Tag: research
UCR Multidisciplinary Research Building opens following Friday dedication
On Friday Jan. 11, UCR’s Multidisciplinary Research Building (MRB1) was officially opened for campus use following a formal dedication led by Chancellor Kim Wilcox,...
UCR School Of Public Policy seminar discusses new Science to Policy...
On Nov. 29, the UCR School of Public Policy (SPP) held a seminar titled “2018 Midterms: What Did Science Win and Lose at the...
UCR researchers uncover new hacking methods to steal personal information
This October, UCR computer science researchers successfully accomplished side channel GPU attacks using direct and cross computational stacks, or in layman’s terms, indirectly used...
UCR researchers use DNA splicing to prevent Zika virus, dengue fever
On Oct. 1, 2018, Distinguished Professor of Entomology Alexander Raikhel and Lin Ling, a postdoctoral scholar at UCR, published their research on the genetic...
Inland Empire Poverty Summit examines local economic hardship
The Inland Empire Poverty Summit was a conference held jointly by the UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty, a research program dedicated...
Multidisciplinary Research Building to finish construction this year
UCR’s new Multidisciplinary Research Building (MRB), just north of the existing Materials Science and Engineering Building (MSE), will finish construction at the end of...
Unblocked: UCR research reveals abundance of anti-adblocking software
On Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, a UCR research study was published reporting that up to 3,050 of the top 10,000 visited websites use anti-ad...
UCR research shows how Argentine ants have been a successful invasive...
A recent UCR research paper, “Verification of Argentine Ant Defensive Compounds and Their Behavioral Effects on Heterospecific Competitors and Conspecific Nestmates,” explores how Argentine...
New genetic research reveals consequences of pesticide use on mosquito evolution
Researchers from the UCR Department of Entomology have learned more about the genetic changes exacerbated by pesticidal chemicals used on mosquitoes.
According to the...
UCR scientists continue efforts to combat weevils
South American palm weevils have been slowly destroying Southern California’s iconic palm trees. On Oct. 1, the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)...