UCR researchers this week announced a major breakthrough in microelectronics that will allow for more efficient and effective photodetector technology. A team led by Assistant Professor of Physics Nathaniel Gabor has discovered a method of layering molecules in a way that generates energy in the process of receiving photons on its surface. The findings, which have been published in...
ASUCR conducted their second meeting of the 2017-2018 academic year on Wednesday night, Oct. 11 beginning at 6:30 pm.
To start the meeting, ASUCR president Aram Ayra presented Peter Haddad, Starla Carrillo and Rume Diamreyan as the three new nominees to serve as justices, while explaining that the fourth spot will remain temporarily vacant. The senate went on to...
From the biomedical science labs, Assistant Professor Jun-Hyeong Cho, M.D., Ph.D, and his postdoctoral researcher Woong Bin Kim are manipulating suppression of memory through the use of light to limit neuron communication. This is a method commonly known as optogenetics, the use of light to weaken the synapses of a neuron.
Through the use of mouse models, both scientists were...
On May 3, 2016, UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox introduced his plan to develop new buildings and businesses on the northern end of campus. This new infrastructure will be located on the 50 acres that make up the north side of campus on the northern end of Linden St. across from the SRC and Aberdeen-Inverness residence hall. The only obstacle...
ASUCR’s first state of the association meeting of fall quarter convened in the senate chambers on Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 6:30 p.m.
After roll call, 2017-18’s ASUCR senators were sworn in, officially beginning their tenure as undergraduate representatives of UCR.
Shortly after, the agenda was approved and officer reports were delivered. Staffs for the Vice President of External Affairs,...
Manuela Martins-Green, a professor of cell biology at UC Riverside, and chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, has led her team in researching the effects of thirdhand smoking, otherwise known as THS, and how it can affect the body in profound ways.
THS is when people are surrounded by clothing, items and interiors where tobacco smoke...
California is expected to receive, on average, about 12 percent more rain through the 21st century with more El Nino-like conditions, suggest recent findings by UCR researchers Robert Allen and Rainer Luptowitz.
Allen, assistant professor in the Department of Earth Science, stated in an email that previous climate models and studies “have suggested that California will become drier under future...
A recent press release from UC Riverside described the school’s increased commitment to the expansion of its nearly 70-year-old avocado breeding program as a response to the recent boom in avocado demand. Through a new breeding program, this initiative will aim to combine new avocado breeding variety experiments with blockchain technology. This technology, according to Investopedia, is “a digitized,...
A Las Vegas country music festival, Route 91 Harvest, ended in tragedy on Sunday, Oct. 1 as a lone gunman shot and killed 59 individuals, and injured 489 more. Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old resident of the Mesquite, Nevada retirement community, began firing on assembled concert-goers from his 32nd floor hotel room in the Mandalay Bay hotel during a performance...
UCR researchers are exploring how experiencing rejection can influence future courtship behavior. The focus of this study was on behavioral patterns of male fruit flies before and after experiencing rejection from females. The experiments were led by Michael Adams, a professor of entomology and neuroscience, who was joined by UCR graduate students Sang Soo Lee, Yike Ding and Natalie...