Current News Releases

Noboru Sato, an assistant professor of biochemistry, has devised a method of growing hESCs in the lab that uses no animal-derived materials – an important advance in the use of hESCs for future medical purposes.   (August 19, 2008)

UC Riverside will become only the third university in the nation to offer a Ph.D. in ethnic studies when the doctoral program launches in fall 2009. The Department of Ethnic Studies will begin accepting applications for the Ph.D. program on Sept. 1.   (August 13, 2008)

If you encountered an unfamiliar-looking insect, how would you identify it by name and learn more about its behavior and impact? Thanks to the efforts of entomologist Mark Hoddle, that difficulty has now been significantly eased for identifying California’s thrips.   (August 13, 2008)

Community college students can clock in at a number of science-based businesses and put their classroom skills to the test as part of the UCR’s Copernicus Project Beckman Coulter Internship program. The program, named for the $50,000 annual grant from the Beckman Coulter Foundation, provides students a chance to work any combination of 40 hours and earn $20 an hour.   (August 13, 2008)

As UC Riverside teams increasingly look to contend for conference titles, community leaders are forming the Highlanders Athletics Association to build regional support for the Division 1 athletics program that has produced championships in baseball, men’s golf, and women’s basketball and soccer, and individual national honors for athletes in a variety of sports.   (August 12, 2008)

To make a discovery and get to name it is just about every scientist’s dream. For Allison Hansen, a doctoral student in entomology, that dream already has come true.   (August 11, 2008)

The Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at the University of California, Riverside has received a $1 million grant from the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation to continue funding the arts outreach program through June 30, 2010.   (August 6, 2008)

Pest cerambycids can cause severe damage to standing trees, logs and lumber. How then might they be promptly detected and their numbers swiftly controlled? Jocelyn Millar, a professor of entomology, has an answer.   (August 5, 2008)

Youth who have aged out of the foster-care system face numerous obstacles to earning a college degree, not the least of which are the lack of a family support system and the need for year-round housing. UC Riverside is hoping to ease the transition for qualifying students with the launch this fall of UCR Guardian Scholars.   (August 1, 2008)

Students attending a lecture by UC Riverside Professor David Oglesby on earthquakes got more than they expected from the lesson on ground waves as a 5.4 magnitude earthquake rumbled through the campus. The Community College Internship program, sponsored by the Graduate School of Education "Copernicus Project," was in full swing Tuesday, July 29 when the quake hit at 11:42 a.m. near Chino Hills, California, about 30 miles west of Riverside.   (July 30, 2008)