May 08, 2025
Turning light into usable energy
A grant from the U.S. Department of Defense will allow UCR researchers to address one of physics' most complex mysteries - the process by which light transfers energy through materials.
May 08, 2025
Mathematizing keloid scars gets UCR 3rd at UC Grad Slam
On April 29, UC Riverside doctoral candidate Angeliz Vargas Casillas placed third in the 2025 UC Grad Slam, an annual competition challenging graduate students from the 10 UC campuses to effectively pitch their years-long Ph.D. research ... within three minutes ... using one single presentation slide. Gulp.
May 06, 2025
Discovery: a better, more targeted termite terminator
UC Riverside researchers find a chemical able to kill about 95 percent of a drywood termite colony without off-target effects on mammals.
May 02, 2025
Toxic comeback looms for upholstered furniture
UC Riverside professor of environmental toxicology, David Volz argues that California lawmakers should prevent furniture manufacturers from going back to using toxic, ineffective chemical flame retardants.
May 02, 2025
National Academy of Sciences welcomes two UCR faculty members
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) welcomes two UC Riverside professors as new members: Mary Droser, distinguished professor of earth and planetary sciences, and Hailing Jin, Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair of microbiology and plant pathology.
April 23, 2025
Invasive weed threatens Southern California’s deserts
Once thought resistant to invasion, regional deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan mustard. UC Riverside research shows its spread is disrupting biodiversity and reducing the desert’s ability to recover from extreme climate swings.
April 21, 2025
Scientists finally confirm vitamin B1 hypothesis from 1958
Chemists have confirmed a 67-year-old theory about vitamin B1 by stabilizing a reactive molecule in water — a feat long thought impossible.
April 16, 2025
Superbugs, Indigenous video games, and tipping dilemmas
On April 11, nine UC Riverside graduate students presented their research at the 11th annual UCR Grad Slam Final for a chance at $5,000. The event was hosted by UCR’s Grad Division and was held on campus at the School of Business.
Grad Slam is a University of California-wide speaking competition in which graduate students get three minutes to describe their research to judges and an audience of peers, faculty, staff, friends, and family.
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Physicist elected member of American Philosophical Society
Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society
April 30, 2025
School of Medicine server room at the heart of UCR research
High-powered computers relocated to SOM Ed 1 will benefit research across campus
April 24, 2025
Chemistry Ph.D. student to represent UCR at Nobel Laureate meeting
Ashley Pimentel encourages fellow students to pursue networking opportunities.
April 23, 2025
UCR physicist’s work featured in popular quantum course
Umar Mohideen’s image from Casimir effect experiment will appear in Spanish version of a show on quantum mechanics
April 15, 2025
Tim Lyons’ geochemistry award continues lineage of legends
Greatness runs in the lab.
April 14, 2025
UCR part of collaboration that received Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
CMS collaborators analyze data from Large Hadron Collider collisions
April 09, 2025
UCR scientists join elite class of 2024 AAAS fellows
A big honor for chemistry and biomedical sciences faculty
March 25, 2025
UCR physicist receives international award
Guido Altarelli Award recognizes Miguel Arratia’s work on probing the structure of the proton
