In a collaborative effort to create a functional swimsuit that cleans the ocean, UCR professors and the Eray Carbajo design firm recently won the international Reshape15 competition for the best of wearable technology.
For the past four years, electrical engineering professors Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan along with graduate students, Daisy Patino and Hamed Bay have been trying to create an...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant totaling $454,866 for the continuation of a project led by UCR Professor of Psychology, David Funder.
This study has been published in the “Journal of Personality” and is known as The World at 7: Comparing the Experience Across 20 Countries, and encaptures the behavior of people spanning the globe and...
Patents on developments such as the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, the nicotine patch used to help cigarette-smokers crush their habit and the Camarosa strawberry have all helped to bring in revenue into the UC system, earning over $500 million for the schools and faculty involved.
Because of the potential royalties, licensing fees and stock holdings to be earned through patents,...
UCR professor of entomology Richard Stouthamer and faculty members Akif Eskalen, and R. Duncan Selby have created a plastic trap using a 3-D printer to combat the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB), an invasive ambrosia beetle of the weevil subfamily that is infecting avocado trees across California.
The beetle's first recorded California infestation occurred in 2003. Although it originated in...
Louis Santiago, a UCR associate professor of physiological ecology will begin a two-year project to study the effects of extreme drought conditions on shrubs and trees after receiving a grant totaling $187,165 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
California is in its fourth year of drought, which has caused a swift and immeasurable increase in vegetation mortality and is leading...
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...
What did the first multicellular animals of early Earth resemble? A recent discovery that specimens of the fossil Dickinsonia were fragmented due to being lifted off the seafloor by ancient currents propelled a team of UC Riverside researchers one step closer to answering questions of early evolution and life on the planet.
Led by second-year earth science graduate student Scott...
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...
Five UCR students were each selected to receive $1,500 grants under UC President Janet Napolitano’s new UC-wide Sustainability Fellowship and Internship Program. In less than three weeks, UCR received 38 student proposals vying for these fellowships, more than the number of proposals submitted at any of the other nine UCs.
The program was created to complement the UC’s Carbon Neutrality...
UCR postdoctoral physics and astronomy scholar Leo Winkler gave a presentation discussing potential extraterrestrial life, civilizations and the possibility of communicating with them last Thursday. The two-hour lecture was given in Room 206 of Winston Chung Hall to a crowd of approximately 20 people, mostly graduate students.
Winkler discussed the origins of Earth and the diversity of its ecosystems, which...