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The Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Facility provides 1,700 seating capacity. UCR experts call for comprehensive electrical grid upgrades. California needs a well-coordinated, proactive, collaborative, and equitable process, says expert report. MED6-189 is effective against drug-sensitive and drug-resistant strains of human malaria parasites.
Scientists design new drug to fight malaria | UCR News | UC …
Sep 26, 2024 · A team led by scientists at UC Riverside, UC Irvine, and Yale School of Medicine has now designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of action. The researchers found the drug, called MED6-189, is effective against drug-sensitive and drug-resistant P. falciparum strains in vitro as well as in a humanized mouse model (the ...
Polling expert says swing state dynamic is shifting
Aug 13, 2024 · A deeper dive into the swing states. Speaking of swing states, a recent New York Times/Siena College poll of swing state voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin conducted August 5-8 shows us why campaigns are spending both time and money in these states: The race can be incredibly close, and the picture gets even more complex once third ...
Artificial intelligence is bringing the dead back to ‘life’ — but ...
Aug 4, 2021 · Q: What sort of implications does this technology have from your point of view? A: I am struck by the possibility of a future in which we might be able to feel more and more like our departed loved ones are “really still here” through voice and video generated to sound and look like them. Programs might be designed so that artificial reconstructions of them even say the kinds of things ...
Q&A: Gov. Newsom's crackdown on homeless encampments
Aug 2, 2024 · Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California state officials on July 25 to begin dismantling thousands of homeless encampments, a move that’s expected to divide Democrats and impact the state’s 180,000 homeless residents. The action follows a recent Supreme Court ruling that gave governments greater authority to remove homeless people from their ...
Federal financial aid reboot impacts at UCR, explained
Dec 12, 2023 · The major changes include that the number of FAFSA questions will be reduced from 108 to 36; the maximum Pell Grant award will increase from $6,995 to $7,395, and 75 percent of students will get more financial aid. For a family of four with one child in college, federal aid could increase by up to $3,000 per year.
Study explains why tall individuals are more prone to cancer
Oct 26, 2018 · Yes, according to Leonard Nunney, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Riverside, who examined data from four large-scale surveillance projects on 23 cancer categories. Each of these cancer studies established that tall individuals are at an increased risk of cancer, with overall risk increasing by about 10 percent per 10 ...
Experts on PFAS/'forever' chemicals | UCR News | UC Riverside
Apr 12, 2024 · Associate Professor Jinyong Liu has studied more than 100 PFAS compounds and discovered chemical processes that destroy most of these compounds by multiple technologies, including a combination of ultraviolet light and common chemicals such as sulfite. He has developed pretreatment strategies for challenging situations and novel methods to ...
Large wildfires create weather that favors more fire
Jun 18, 2024 · A new UC Riverside study shows soot from large wildfires in California traps sunlight, making days warmer and drier than they ought to be. Wildfires emit sunlight-trapping soot. (National Park Service) Many studies look at the effect of climate change on wildfires. However, this study sought to understand the reverse — whether large fires are ...
Is ChatGPT a threat to education? | UCR News | UC Riverside
Jan 24, 2023 · A: ChatGPT uses a predictive algorithm that replicates common patterns, and thus produces text that is unoriginal, unvoiced, and lacking in style. Novice creative writing students might struggle to write with those qualities. Instructors often show students a published story, but students struggle to bridge the gap between their writing and the ...