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October 19, 2026
UCR receives $8 million in federal grants
UC Riverside has received $8 million in federal grants to help the Inland Empire become more proficient in artificial intelligence and better align engineering education with the needs of regional industries.
The two grants, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education through its Strengthening Institutions Program, will support separate projects at UCR’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering aimed at preparing students for a workforce increasingly shaped by AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies.
September 23, 2026
Making AI more trustworthy
UC Riverside computer scientists found that AI model confidence and correctness can arise from different internal features, a discovery that could help build more reliable AI models.
September 16, 2026
Engineers solve puzzle of Arctic sea ice movement
UC Riverside researchers discover a way to explain the previously confusing movement of Arctic sea ice, offering a way to potentially predict where the ice will travel as the ocean gets warmer.
September 08, 2026
Study unveils chemistry of destroying ‘forever chemicals’
UC Riverside environmental engineers have identified key chemical reactions that occur when ultraviolet light is used to destroy “forever chemical” pollutants in water, providing a roadmap for developing more effective cleanup technologies.
Inside UCR
September 21, 2026
Two UCR researchers named to Analytical Scientist’s Top 40 Under 40
Daniel Petras and Mingxun Wang recognized for innovative research and emerging leadership
September 21, 2026
UCR professor named national invention ambassador
UCR engineering professor Mihri Ozkan has been named a National Invention Ambassador, joining a national network of accomplished inventors who mentor emerging innovators.
September 08, 2026
UCR professor and industry collaborator honored for cleaner-vehicle catalyst research
A UC Riverside chemical engineering professor and his longtime industry collaborator have received an American Chemical Society award for research aimed at making catalysts more effective at removing harmful pollutants from vehicle exhaust.
August 18, 2026
Four professors win 2026 NSF CAREER Awards
Four UC Riverside faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards to support their research.
The program targets early-career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and advance their organization’s mission. Research conducted with these funds should build the foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.
UCR’s 2026 CAREER Award recipients and their funded projects are listed alphabetically below.
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UC Riverside Associate Professor of Bioengineering Jia Guo has developed a new way to reconstruct magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that could improve the reliability of blood flow measurements when MRI signals are extremely weak.
A method for recovering information about light that conventional cameras cannot record placed UC Riverside researchers among the 10 Best Paper Award nominees at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), one of the field’s premier venues. The paper was...
Arctic sea ice may look like a continuous frozen surface from a distance. Up close, much of it is a shifting collection of individual slabs called floes, pushed by winds and ocean currents and repeatedly colliding with one another.
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