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...

Kenneth Barish’s two-year term begins in March 2025

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...

Researchers will work at Brookhaven National Laboratory to uncover internal structure of protons

Miguel Arratia and Shawn Westerdale have each been awarded $875,000 over five years

Physicist Jon Richardson is grant’s principal investigator

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...

UCR physicists discuss how the center will benefit the Inland Empire

Christina Manzano was one of two community college teachers attending the weeklong workshop

Study reports very simple forms of matter could generate detectable gravitational wave backgrounds soon after the Big Bang

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

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

Successful trapping of electrons could lead to new quantum computing architectures

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

Sean Preins and Peter Carney won two of only three awards given at the 2023 Electron-Ion Collider User Group meeting

NSF funding will support education and training of students at both institutions

Ten times larger than LIGO, Cosmic Explorer will push gravitational-wave astronomy to the edge of the observable universe

Students and postdoctoral researchers at UC Riverside will be trained to use the magnetometer

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

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