Guido Altarelli Award recognizes Miguel Arratia’s work on probing the structure of the proton

Daniel Petras has received the Mattauch-Herzog Award from the German Association for Mass Spectrometry

Professional society recognizes outstanding faculty and grad student work

UC Riverside has been named one of the world’s top universities for 17 subject areas in the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings, released Wednesday, March 12. In its rankings, global higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds, or QS, compared more than 18,300 university programs in more than 1,700 universities around the world in...

American Physical Society recognizes the department’s efforts to improve undergraduate physics education

For the first time, the UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy provided full financial support for two postdoctoral researchers and three graduate students to attend the Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics that was held last month in San Diego, California. The UCR contingent attended one day of the three-day...

Sue Wessler recognized for scientific excellence and collaborative spirit

Seven UCR students designed, built, and ran their own experiment

Physicist Andrew Joe has received a Doctoral New Investigator grant

Society honors Stephen Kane for work on planetary habitability, Venus, exoplanets, spirit of collaboration

Brian Suh, UCR’s senior executive director of technology partnerships, has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to serve on a board that safeguards the intellectual property of crop breeders.

Two papers co-authored by UC Riverside professor Bryan Wong have been recognized recently by their respective publishers as leading scientific studies.

Yearlong program began last year

Local cub scouts who visited campus on Nov. 3 got an early education in physics and astronomy. The two-hour event was arranged by Robert Sanderson, an instructional lab manager and lecture demonstration specialist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. “We had almost 30 scouts in attendance, and the kids and their parents all were smiling from...

Kenneth Barish’s two-year term begins in March 2025

Five-month program focuses on developing participants’ communication and advocacy skills

Researchers will work at Brookhaven National Laboratory to uncover internal structure of protons

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

Physicist Jon Richardson is grant’s principal investigator

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.