Content Tagged with: College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
High schoolers get university-level education in particle physics
The students compared their experiment results with those obtained by European students
UCR receives $1.5 million to support carbon capture technology research
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...
Neuroscience graduate student receives prestigious predoctoral fellowship
Elena Kozlova’s research will study how indoor flame retardant toxicants may affect brain development
UC Riverside faculty are honored at promotion ceremony
UC Riverside honored promoted faculty members at a luncheon at the Alumni and Visitors Center on Jan. 30. About 40 people attended, including Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox. Supervisors and colleagues joined those who were honored in celebrating their efforts. Promotions occurred across UCR schools, including the College of Humanities, Arts and Social...
UCR researcher wins biggest prize in agricultural science
Wolf Prize considered to be the “Nobel in agriculture”
Physics students gain hands-on experience in building a prototype detector
Now at Jefferson National Laboratory, the prototype will travel to two other national laboratories for testing
Physicist ranked eighth top female scientist in the world
The rankings are published by the portal Research.com
National Academy of Inventors elects UCR faculty as Fellows
Rare distinction honors prolific innovators
2022 ‘Highly Cited’ list recognizes UCR scientists’ significant impact
List celebrates authors of papers that rank in the top 1%
Physicist named fellow of the American Physical Society
Roya Zandi is an expert on the physics and biophysics of virus formation
Endowed fund supports UCR summer research program in perpetuity
A 10-week summer research program for undergraduate students at UC Riverside has received financial support that will help the program grow, move forward, and reach more students from diverse backgrounds. Alumnus Amit Munshi and his wife, June, have established a $500,000 endowment to support and increase student participation in “ Research In...
Neuroscientist named to board of directors of American Epilepsy Society
Viji Santhakumar will serve a three-year term
Meet UCR’s new faculty members
For fall quarter 2022, UC Riverside welcomed 34 new permanent faculty members from a variety of disciplines. Learn more about the new faculty below: College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences Sahin Acikgoz, an assistant professor of religious studies, is a member of the executive committee of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program. They...
Fields of green
Nearly 170 turfgrass professionals, academics and scientists met at the annual Turfgrass & Landscape Research Field Day at the UC Riverside Agricultural Operations Research Station on Sept. 15 to learn about the latest research on turfgrass. They discussed topics including drought management, drought tolerant species and cultivars, weed control...
NSF bestows CAREER Awards on 11 UC Riverside professors
Eleven UCR faculty have been honored by the National Science Foundation this year
A summer of particle physics
Three UC Riverside undergraduates just finished internships at CERN in Switzerland
Antiferromagnetic hybrids achieve important functionality for spintronic applications
UC Riverside-led study shows robust spin transport at antiferromagnet/ferromagnet interfaces
Highlanders mentor teens aspiring to STEM careers
Approximately 70 high school students who are considering careers in STEM, or science, technology, engineering, and math, industries spent three days at the UC Riverside campus engaging with industry experts and other teens from surrounding Riverside and San Bernardino County high schools, many of them from Riverside Unified School District. STEM...
Formation of black holes linked to spatial dimensions
More spatial dimensions can facilitate the collapse of gas, UC Riverside study finds
International project tracks climate change effects on freshwater dwellers
National Science Foundation grant enables UCR/Brazilian partnership