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UCR joins forces with NASA on missions to Venus
WEBJun 3, 2021 · By joining NASA on its newly announced missions, UC Riverside is hoping to learn how Venus went from pleasant, Earth-like planet to blistering wasteland. Rendering of spacecraft headed to Venus on two new NASA missions. (NASA) The twin missions mark the first time in more than 30 years the agency has ventured to Earth’s closest planetary ...
First-ever sighting of a live newborn great white
WEBJan 29, 2024 · It was a shark pup unlike any they’d ever seen. Great whites, referred to only as white sharks by scientists, are gray on top and white on the bottom. But this roughly 5-foot-long shark was pure white. “We enlarged the images, put them in slow motion, and realized the white layer was being shed from the body as it was swimming,” Sternes said.
U.S. News 2023 college rankings are out, and UCR surges
WEBSep 17, 2023 · In a new category for undergraduate teaching, UCR’s School of Education ranked No. 62. Two other new rankings were for undergraduate psychology, with UCR No. 80, and undergraduate economics, No. 88. In the overall list, Princeton was No. 1, MIT was No. 2, and Harvard and Stanford tied for No. 3. On …
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WEBSep 17, 2021 · Effective Monday, Sept. 20, the Graduate School of Education will officially become the School of Education, or SOE. The new name will reflect the scope of the school’s research, community engagement, and academic programs, specifically the undergraduate degree program, which was approved …
Get over it? When it comes to recycled water, consumers won't
WEBNov 18, 2019 · In the research paper, “disgust” is defined as “a strong repulsion to a potentially harmful substance.”. In addition to disgust, the research considered other factors that dissuade people from using recycled water. Those included misinformation, ignorance, and peoples’ desire to conform to social norms. The research involved three ...
Ecopipam reduces stuttering symptoms in proof-of-concept trial
WEBAug 28, 2019 · A team led by a psychiatrist at the University of California, Riverside, has tested the orally administered investigational medication ecopipam on adults who stutter in an open-label, uncontrolled clinical trial and found that it reduced their stuttering symptoms from the start of therapy after eight weeks of dosing.. Positive results included increased speech fluency, faster reading ...
The day the ‘60s protest movement came to UCR - News
WEBMar 11, 2020 · Fifty years ago, during a campus visit by then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan on March 11, 1970, UCR experienced its first-ever student-police confrontation on campus, and the first time a protest turned violent. About 50 campus police, city police, and sheriff’s deputies were on hand for Reagan’s visit, some in riot gear.
University sets new enrollment record for fall 2021
WEBOct 27, 2021 · UC Riverside has released its enrollment numbers for fall 2021, showing a record student population of 26,847. That represent a 1.6% increase from fall 2020, when 26,434 total undergraduate and graduate students were enrolled. The student population includes 40.8% low-income students and 54.7% first-generation students. Forty-one percent of students are Latino and 35.1% Asian.
New School of Medicine building begins construction
WEBOct 27, 2021 · UC Riverside began construction Friday, Oct. 22 of a new School of Medicine building that will allow for growing class sizes and increasing the number of physicians trained in the underserved Inland Southern California. Campus and community leaders celebrated the start of the project at a groundbreaking ceremony at the project site south of the existing School of Medicine Education on the east ...
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