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    2025 Virtual Eaton Symposium
    The Eaton Conference was first established in 1979 to complement the Eaton Collection—the largest publicly accessible speculative fiction (SF) archive in the world—and has...
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    Men's Basketball vs. Hawai'i
    WELCOME BACK, STUDENTS! Your Highlanders host Hawai'i as conference action resumes for a 7:00 p.m. showdown with the Rainbow Warriors!
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UCR in the News

Blob-headed fish, meat-eating squirrels, and other fascinating science stories from 2024

Mother Jones |
Wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and UCR PhD student Phillip Sternes photographed for the first time what appears to be a baby great white shark off the coast of California last year. 
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Air pollution caused by AI tech could lead to 1,300 U.S. deaths annually by 2030, researchers say

Yahoo News via The Independent UK |
Shaolei Ren, is a UCR associate professor and co-author of a report showing that pollution from AI data centers could cost lives each year. He says this is an urgent public health issue that needs to be addressed. 
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Studies address what constitutes patience, and impatience, and the factors that determine them

MSN / Medical Xpress |
UC Riverside psychology researcher Kate Sweeny concludes from three studies of 1,200 people, that impaticnece is the emotion people feel when they face a delay that seems unfair, unreasonable, or inappropriate and patience, then, is how we cope with those feelings of impatience.
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8.5 Hours Of Daily Sitting Linked To Higher BMI And Cholesterol

Science Friday |
Ryan Bruellman, PhD candidate in genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics at UCR, joins Science Friday to discuss his research showing how excessive sitting harms even young, active people.
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New method aids in predicting where next big quake will start

MSN / Phys.org |
UC Riverside geologist Nic Barth led a team in the discovery of a new method for studying faults that could improve earthquake forecasts. Their methods shed light on where quakes start, how they spread, and where the biggest impacts might be.
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Sitting a lot is bad even for young, active people

Futurity |
Ryan Bruellman, a doctoral candidate in UC Riverside’s genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics department, led a new study that reveals prolonged sitting significantly harms even young, active adults, increasing the risk of heart disease and obesity. It also found current federal exercise guidelines are insufficient to offset sitting's negative effects. 
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UCR’s African Student Program Center Receives the 2024 Center of the Year Award by the ABCC

Black Voice News |
This year the University of California, Riverside’s African Student Program Center (ASP) was awarded Center of the Year. ASP Director Jamal Myrick, Ed.D, shared that this marks the first time UCR’s ASP  has received the award since the organization was established in 1972.
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How your skin tone could affect your meds

The Academic Minute |
Sophie Zaaijer, scientific consultant and researcher at UCR, explores how our skin tone could affect the medications we take.