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.

Four faculty recognized by UCR’s Academy of Distinguished Teaching

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...

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.

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...

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

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.”

UCR physicists discuss how the center will benefit the Inland Empire

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...