The Lab: UCR researcher 3-D prints the cosmic web
UCR physics and astronomy researcher Miguel Aragon-Calvo has created a 3-D printed model of the cosmic web — a network of filaments of dark matter, believed by many astronomers to form the basis of...
UCR professor creates self-healing polymer
Chao Wang, associate professor of chemistry, has recently synthesized a new type of artificial polymer using coordination complexes that can self-heal at a wide range of temperatures, as well as after repeated compromises in...
BCOE team wins $15,000 grant
A team of students from UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering recently won a $15,000 grant for a reusable storm drain filter that is more cost-efficient and less harmful to the environment than other models....
UCR researcher discovers new species of orchid
A new species of orchid was discovered by UCR postdoctoral scholar Katia Silvera while she was on a field trip with her father, Gaspara Silvera, in the mountainous regions of central Panama back in...
UCR launches largest renewable energy project in California
One of the most visible partners of the Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) is the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), which has begun a project to create a renewable energy research center...
“The Brown Recluse Spider” book bites misconceptions
Former UCR researcher Richard Vetter has published a book entitled “The Brown Recluse Spider” to correct misinformation associated with the arachnid. The book was released to the general public in March by Cornell Press.
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University of California patents prove to be profitable throughout system schools
Patents on developments such as the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, the nicotine patch used to help cigarette-smokers crush their habit and the Camarosa strawberry have all helped to bring in revenue into the UC...
UCR physicists assist in upgrading CERN hadron collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — in Geneva, Switzerland has restarted operations for the first time in two years at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)...
UCR Professors use 3-D printing to protect avocado trees
UCR professor of entomology Richard Stouthamer and faculty members Akif Eskalen, and R. Duncan Selby have created a plastic trap using a 3-D printer to combat the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB), an invasive...
The Lab: Research from around the UC
Island habitat linked to tameness in lizards
UCR professor Theodore Garland and two other researchers have published a study that confirms that island-dwelling lizards take longer to flee from predators than their mainland counterparts, a...