UC Riverside

Remember to take a moment today - Memorial Day - for the men and women who gave their lives in service to our nation. ❤️🤍💙 Thank you to our UCR Student Veterans Organization, who planted flags on Friday! 🇺🇸 #ucr #ucriverside #ucrveterans #memorialday

Book lays out framework for reducing chronic illness nationwide. Read more ⬇️ @ucrchass news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

UCR is launching an online Master of Business Administration program this fall. The program marks a major expansion of graduate business education at UCR & will become the only fully online MBA program in the UC system that is based in So Cal. Read more⬇️ news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

Environmental Health and Safety will continue to monitor the air quality on campus and will coordinate with UC Riverside Office of Emergency Management to notify groups that may be affected by the air quality. For more info, visit ehs.ucr.edu

Run your air conditioner if you have one and keep the fresh air intake closed and the filter clean to prevent bringing additional smoke inside.

UCR Air Quality Alert: Unhealthy for sensitive groups The South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued a smoke advisory for our area regarding the Bain Fire. Currently, the air quality index for our area is ‘Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups’.

UCR Wildfire Air Quality Alert: Unhealthy for sensitive groups. The Office of Emergency Management is monitoring the Bain wildfire in west Riverside. Campus is currently open with no restrictions. There are no evacuation orders for campus. Updates will be sent if anything changes

Researchers at @UCRiverside have developed a robotic soil-mapping system that shows growers exactly how much water sits beneath each tree. For California citrus growers navigating SGMA, that kind of precision could help reduce pressure on groundwater use. freshfruitportal.com/news/2026/05/0…

Birds clap in the dark to flirt. 🐦‍⬛🫦 Read more ⬇️ @ucrcnas #birdsofafeather news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

What we now know about how #smoking stiffens lungs. Read more ⬇️ @UCRCNAS news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

Scott Pegan, a professor of biomedical sciences in the UC Riverside School of Medicine, answers questions on the #Ebola outbreak. Read the Q&A ⬇️ news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

Researchers at UC Riverside have discovered a surprising new possible use for #marijuana: Treating #obesity and #diabetes. Read more in @thedailybeast ⬇️ thelooker.thedailybeast.com/why-weed-might…

UCR's Brandon Brown sees parallels between life as an academic and tending a citrus grove following his move to the country. Read more in @Nature ⬇️ nature.com/articles/d4158…

#AI agents can blindly cause great digital harm, study finds. Read more ⬇️ @ucrbcoe #artificialintelligence news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

UCR music scholar helps tell the story of salsa #music. Read more ⬇️ @ucrchass news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

Cannabis compounds may boost metabolic health while supporting #weightloss. Read more ⬇️ #marijuana news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

Tony Grubesic, a professor of public policy at UCR, talks about the little-known federal Essential Air Service. More in @NPR ⬇️ @ucrspp npr.org/2026/05/12/nx-…

Using data from @NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have produced the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever made, tracing the network of galaxies all the way back to when the universe was one billion years old. 🌌 Read more ⬇️ @UCRCNAS #JWST news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…

You’re probably safe from the #Hantavirus outbreak, but here’s what you absolutely must not do, experts say. UCR’s Scott Pegan weighs in. Read more ⬇️ fortune.com/2026/05/08/han…