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UCR’s prison-to-university pipeline program gets $300K grant from California Wellness Foundation

Malinn Loeung — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0800

The Underground Scholars Program at the University of California, Riverside has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the California Wellness Foundation, or Cal Wellness, to help young people involved with the juvenile justice system enroll and succeed in higher education.

Partnership between UCR and City of Hope aims to increase diversity in cancer research

Iqbal Pittalwala — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700

$13.7M grant from National Cancer Institute will support several projects on breast and pancreatic cancers

Native nations and UC scientists join together in climate fight

Jules Bernstein — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Indigenous land-management strategies have been largely missing from modern attempts to combat the effects of worsening climate change in California. A new $7 million grant aims to change that.

Salton Sea environment detrimental to respiratory health of local children

Iqbal Pittalwala — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0700

UC Riverside-led study focuses on caregivers’ take on how the sea affects their children’s health

Researcher-community partnership uses collaborative process to yield novel insights

Iqbal Pittalwala — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Until recently, psychologist Kalina Michalska had never used community-based participatory research, or CBPR, in her work, but now she can’t imagine not using it. CBPR, which dates to the early 1930s, is an intensive research approach that involves partnerships between researchers and community members throughout the research process, giving communities a voice in how the research proceeds and allowing them to make use of the findings more effectually.

Korean American history to become a traveling exhibition

Sandra Baltazar Martinez — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0800

UCR professor receives $850,000 Mellon Foundation grant to share history of American’s first Koreatown.

Salton Sea dust triggers lung inflammation

Iqbal Pittalwala — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800

UC Riverside study has health implications for people living around California’s largest lake