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...
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...
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...
In light of California’s long-standing drought, UCR professor of botany and plant sciences, Darrel Jenerette, is beginning an urban tree project to determine if cooling provided by urban trees saves water. Data has been gathered from over 1,300 trees in Southern California, with more than 300 people contributing since last August.
The research seeks to explore how trees and other...
On Friday, October 16, a Southern Californian regional air district committee met with the South Coast Air Quality Management District to discuss plans concerning nitrogen oxide emission reduction.
Both nitrous acid and nitric acid are categorized as nitrogen oxides (NOx), which are a group of highly reactive gases. When left unchecked, these gases can "irritate the lungs" and "lower resistance...
UC Riverside: Entomologist names new wasp species after UC Riverside
A research project in Russia has led to the discovery of a new wasp species. The entomologist behind the discovery is UC Riverside’s very own Serguei V. Triapitsyn, principal museum scientist at the Entomology Research Museum on campus. Triapitsyn has named the species Gonatocerus UCRi, after our school. The name...
The Yin Group, a UCR-based research team, recently published an article related to the development of reusable paper in the academic journal “Nature Communications” on Dec. 2. Led by Yadong Yin, the research could potentially pave the way for the marketable mass production of a type of paper with a smaller environmental footprint.
The paper — available in shades of...
Nearly four million people in the United States have the hepatitis C viral infection with up to ten thousand dying annually across the nation. In response to this epidemic, a team of researchers has proposed combating the prevalence of the virus by treating those in the prison system; one in six prisoners are infected with the disease.
The virus, which...
UCR researchers will receive $835,000 of a $9 million grant over a span of three years to study the cardiovascular effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on two species of fish, the coastal redfish and pelagic mahi mahi. The rest of the grant will go to the University of Miami — who is leading the project —...