UC Riverside’s Multidisciplinary Research Building received the top honor in the city of Riverside’s annual beautification awards recognizing outstanding buildings. The research facility, also referred to as MRB, was presented with the Award of Distinction at Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey’s State of the City address on Jan. 30. Campus Architect Jacqueline Norman received the award...
A team of researchers led by UC Riverside’s Kinnari Atit has won state funding for a project that will investigate strategies for improving online postsecondary education in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, disciplines. The team’s project, “Supporting Student Learning About Molecular Structures From Simulations,” was chosen by the California Education Learning Lab...
The message at UC Riverside’s Citrus Day for the Industry event was clear: Huanglongbing poses an existential threat to California citrus growers but the defenses are holding and scientists will find better weapons. Over 200 people from the citrus industry and UC Riverside gathered on a windy January day to hear experts talk about the...
Get bugged out at the 6 th Annual Riverside Insect Fair! The City of Riverside Community and Economic Development Department’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Division and the UC Riverside Entomology Graduate Student Association will host the 6 th Annual Riverside Insect Fair to give the community the opportunity to learn how insects impact our lives...
Laura Sales first fell in love with astronomy when she was in middle school in Argentina, her country of birth. Today, she is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside and the recipient of the National Science Foundation's prestigious Faculty Early Career Development ( CAREER) Award, one of the most coveted recognitions...
[Christopher Cosma, graduate student in the UCR Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) department received a California Native Plant Society award for his work on linking plant-plant interactions with plant-pollinator interactions in California’s Colorado Desert.] Each year, CNPS awards education grants to student researchers focused on California native plants. We were amazed at the number...
In 2018, top scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom gathered in Washington, D.C. to talk about how climate change can affect terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems, often in interaction with other factors. Janet Franklin, a distinguished professor of botany and plant sciences at the University of California, Riverside co-organized the forum with...
Improperly mixed chemicals cause a shocking number of fires, explosions, and injuries in laboratories, businesses, and homes each year. A new open source computer program called ChemStor developed by engineers at the University of California, Riverside, can prevent these dangerous situations by telling users if it is unsafe to mix certain chemicals. The Centers for...
UCR physicists Kenneth Barish, Richard Seto, and Miguel Arratia will work with a consortium of UC campuses and national labs. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, as the site for Electron Ion Collider, or EIC, a planned major new nuclear physics research facility...
Are We Alone Lecture Series 2020: The search for alien life will be among the discussion topics of a four-part lecture series at UC Riverside's Palm Desert campus featuring speakers from NASA and UCR's Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center. Timothy Lyons, distinguished professor of biogeochemistry in UCR's Department of Earth Sciences and director of the Alternative...
Bahram Mobasher, a professor of observational astronomy at UC Riverside, is a member of an international team of astronomers that found the farthest galaxy group identified to date. Called EGS77, the group of three galaxies dates to a time when the universe was only 680 million years old. While more distant galaxies have been observed...
Two UC Riverside paleontology graduate students have organized a two-week bake sale to support the communities, wildlife, and their colleagues affected by the wildfires in Australia. Phillip Boan, 24, and Rachel Surprenant, 23, both paleontology master’s students in the UCR Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with support from classmates, will be selling baked goods...
University Communications will present a workshop with world-leading research communicator Dennis Meredith on Wednesday, Jan. 22, from 1-4 p.m. Refreshments will be served. “Communicating Science” is open to faculty, researchers, graduate students, and staff. Meredith will instruct faculty members and grad students on how to effectively explain their research to audiences important to their success...
The Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside, and the Center for Open Science, or COS, today announced the promising results of a research ethics training intervention created to strengthen ethics dialogue among STEM lab members. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Science Foundation-funded study...
In Memoriam Christopher A. Robertson UCR Professor Emeritus of Statistics (1942 - 2019) Christopher Robertson, a professor emeritus of statistics who taught at UC Riverside for over three decades, passed away June 15. He was 77. Robertson was born in London, England and received his bachelor of arts in mathematics from Trinity College, University of...
Dear CNAS Community, The stories shared in this newsletter reflect some of the amazing achievements that the CNAS community accomplished in 2019. Having our faculty ranked among the world's most influential scholars is a testament to our commitment to research and our students. Honors from the White House highlights our faculty and campus on the...
A project underway on the east side of the UC Riverside campus will offer high-tech greenhouse space where researchers from different disciplines can work together in a climate-controlled environment. The Plant Growth Environments Facility is the first new greenhouse research building built on campus in close to 40 years, said Rowan Reid, project manager for...
The 2019-20 Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant awards will help 18 students from seven UC campuses conduct field studies at NRS reserves. These are the four UCR grant recipients: UC Riverside CNAS grant recipients 2019-2020: Matthew Green Sierra Nevada Aquatics Research Lab Landscape Biodiversity in Alpine Lake-Stream Networks UC Riverside 2019-2020 Elijah Hall White Mountain...
In Memoriam Keith Knapp UCR Professor Emeritus of Resource Economics in the Department of Environmental Science (1950 - 2019) Keith passed away on November 27th, 2019, surrounded by his family and friends, in Riverside, California. Born in Wichita, Kansas, on July 28th, 1950, Keith was the first son of William H. and Jane L. Knapp...
David Reznick, a distinguished professor of biology at UC Riverside, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. The foundation recognizes top scientists and scholars from around the world at different stages in their careers. Award winners are invited to conduct research of their choice in Germany in...
