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UCR is leading innovation in the Inland Empire and making worldwide impacts. UCR’s Opportunities to Advance Sustainability, Innovation, and Social Inclusion, or OASIS has secured more than $65M in federal and state funding to develop the OASIS Park — an innovation and workforce development hub. The first phase of the project will be located in close proximity to the main campus and the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
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December 20, 2024
Get to know UCR’s National Society of Black Engineers Chapter
After a busy year of accomplishments, UC Riverside’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, or NSBE, was voted 2024’s Outstanding Student Organization of the Year and Social Justice Activists of the Year. This marks the second time UCR’s Student Life office has recognized NSBE in four years.
December 17, 2024
$1.4 million grant awarded to spur water recycling technology
The University of California system has awarded a $1.4 million grant to UC Riverside chemical and environmental engineering professor Haizhou Liu and a collaborative team from several UC campuses to combat water scarcity by developing strategies to clean and reuse water for agriculture.
December 09, 2024
AI’s deadly air pollution toll
Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electricity to the fast-growing number of computer processing centers. This air pollution, a new UCR and Caltech study estimates, is expected to result in as many as 1,300 premature deaths a year by 2030 in the United States and bring health costs to nearly $20 billion a year.
November 25, 2024
UCR environmental engineering faculty make the Top 2% list
Four UC Riverside research scientists have been named among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in a list compiled by Stanford University and Elsevier.
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