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Our Department, and indeed the UC Riverside campus, continues to be in a period of rapid growth: outstanding faculty continue to join our Department, the numbers of graduate and undergraduate students continue to increase, a new chemistry building has been built.

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Graduate Student Stephen Proctor selected for the DoE SCGSR Program!

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 79 graduate students representing 29 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program’s 2024 Solicitation 2 cycle. Through world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources...
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UCR Chemistry graduate students selected for the prestigious Nobel laureate meeting!

The University of California today (April 24) announced the 2025 cohort of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows, 42 outstanding young scientists and economists from across the UC system who will join Nobel laureates from around the world at...
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Scientists finally confirm vitamin B1 hypothesis from 1958

UCR's Vincent Lavallo and Aaron Gregory who helped prove a 67-year-old chemistry hypothesis. Once thought impossible, chemists generate unstable molecule in water.
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UCR Night at Angle Stadium!

It's a UCR takeover! Come join us for UC Riverside Night at the Big A. Tickets include an Angels and UC Riverside co-branded hat! Be sure to join us in the Gate 5 Courtyard to pick up your UC Riverside...
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May 15, 2025
Half a century of wild: saving Box Springs Mountain Park
Riverside County celebrates the 50th year of Box Springs Mountain Park, an ecological preserve saved from development by community effort.
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May 08, 2025
Mathematizing keloid scars gets UCR 3rd at UC Grad Slam
On April 29, UC Riverside doctoral candidate Angeliz Vargas Casillas placed third in the 2025 UC Grad Slam, an annual competition challenging graduate students from the 10 UC campuses to effectively pitch their years-long Ph.D. research ... within three minutes ... using one single presentation slide. Gulp.
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May 08, 2025
Turning light into usable energy
A grant from the U.S. Department of Defense will allow UCR researchers to address one of physics' most complex mysteries - the process by which light transfers energy through materials.
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May 06, 2025
Discovery: a better, more targeted termite terminator
UC Riverside researchers find a chemical able to kill about 95 percent of a drywood termite colony without off-target effects on mammals.
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