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UCR Programs Get Additional Funding to Send Local Kids to College

The University of California, Riverside will be able to continue helping students from disadvantaged areas go to college. On May 8, the U.S. Department of Education gave UC Riverside more than $3.1 million in grants to re-fund the Upward Bound programs.

Manmade Pollutants May Be Driving Earth’s Tropical Belt Expansion

UC Riverside-led team identifies black carbon and tropospheric ozone as most likely drivers of large-scale atmospheric circulation change in the Northern Hemisphere tropics.

White to Give Annual “State of the Campus” Address at CUC Breakfast on May 30

University of California, Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White will present his annual "State of the Campus" address to the Citizens' University Committee (CUC) on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 7:15 a.m. at University Extension Rooms D/E.

Slow-motion Film Reveals What Happens When Lizards Drop Their Tails

On National Geographic Wild UC Riverside’s Timothy Higham details lizard’s unique escape plan.

Novel drug candidates offer new route to controlling inflammation

Pursuing a relatively untapped route for regulating the immune system, an international team of researchers has designed and conducted initial tests on molecules that have the potential to treat diseases involving inflammation, such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke and sepsis.

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Juan Felipe Herrera Reading at the UC Riverside Culver Center of the Arts

California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera presents his first public reading May 4 at the UCR Culver Center of the Arts. The award-winning UC Riverside poetry professor is known for chronicling the lives of Mexican Americans.

Nature: The Best Engineer — First Sundays at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum

Undergraduate students from Professor David Kisailus' lab at the University of California, Riverside teamed up with students from Mira Loma Middle School to demonstrate how invertebrate animals develop the tools they need for survival and what science can learn from them as part of the First Sundays presentation at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum on Sunday, May 6, 2012.

Living the Promise: Ameae Walker

Because babies grow well on formula, the benefits of breast-feeding are not immediately apparent. Long-term studies are beginning to show a higher incidence of disease—including asthma and diabetes—among patients who were fed formula as infants. However, the cellular and biological mechanisms are not yet well understood. By shedding light on how immune systems function, Dr. Walker contributes new knowledge in the fight to improve human health.

Living the Promise: Howard S. Friedman

As a health expert and social psychologist, Prof. Friedman developed the most extensive study of long life ever conducted. Based on data collected from 1,500 Americans over eight decades, his work reveals some surprising results. Personality traits such as conscientiousness and persistence predict life expectancy at least as well as biological factors like cholesterol and blood pressure.

Living the Promise: Carl Cranor

Today the average American is exposed to more than 80,000 toxic industrial compounds from the use of everyday products. In his most recent book, "Legally Poisoned," Prof. Cranor advocates for significant, immediate changes in U.S. regulatory and public health laws so that testing of chemicals and nanoengineered materials is required before they can be used in the manufacturing and sale of products.