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...
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.”
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
