jules Bernstein |

Entomology student honored by national society

A doctoral student in entomology is being honored by the world’s largest entomological society for her contributions to the field. Sakshi Watts is one of the student honorees being recognized by the Entomological Society of America in its 2024 Awards and Honors. Each year, the group honors scientists, educators, and students who have distinguished...

By Imran Ghori |

UCR team a runner-up in NASA Deep Space Food Challenge

A UC Riverside research team has won $250,000 as a runner-up in NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge for developing a method to grow mushrooms in outer space.

By David Danelski |

Astronomers use hands-on demo to explain infrared radiation to the public

Love for astronomy begins in childhood. With that in mind, three UC Riverside astronomers gave a presentation on August 3 to hundreds of children on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi on what infrared radiation is and how telescopes use it. Infrared radiation is part of the electromagnetic spectrum that exists between visible light and radio waves...

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Aerosols from u-cigarettes are at least as harmful as those from e-cigarettes

UC Riverside and Portland State University researchers evaluated four SURGE u-cigarette flavor variants

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Rahul Almeida wins 2024-25 Strauss Scholarship

Rahul Almeida, a biology undergrad expected to graduate from UC Riverside in 2025, has been awarded $15,000 from the Donald A. Strauss Foundation to fund an educational intervention program he organized called, “Food for Thought.”

By Malinn Loeung |

Experimental Cosmology Center draws Congressman Mark Takano to campus

UCR physicists discuss how the center will benefit the Inland Empire

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Ten professors win NSF CAREER Awards

Ten UC Riverside faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards to support research in areas ranging from early detection of diseases to human-robot interactions. The awards support early career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and advance their organization’s mission...

By UCR News |

Entomological Society of America elects UCR Professor as Fellow

Chow-Yang Lee honored for his research, mentorship, and public engagement

By Jules Bernstein |

Carolyn Rasmussen nominated for shaping the field of plant biology

Carolyn Rasmussen, UCR associate professor and plant cell biologist, has been named one of 25 notable women who have shaped the field of plant biology by the American Society of Plant Biologists, or ASPB. Research in her lab focuses on how cell division and shape impact plant development and has the potential to increase crop plant performance...

By Jordan Cornet |

CA Honey Queen is a UCR entomology graduate student

Beekeeping Federation position advances insect education

By Jules Bernstein |

Summer Physics Academy brings back an alumna to campus

Christina Manzano was one of two community college teachers attending the weeklong workshop

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

UCR advisor helped eliminate “probation” from academic language

The University of California has dropped the word “probation” from academic regulations – a change that a UC Riverside academic advisor helped push forward. The UC Academic Senate voted overwhelmingly on June 21 to remove the term probation and replace it with academic notice to alert students when they are falling behind in their studies. Brett...

By Imran Ghori |

Sophomore wins UCR neuroscience award

The Austin and Helen Riesen Neuroscience Award is given to the top undergraduate student in the neuroscience program

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

UCR soil researcher wins outstanding dissertation award

National recognition for soil scientist Matthew Amato

By Jules Bernstein |

Gravitational waves hint at dark matter and Big Bang mysteries

Study reports very simple forms of matter could generate detectable gravitational wave backgrounds soon after the Big Bang

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Physicists gain hands-on experience using cyclotron at UC Davis

Team included undergraduate and graduate students

By Iqbal Pittalwala |