Current News Releases

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) – The economic downturn might have a positive effect on the rise of some Internet sites according to researchers at UC Riverside’s Sloan Center for Internet Retailing.   (May 13, 2008)

Science fiction icons Ray Bradbury and Frederick Pohl, other science fiction authors and international scholars will explore the role of Mars in science fiction literature in the Eaton Science Fiction Conference May 16-18 at the University of California, Riverside.   (May 9, 2008)

Hip-hop poetry, Renaissance art and Afro-Brazilian music are among the workshops UC Riverside’s annual Gluck Summer Camp for the Arts will offer high school students in a free, four-week program that begins July 1.Applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday, May 30.   (May 8, 2008)

Norman Ellstrand, a professor of genetics, plays scientific advisor to Basmati Blues, “a film about love, adventure and … genetically modified rice.” Set in India and the boardrooms of Manhattan, the musical comedy is expected to hit U.S. theaters in summer 2009.   (May 7, 2008)

Not since Andy Warhol’s famous Campbell’s Soup painting have canned goods been so prominent in art as with the Canstruction 2008 fundraiser for the Riverside Art Museum. A student team from UC Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering will compete against several others in Canstruction, a Riverside Arts Alliance fundraiser for the Riverside Art Museum.   (May 7, 2008)

Susan Straight, professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, has won a 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award for her short story, “The Golden Gopher.”   (May 5, 2008)

While a four billion year supply of the most abundant energy in our solar system goes largely wasted, Californians still cling to $4-per-gallon fossil fuels, fuming in their fumes in traffic jams in an uncomfortable, unsustainable yet persistent lifestyle. TechHorizons 2008 will present some of the most promising approaches to a better way of living in a two-day conference Tuesday and Wednesday, May 13-14.   (May 4, 2008)

A research team led by Michael Pirrung, a professor of chemistry, offers a novel pathway for how “anti-aging” products like EthylBloc™ and SmartFresh^SM block ethylene in plants, delaying the plants’ demise and allowing people to enjoy their beauty and products for longer than nature allows.   (May 2, 2008)

Forrest S. (Woody) Mosten, an internationally known mediator and advocate of conflict resolution methods to settle disputes, will speak at UC Riverside on Wednesday, May 7, at 5:30 p.m. in the Alumni and Visitors Center, 3701 Canyon Crest Drive. Mosten will discuss “Conflict and Peacemaking: From Kindergarten to the Middle East” in the first lecture of what will become an annual event, the Forrest S. Mosten Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies Lectureship.   (April 30, 2008)

Hybrid cars are so quiet when operating only with their electric motors that they may pose a risk to the blind and some other pedestrians, research by a University of California, Riverside psychologist suggests.   (April 28, 2008)