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UCR physicist receives international award
Guido Altarelli Award recognizes Miguel Arratia’s work on probing the structure of the proton
Biochemist recognized for breakthroughs in functional metabolomics
Daniel Petras has received the Mattauch-Herzog Award from the German Association for Mass Spectrometry
UCR scientists win big in regional entomology awards
Professional society recognizes outstanding faculty and grad student work
UCR ranked high in QS World University Rankings
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...
Department of Physics and Astronomy receives national award
American Physical Society recognizes the department’s efforts to improve undergraduate physics education
UCR team attends regional conference to attract undergraduates to physics and astronomy
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...
Faculty promotions and awards celebrated
UC Riverside honored faculty members for their achievements at the 2025 Faculty Awards Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 6. About 170 people attended the dinner at the Mission Inn including faculty honorees and their family members, campus leaders, and deans, department chairs, and distinguished faculty. Faculty members were recognized for their promotions...
Trailblazing UCR Geneticist Becomes National Academy of Sciences VP
Sue Wessler recognized for scientific excellence and collaborative spirit
UCR team tests novel detector technology at particle collider
Seven UCR students designed, built, and ran their own experiment
ACS funding supports research with photocatalytic applications
Physicist Andrew Joe has received a Doctoral New Investigator grant
Campus first: UCR professor becomes Astronomical Society Fellow
Society honors Stephen Kane for work on planetary habitability, Venus, exoplanets, spirit of collaboration
UCR intellectual property leader appointed to USDA board
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.
Alum creates sculpture for Botanic Gardens
For decades, Frank Heyming has been a champion of the UC Riverside Botanic Gardens and public art on the campus. Now the UCR alum has his own sculpture installed at a prominent location along the main trail of the Botanic Gardens. The piece was installed in June with an unveiling ceremony held in July. Mounted on a concrete base, the five-foot tall...
Campus launches West Coast’s first educational program in cosmetic science
Yearlong program began last year
UCR adds to its ‘Highly Cited’ faculty members in 2024
List celebrates faculty influence
Cub scouts learn physics on campus
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...
Physicist elected chair of international nuclear physics experiment’s council
Kenneth Barish’s two-year term begins in March 2025
Finding connections between science and music
Scientists and musicians came together to talk about microscopic worms and perform chamber music at UC Riverside’s Culver Center of the Arts on Friday, Sept. 27. The “Earworm” event aimed to demonstrate the synergy between the two seemingly unconnected disciplines. Researcher Sophie Zaaijer, who served as emcee, described how scientists, like...
Missions to Venus take astrophysicist to DC
UC Riverside astrobiologist Stephen Kane joined efforts to promote two missions to Venus by going to Capitol Hill to advocate for continued congressional funding. Kane is assisting with two planned NASA missions to Venus that will be the first by the U.S. in over 30 years. He is on the science team for the DAVINCI mission, which will measure gases...
UCR welcomes 74 new faculty members
UC Riverside welcomed 74 new permanent faculty members for the 2024-2025 academic year who come from a variety of disciplines and research interests. The new faculty members offer expertise on a wide range of subjects from the economics of immigration to the history of California Indians. Their research covers a wide variety of topics including...