Analyzing data from two popular Orange County beaches, Newport and Huntington, a team that includes professors from UC Irvine and UC Riverside estimates that swimming in these coastal waters costs the public $3.3 million per year in health-related expenses.
UC Riverside scientists are a good source of information about West Nile virus, which emerged in the New York City area in 1999. Although health officials hoped the virus would not survive the first winter, in early spring 2000 it re-emerged in birds and mosquitoes and spread steadily westward.
Analyzing data from two popular Orange County beaches, Newport and Huntington, a team that includes professors from UC Irvine and UC Riverside estimates that swimming in these coastal waters costs the public $3.3 million per year in health-related expenses.
A wet winter and spring and an ongoing bark beetle infestation in Southern California's pine forests mean additional fuel to burn and increased wildfire danger this summer and fall. UC Riverside faculty experts on these topics are able to add depth and meaning to journalists' stories about wildfires.
Osteoporosis sufferers and victims of broken bones may have the tiniest of friends in carbon nanotubes, according to researchers who found the tiny structures -- 100,000 times smaller than a human hair -- can serve as scaffolds for human bone growth.
An assistant professor at UC Riverside studies performance and movement in digital games, as well as the cultural and artistic impact of video and computer gaming. The fact that the ratings board didn't even know there were sex scenes hidden in the game, puts them in the dark -- just like parents.
Biologists have uncovered the molecular structure of the gene for the protein that female spiders use to make their silken egg cases. The discovery will help biotechnologists develop applications for spider silk and will shed light on spider evolution.
Chemists have synthesized a new class of carbenes "“ molecules that have unusual carbon atoms "“ that is expected to have wide applications in the pharmaceutical industry, ultimately resulting in a reduction in the price of drugs.
Daniel Gallie will present his research on high-protein corn before a congressional committee in Washington. The research holds promise for efficiently feeding such corn to people and livestock all over the world. Gallie's research on doubling the protein content of corn grain adds significant value to the crop, benefiting corn producers.
In November, as applications start pouring into the University of California system, UC Riverside will become the first UC campus to specifically recruit homeschooled and other nontraditionally educated students.
With the November release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and this weekend's opening of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, parents may be debating whether these magic filled films are appropriate viewing for children.
Native Gaming Brings Jobs, Income, to Areas Most in Need of Development. The Center for California Native Nations (CCNN), located at UC Riverside, has recently completed a comprehensive study of Indian gaming in California.
The Los Angeles Review of Books has launched a preview site, the first step in the two-phase launch of an online source of book reviews from a West Coast perspective. Created by Tom Lutz, chair of UC Riverside’s Department of Creative Writing, LARB responds to the decline of newspaper book-review sections.
Physicians can help their patients follow prescribed treatments and achieve healthier results – particularly in chronic disease management – by using a three-pronged strategy developed by a team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside, Texas State University-San Marcos, and La Sierra University in Riverside, Calif.
The Chancellor at UC Riverside, Timothy P. White, argues that tight budget times are not a good reason to back away from investing in a new public medical school in California.
Do people believe good and bad luck can be washed away? Yes, according to an advanced online publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology that was co-authored by Rami Zwick, a University of California, Riverside marketing professor in the School of Business Administration.
Practicing positive activities may serve as an effective, low-cost treatment for people suffering from depression, according to researchers at UC Riverside and Duke University.
Violent crime could be reduced significantly if policymakers at the local level limit the number of neighborhood liquor stores and ban the sale of single-serve containers of alcoholic beverages, according to UC Riverside researchers.
Cuban American voters are not shifting their support away from the Republican Party as quickly as pundits have expected, according to political scientists from UC Riverside and the University of Miami, Coral Gables.
UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White said today it is the university community that must lead the way to a more sustainable nation during today’s keynote speech at The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) conference in Pittsburgh.
As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its fourth week, UC Riverside political science professor John W. Cioffi says the movement’s appearance should come as no surprise. At present, the occupation movement appears to endorse participatory democracy and rule by consensus, threatening to repeat the mistakes of the 1960s New Left and leave it among the long list of failed movements.
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S. and achieve higher levels of education and income than any other group. Yet they continue to be overlooked as a growing political constituency.
When officials in Greece began assembling a team to create a museum dedicated to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, they knew whom they wanted to design the project: Haibo Yu, a professor of theatre at the University of California, Riverside, who is known internationally for his theater set designs.
Attitudes of Cuban Americans have undergone significant changes in the last 30 years, driven largely by an influx of immigrants since the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. But those changes are not reflected at the ballot box.
Why do some people behave morally while others do not? Sociologists at UC Riverside and CSU Northridge have developed a theory of the moral self that may help explain the ethical lapses in the banking, investment and mortgage-lending industries that nearly ruined the U.S. economy.
Spanish-language media in the U.S. play a critical role in shaping perceptions of public opinion among Latino voters and public officials of every ethnicity across the country. They also play a far greater advocacy role for the communities they serve than do their English-language counterparts, says a UC Riverside researcher.
California’s three-strikes law has not reduced violent crime, but has contributed significantly to the state’s financial woes by substantially increasing the prison population, according to a UC Riverside researcher.
UC Riverside graduate student's discoveries in the British Museum and on the Yucatan Peninsula prompt reinterpretation of women's roles in pre-colonial Mexico.
UC Riverside graduate student Young Hoon Oh will attempt to summit Mount Everest in May as part of the fieldwork for his anthropology dissertation on the types of communities mountaineers create — both philosophically and experientially — and the transformation of Sherpa society after nearly a century of aiding hundreds of international climbers.
Citizens inclined to ignore a jury duty summons are more likely to respond when reminded that failure to appear could result in fines or jail time, according to a UC Riverside study.
Scholars and community activists will examine the social, political and cultural implications of the 1992 Los Angeles riots in a daylong conference on April 28. The Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at UC Riverside leads the host consortium.
University of California, Riverside poetry professor Juan Felipe Herrera — known for chronicling the bittersweet lives, travails and contributions of Mexican Americans — has beennamed California Poet Laureate by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Labor subcontracting and lack of employer accountability have fostered unsafe and unfair working conditions in the Inland warehouse industry, according to a new study released by the University of California, Riverside. The report, written by a research team led by Associate Professor of Sociology Ellen Reese, appears in Policy Matters, a quarterly journal published by UC Riverside.
The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a three-year, $5 million grant to philosopher John Martin Fischer to undertake a rigorous examination of a wide range of issues related to immortality.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California's initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
California neighborhoods reeling from record foreclosures also experienced lower levels of voter turnout in the 2008 presidential election. Voters who lost their homes and those who remained in impacted neighborhoods were less likely to cast ballots.
When Ann Romney addressed the Republican National Convention she appealed to American women as mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters. But appealing to us as wives and mothers is how we got in trouble in the first place.
When First Ladies or candidates' wives speak, they walk a fine line. Their first job is to humanize their candidate, who many voters only know through attack ads or debates. Their power comes from the personal.
Asian Americans likely to vote in November strongly prefer Barack Obama over Mitt Romney, but a large portion of voters – nearly one-third – remain undecided and could play a crucial role in battleground states, according to two reports released today by the National Asian American Survey.
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