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Innovation
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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Research News
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July 17, 2024
Microbes found to destroy certain ‘forever chemicals’
A UC Riverside environmental engineering team has discovered that specific bacterial species can cleave the strong fluorine-to-carbon bond certain kinds of “forever chemical" water pollutants, offering promise for low-cost treatments of contaminated drinking water.
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July 08, 2024
Professor joins UN panel on environmental impacts of AI
UC Riverside professor Shaolei Ren remotely shared his research findings about the the environmental consequences of increasing AI processing demands to a United Nations committee meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.
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June 26, 2024
UCR professor to serve on United Nations climate panel
Representing the United States, UCR professor Mihri Ozkan I will provide recommendations to a United Nations panel for emerging research and strategies needed to shape the future of direct air carbon capture technology and "its role in our collective quest for a carbon-neutral society."
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June 03, 2024
UCR joins federal transportation research effort
UCR partners with five universities in a new, federally funded research center based at UC Davis to advance technologies needed to reduce vehicle emissions and improve climate resiliency in transportation.
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