The UC Riverside Botanic Gardens has seen an outpouring of support following break-ins that resulted in the loss of thousands of dollars in equipment. Supporters have asked how they can donate money and equipment, and volunteer to help, after Botanic Gardens Director Jodie Holt posted on social media about burglaries that occurred Friday evening...

Held at UCR for the first time, the NNPSS attracted young researchers from all over the country

UC Riverside research uncovers mechanism that reduces intake of harmful levels of salt

Researchers’ goal is to attract native pollinators to the garden for study

Nobel laureate Barry Barish is a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at UCR

UC Riverside scientists David Nikom and Sika Zheng explain in a timely review

Zoe Figueroa and Elena Kozlova leave for Germany this week

David Eastmond’s explorations of the city on his bicycle bore fruit during the pandemic

UC Riverside has been designated as a bee-friendly campus and become an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, joining other institutions in improving the landscape for pollinators. An initiative of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Bee Campus USA and the associated Bee City USA program provide a framework for communities to work...

Jingsong Zhang receives American Chemical Society award

How do living systems establish themselves and work so well? This is a question UC Riverside physicists Nathaniel M. Gabor and Jed Kistner-Morris, as well as scholarly writing expert Benjamin W. Stewart explore in an article they published in this month’s issue of Physics Today, a magazine of the American Institute of Physics. The trio zero in on...

Sebouh Paul will pursue nuclear physics research related to the Electron-Ion Collider

At the top floor of UC Riverside’s new Plant Research 1 building, geneticist Julia Bailey-Serres is testing how to grow rice to withstand drought and flooding conditions in countries like India. In the laboratory next to her, researcher Bao-Lam Huynh is growing new varieties of cowpea plants that will be sent to Africa. Their work takes advantage...

Manual can help debug and design nanomagnet devices

J. Ole Becker honored for protecting crops from parasites

The journal Development shortlisted only four papers published in 2022 as finalists

Five thousand U.S. higher-education students applied, 1,267 applicants moved on to be nominated, and 413 of those nominees were awarded the 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholarship — three of them being UC Riverside Highlanders. Since 2013, Goldwater Scholarships have been awarded to 18 Highlanders. This scholarship recognizes talented undergrads majoring...

The students compared their experiment results with those obtained by European students

UC Riverside and climate start-up Pluton Biosciences have partnered to advance the development of technology that increases a plant’s capability to capture CO2 and sequester it in the soil. Commercialization of the technology has the potential to create more sustainable agricultural practices and increase crop yields as an additional outcome of...

Elena Kozlova’s research will study how indoor flame retardant toxicants may affect brain development