Associate professor at UCR’s Graduate School of Education, Margaret Nash, co-authored with Jennifer Silverman, associate registrar at the University of La Verne, recently published an article in the journal History of Higher Education Quarterly entitled, “An Indelible Mark: Gay Purges in Higher Education in the 1940’s.” The paper documents purges of students and faculty who were presumed to be...
University of California, Riverside graduate student Shirin Oskui recently tested 3-D printing materials for toxicity as part of a National Science Foundation grant. Along with adviser William Grover — biological engineer and assistant professor at UCR — Oskui and accompanying students are the first in the world to assess these types of toxic products and their possible effects on...
UCR physics and astronomy researcher Miguel Aragon-Calvo has created a 3-D printed model of the cosmic web — a network of filaments of dark matter, believed by many astronomers to form the basis of the universe. By using this model, Aragon-Calvo hopes to understand galaxy formation, particularly how gas particles accumulate into galaxies through gravity in a method called...
Federal research funding for UCR increased by $19 million for the fiscal year, Oct. 1, 2014 through Sept. 30, 2015 — totaling $97 million in research grants and setting a new a UCR record. While grants have increased for the campus, it falls behind other UC institutions such as UCLA which received approximately $1 billion in research grants last...
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have recently reported their findings on how sleep assists in the forming of long-term memories, the first mechanistic explanation for this process, in The Journal of Neuroscience.
It is believed that sleep affects learning and the formation of long-term memories, but the reasoning behind it was not identifiably clear. A team of...
A team of students from UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering recently won a $15,000 grant for a reusable storm drain filter that is more cost-efficient and less harmful to the environment than other models. The grant, awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is a phase one reward in the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) competition.
The team...
Island habitat linked to tameness in lizards
UCR professor Theodore Garland and two other researchers have published a study that confirms that island-dwelling lizards take longer to flee from predators than their mainland counterparts, a trait in island-dwelling animals that has long been observed, but never proven.
The study chiefly measured flight initiation distance, or the distance at which prey begins...
Nearly half a decade ago, geologists believed that they had discovered petite gems inside zircon crystals from Western Australia’s Jack Hills, which were considered to be the world’s oldest diamonds. The minerals were considered to be 4.3 billion years old, suggesting that the primordial earth cooled at a much earlier rate, in order to create a thick, continental crust...
Former UCR researcher Richard Vetter has published a book entitled “The Brown Recluse Spider” to correct misinformation associated with the arachnid. The book was released to the general public in March by Cornell Press.
Vetter, who retired from UCR in 2012, began writing the book seven years ago during flights to pest control associations on the East Coast. It wasn’t...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — in Geneva, Switzerland has restarted operations for the first time in two years at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) facilities. The LHC has been upgraded to operate at nearly double the energy capacity of previous operations, going from 7 tera-electron volts to 13 tera-electron...