College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Latest News

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 |

Extracurricular: UCR analyst’s art travels to Romania

Maggie Tello Case thought she was being phished when she received an email in January from curator Claire D’Alba representing the Art in Embassies program at the United States Department of State. D’Alba was requesting Tello Case, a senior contracts and grants analyst in UCR’s College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, lend some of her artwork for...

By J.D. Mathes |

Ken Barish is named chair of UCR Academic Senate

Ken Barish has been elected chair of the UC Riverside Academic Senate. His two-year term begins on Sept. 1. Barish succeeds Sang Hee-Lee, who has been chair the past two years. In the role of chair, Barish will preside over the three Academic Senate meetings each year, act as its spokesperson, oversee administrative duties, and act as UCR’s...

By J.D. Warren |

Physicists gain hands-on experience using cyclotron at UC Davis

Team included undergraduate and graduate students

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Sonja Lyubomirsky wins top faculty award for 2023-24

Sonja Lyubomirsky has received the highest honor bestowed on faculty by the UCR Academic Senate, the 2023-24 Faculty Research Lecturer Award. Lyubomirsky is a distinguished professor of psychology and a world-renowned researcher on happiness. Lyubomirsky, who was recently named a AAAS fellow, “is considered as perhaps the top researcher in the...

By J.D. Warren |

Honoring Barry Barish with a day rich in physics

UC Riverside honors the distinguished professor and Nobel laureate for receiving a National Medal of Science

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Molecular crystal motors move when exposed to light

Potential applications include drug delivery

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Graduate students recognized for academic excellence and research achievements

Stipends will support their ongoing research

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Extracurricular: Chasing this year’s spectacular solar eclipse

Eclipse enthusiast Morris Maduro joins millions of people along path of totality

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Undergraduate wins UC Graduate Deans’ Leadership and Research Award

Budding neuroscientist Erik Hakopian provided academic mentorship to UCR students

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

UCR chemist Timothy Su joins 2024 class of Cottrell Scholars

Award supports innovative science research and education

By Jules Bernstein |

Gift to UCR results in new undergraduate fellowship

Aiden Wilkin will use the funds to continue working in the experimental LIGO group

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

CNAS Science Lecture Series returns

UC Riverside’s College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences will present talks on climate change, cosmology, and sustainability as part of its annual Science Lecture Series. The series will kick off March 5 with a presentation by Robert Allen, a professor of climatology, titled “The Escalating Climate Crisis.” Allen will discuss the widespread and...

By Imran Ghori |

Physics research puts UCR on landscape of particle manipulation

Successful trapping of electrons could lead to new quantum computing architectures

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Reaching for the stars

A new astronomy course at UC Riverside offers undergraduates hands-on use of a telescope

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

2023 ‘Highly Cited’ list celebrates UCR faculty influence

Researchers rank in top 1% worldwide

By Jules Bernstein |

UCR wins grant promoting faculty diversity efforts

UC Riverside’s Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology department is one of the recipients of the University of California Advancing Faculty Diversity Program awards for the 2023-24 academic year. The program provides support to increase UC’s faculty diversity efforts. Eight grants, totaling about $2.6 million, were awarded. The Advancing Faculty...

By Imran Ghori |