Solar panels contribute over 18 percent of renewable electrical energy sources that help power UCR according to statistics taken in 2010, and will grow to 30 percent by 2020. However, a recent study led by on-campus researchers discovered that environmentally harmful effects come with certain utility-scale installations.
Lead researcher and Junior Specialist Rebecca R. Hernandez revealed that such large-scale developments...
A research team led by UCR Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences Dr. Ilhem Messaoudi recently made a breakthrough in the management and detection of yellow fever, a tropical disease responsible for 200,000 infections and 30,000 deaths annually.
According to Dr. Messaoudi, the goal of the project was to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms by which the yellow fever...
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...
What happens to us after we die? The Immortality Project, a research project which studies this question and offers essay prizes to those who advance the themes of immortality through their work, recently awarded its third $3,000 award to Dr. Jesse Bering for his essay entitled “Life after death: The idea of life after death lives on in near-death...
UCR psychologists Aaron Seitz, Daniel Ozer and Jenni Deveau launched a one-year vision-based study, which improved the performance of UCR baseball players, who received 41 additional runs and four additional wins throughout the season.
In 2013, 19 of 37 UCR baseball players who participated in games saw a 31 percent improvement in visual acuity over the 18 who did not....
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...
UCR psychologist Sara Mednick and her team of researchers have received about $2.7 million in federal funding for her research on sleep and its importance on memory. Mednick’s research focuses on the effects of Ambien on college-age people’s ability to learn and the effects of Ritalin and Adderall on the cognition of people serving in the military. The funding...