Inside UCR

Professor receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Wound Healing Society

Iqbal Pittalwala — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800

Manuela Martins-Green’s lab pioneered studies on the role of chemokines in wound healing

From diagnosis to discovery: Marin Furukuwa’s journey through epilepsy research

Iqbal Pittalwala — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800

Undergraduate’s internship experience fueled her passion for neuroscience and healthcare

UC Riverside doctoral student awarded prestigious DOE fellowship

Iqbal Pittalwala — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800

Ryan Milton will conduct AI-based nuclear physics research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Postdoc receives CURE Epilepsy’s Taking Flight Award

Iqbal Pittalwala — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800

Mahboubeh Ahmadi will study hippocampal inhibitory circuits and seizure-related behaviors

A UCR astrophysicist is now an asteroid

Jules Bernstein — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800

A scientist, his asteroid, and a happy hour

Tango mandarin is ‘2026 Flavor of the Year’ in Spain and Portugal

David Danelski — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800

A European trade association chooses the UCR-developed Tango mandarin as "Flavor of the Year" in Spain and Portugal.

UCR scientists win 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize

Iqbal Pittalwala — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800

Research shows how the universe’s first galaxies may have generated magnetic fields in intergalactic space

Custom engineering brings radioactivity to life

Iqbal Pittalwala — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800

A box on wheels built in a UCR machine shop is changing the way students see physics

The adventures of a German Shepherd and a nematologist

Malinn Loeung — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800

Zeus, the German Shepherd, found Perla Achi at the Riverside County Animal Shelter on October 2, 2018. At the time, he was a seven-month-old pup and she was a 22-year-old biology undergrad at UC Riverside. Achi was rescued by Zeus after losing her first German Shepherd, King, to cancer earlier that year — making for a tough start to her first year at UCR. She named him Zeus because he had a way of zooming and jumping when excited. With his size, he shook the floor and made loud noises, which reminded her of the Greek god of thunder.

The princess with a point

Jules Bernstein — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800

As the 2025 American Honey Princess and a master’s student in entomology at UC Riverside, Emilia Burnham has found a unique way to connect with schoolchildren and inspire future scientists.

The hidden glass shop powering UCR science

Iqbal Pittalwala — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800

Stephen Lepore’s custom glasswork keeps research moving across campus and beyond

UCR researchers recognized as ‘Highly Cited’ in 2025

Jules Bernstein — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800

Six UCR faculty members make Clarivate Analytics' 2025 list.

UCR scientist recognized by American Federation for Aging Research

Iqbal Pittalwala — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Huimin Zhang has received AFAR’s Grant for Junior Faculty

UCR physicist pushes for NASA & NSF funding in Washington, D.C.

Iqbal Pittalwala — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

On Save NASA Science Day of Action, Steve Choi joined hundreds of scientists and advocates from across the country

Graduate students win national honors for cockroach research

Jules Bernstein — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Rattanan Chungsawat and Emily Ta earn Entomological Society of America awards

UCR professor wins rare soil science medal

Jules Bernstein — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Soil Science Society of America recognizes William Jury

UCR professor studying tiny, ant-killing wasps earns big honor

Jules Bernstein — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Entomological Society of America elects John Heraty as fellow

Epilepsy research rewarded with fellowship and grant

Iqbal Pittalwala — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Viji Santhakumar’s lab is the recipient of both

NASA grant to allow in-depth study of cosmic microwave background

Iqbal Pittalwala — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Physicist Steve Choi will analyze satellite data to focus on reionization, one of the least understood epochs in cosmic history

Early-career faculty win fellowships

UCR News — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Eight UC Riverside assistant professors, whose research spans innovations in computer science to discoveries in Latin American history, have been awarded competitive 2025–26 Hellman Fellowships that support promising early-career faculty on the path to tenure.

Highlights from UCR’s 71st Commencement

Malinn Loeung — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700

UC Riverside concluded its 71st Commencement season on June 17, with UCR’s Class of 2025 walking at eight discipline- or degree-based ceremonies. Approximately 6,100 graduates, 35,000 in-person guests, 32,000 online streamers, and about 375 volunteer staff participated in the celebrations, which started on June 6. Highlanders belonging to specific groups also took part in additional micro celebrations organized by various student resources like the University Honors Cording, and year-end celebrations hosted by UCR’s ethnic and gender centers.

How did supermassive black holes form in the early universe?

Iqbal Pittalwala — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700

John Templeton Foundation grant to UCR will support research by physicist Hai-Bo Yu

Physicist recognized for contributions to cosmic ray physics

Iqbal Pittalwala — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Barry Barish will receive the IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award in July

Physicist elected member of American Philosophical Society

Iqbal Pittalwala — Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society

School of Medicine server room at the heart of UCR research

Erika Klein — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

High-powered computers relocated to SOM Ed 1 will benefit research across campus

Chemistry Ph.D. students to represent UCR at Nobel Laureate meeting

Jules Bernstein — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Ashley Pimentel and Ting Zhao encourage fellow students to pursue opportunities.

UCR physicist’s work featured in popular quantum course

Iqbal Pittalwala — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Umar Mohideen’s image from Casimir effect experiment will appear in Spanish version of a show on quantum mechanics

Tim Lyons’ geochemistry award continues lineage of legends

Jules Bernstein — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Greatness runs in the lab.

UCR part of collaboration that received Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Iqbal Pittalwala — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

CMS collaborators analyze data from Large Hadron Collider collisions

UCR scientists join elite class of 2024 AAAS fellows

Jules Bernstein — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

A big honor for chemistry and biomedical sciences faculty 