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August 12, 2026
UCR researchers join DOE effort to speed scientific discovery
Two UC Riverside computer scientists are joining federally funded projects that use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. Their work will focus on making quantum computing faster and more reliable and building smarter networks for sharing scientific data and research resources.
July 24, 2026
New tool identifies the sources of fake videos
As AI-generated fake videos become more problematic, UC Riverside computer scientists developed a tool that moves beyond simply identifying whether a video is fake. It also determines which AI system created it.
July 20, 2026
Catalyst discovery could aid drinking water treatment
A UC Riverside discovery makes it possible to destroy perchlorate pollution after it has been captured on ion-exchange resin beads, which could reduce the hazardous waste generated during drinking water treatment and allow for the beads to be reused.
June 08, 2026
Countdown to UCR's 72nd Commencement
A roundup of commencement must-knows for graduating students and their families.
Inside UCR
August 10, 2026
Professor honored as fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
A UCR associate professor of bioengineering has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), one of the society's highest professional honors.
July 21, 2026
Physicist wins top RED seed grant to advance gravitational-wave astronomy
Jonathan Richardson’s project will use AI to help design more sensitive detectors capable of probing the farthest reaches of the universe
June 15, 2026
UCR students earn national honors from mass spectrometry society
Two UC Riverside students have received prestigious awards from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, or ASMS, one of the world’s leading organizations dedicated to advancing mass spectrometry research.
June 08, 2026
AI consortium names UCR doctoral student as a 'rising star'
UC Riverside graduate student Erfan Shayegani has been named a 2026 MLCommons Rising Star, an honor recognizing emerging researchers whose work is helping shape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and computing systems.
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Jacob Waitkus, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in UC Riverside’s Chemical and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. program, has received a $120,000 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Predoctoral Fellowship to support his research on rapid detection methods for antimicrobial resistance. The...
The UCR team addressed that challenge by integrating a wheeled mobile robot, an electromagnetic induction sensor, onboard localization and a planning algorithm designed for orchard-scale operation. The system allows the robot to navigate orchard rows, prioritize important sampling locations and...
UC Riverside alumnus Charlie Gay received the 2026 Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contributions to the global growth of renewable energy. After earning his bachelor's and...
Chen’s research program focuses on developing bioengineering and biosensing approaches for food safety, environmental monitoring, and clinical diagnostics, with a particular interest in CRISPR-Cas protein engineering. The new USDA-funded project builds on that work by applying molecular detection tools to...
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, are advancing what researchers describe as the first continuously ventilated, structurally representative three-dimensional human lung model informed by both organ- and tissue-level experimental data. Led by Professor Mona Eskandari and trainees in UCR’s...
Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, co-authored the paper with Paul R. Sanberg, president of the National Academy of Inventors. The work grew out of Ozkan’s role as...
A new collaborative research project led by UC Riverside bioengineering professor Jiayu Liao has received a $100,000 award from the City of Hope-UC Riverside Biomedical Research Initiative (CUBRI-UCR) to advance a promising approach for discovering next-generation therapies for cancer and...
Four UC Riverside students and alumni have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, one of the nation’s most competitive honors for emerging researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
UCR earned five awards at this year’s regatta, including third place overall in the Cup Championship, which combines scores from races, technical evaluations, sustainability metrics, design categories, and team participation.
Dr. Qian Zhang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside, studies the software layers where those failures occur. Her work recently earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, one of the agency’s highest...