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UCR study shows biomass grown in areas of poor air quality releases more pollutants when burned than biomass grown in clean air.

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As Jeanette Kohl, chair of the art history department at the University of California, Riverside gazed at the marble bust of a little boy at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles something just didn’t fit for her. Turns out, Kohl’s instincts were correct, and the 15th century bust titled “Saint Cyricus” does not depict the child martyr, but rather a different child, Simon of Trent, who disappeared on Easter of 1475 and was soon found dead. Given Kohl’s thorough research, the Getty plans to change the label and identification of the important sculpture.

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Anyone who has ever wondered how humans became meat eaters, why so many adults are lactose-intolerant, or the physiological impacts of walking upright will find intriguing answers in a new book by UC Riverside paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee.

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Motivated by hundreds of false convictions, many states and law enforcement agencies have reformed eyewitness identification procedures. Reforms that California adopted were based on solid science while some it resisted were on shaky ground.

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In first-of-its-kind study, UC Riverside engineers quantify amount of Android root exploits available in commercial software and show that they can be easily abused

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Warehouses provide jobs for thousands of workers in Inland Southern California. But a majority of blue-collar warehouse jobs typically pay less than a living wage, are often temporary, and do not provide health-care benefits, according to UC Riverside researchers.

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University of California, Riverside psychologist Chandra A. Reynolds has been awarded a $7 million, five-year grant by the National Institute on Aging to study how early childhood influences versus recent influences affect cognitive and physical health by middle age.

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A bachelor of science degree in sustainability studies that emphasizes social and environmental justice issues will launch at the University of California, Riverside in fall 2015. It is offered through the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies.

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University of California, Riverside researchers argue that some of the most important developments in immigration policy are now occurring at the state level.Their findings appear in the latest installment of Policy Matters, a public policy journal of the UCR School of Public Policy.

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As water scarcity and quality issues grow in California and around the world, a new book co-edited by UCR water economist Ariel Dinar and water experts in Spain and Argentina examines the experience of 15 countries where conservation has been achieved through water-pricing incentive systems.

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Politicians who discuss hot-button issues in online town halls can persuade their constituents about the merits of their positions on policy matters, engender greater trust and approval, and inspire more citizens to vote for them.

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Older adults whose vision is affected by declining contrast sensitivity – which is a factor in the ability to detect and resolve details in low light – can improve their ability to see with perceptual learning training, according to researchers at UC Riverside and Brown University.

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Southern California water agencies have turned to new pricing structures, expanded rebate programs and implemented other means to encourage their customers to reduce consumption. Some of those policies have greatly reduced per capita consumption, while others have produced mixed results.

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Women professors are asked to serve on university committees in such disproportionate numbers that they are deprived of research time that is essential for promotion and find their careers lagging behind their male colleagues as a result.

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The University of California, Riverside will launch a yearlong exploration of ethnic futurisms funded by a prestigious $175,000 Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Walter Clark was a graduate student researching his dissertation when he stumbled upon a mystery that would haunt him for more than two decades: What happened to an unpublished opera written by Enrique Granados, one of Spain’s greatest composers, at the turn of the 20th century?

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UC Riverside baseball players who participated in novel brain-training research saw significant improvement in vision, resulting in fewer strikeouts and more hits. The experiment demonstrated that improvements from a multiple perceptual-learning approach transfer to real-world tasks.

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded UC Riverside $405,000 to design new software that will allow scholars from around the world to help edit and curate the English Short Title Catalog.

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Prenatal exposure to alcohol severely disrupts major features of brain development that potentially lead to increased anxiety and poor motor function, conditions typical in humans with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, say neuroscientists at UC Riverside.

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UC Riverside’s Department of Dance will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Ph.D. program in critical dance studies — the first of its kind in the United States and one of the few in the world — with a yearlong series of special events and guest artists.

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There’s good news and there’s bad news. Which do you want to hear first? That depends on whether you are the giver or receiver of bad news, and if the news-giver wants the receiver to act on the information, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside.

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A unique collaboration between a University of California, Riverside sociologist and the Indio Police Department has produced a computer model that predicts, by census block group, where burglaries are likely to occur.

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Pundits and politicians posit that partisan media like MSNBC and Fox News have polarized the public, making it difficult to reach mass consensus on public-policy issues. Political scientists at UC Riverside and Temple University disagree.

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University of California, Riverside neuroscientist Aaron Seitz has been awarded a five-year, $1.7 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to continue groundbreaking research that may lead to new therapies for individuals with amblyopia (lazy eye), dry macular degeneration and cataracts.

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Patients who are unrealistically optimistic about their personal health risks are more likely to take preventive action when confronted with news that is worse than expected, while unrealistic pessimists are less likely to change their behavior after receiving feedback that is better than expected.

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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, broke the hearts of Americans across the nation. As the 50th anniversary of the death of one of America’s most charismatic leaders approaches, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss the importance of charisma in politics, JFK’s popularity with American poets, and his continuing role as a source of inspiration for playwrights and the arts in general.

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Khaleel Razak has been awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to further his research on how the brain processes information about sound locations.

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A team of researchers led by a UC Riverside psychologist hopes to determine whether children's media characters can be used to encourage STEM learning.

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Pregnant women regularly consume food and beverages containing toxins believed to pose potential risks to developing fetuses, according to researchers at the University of California in Riverside and San Diego, suggesting that health care providers must do more to counsel their patients about the dangers of hidden toxins in the food supply.

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At the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s men who were married were significantly less likely to die of HIV/AIDS than their single counterparts. For women, marital status had little impact on who was more likely to die of the disease. But race proved to be a significant risk factor.

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Concerns that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling favorable to gay marriage might produce a backlash that would impede efforts to achieve equality are unfounded, according to researchers at UC Riverside, UC Irvine, UConn and Princeton.

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Sleep researchers from UC Riverside and UC San Diego have identified the sleep mechanism that enables the brain to consolidate emotional memory and found that a popular prescription sleep aid heightens the recollection of and response to negative memories.

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The John Templeton Foundation has awarded UC Riverside philosophy professor John Martin Fischer an additional $100,000 to support research on issues related to immortality.

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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded researchers at the University of California, Riverside a $60,000 grant to continue their development of face-recognition software to help identify unknown subjects of portrait art.

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Phenomena related to near-death experiences, immortality in virtual reality, and genes that prevent a species of freshwater hydra from aging are among the first research proposals funded by The Immortality Project at UC Riverside.

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California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a bullying-awareness projects for fifth-graders, i-Promise Joanna.

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Do ethicists engage in better moral behavior than other professors? The answer is no. Nor are they more likely than nonethicists to act according to values they espouse.

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Voters who remain optimistic about their candidate or cause up to Election Day -- despite negative news about the chances of victor -- are more motivated to vote but also more disappointed if things don’t turn out their way.

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As Mexico wrestles with improving the quality of education for primary school students, economists at the University of California, Riverside have found that extending the length of the school year will do little to improve student performance.

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“Medical Examinations: Art, Story, Theory” — a conference presented April 26-27 by University of California, Riverside anthropologists, artists, writers, psychologists, physicians and historians — will explore the role of stories in medicine and healing.

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Residents of states with the highest rates of gun ownership and political conservatism are at greater risk of suicide than those in states with less gun ownership and less politically conservative leanings, according to a UC Riverside study.