Aug. 16 is the deadline for UC Riverside employees and students to upload vaccination records for fall 2021. The announcement was made in a July 16 message from Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox to the campus community. Previously, the UC system announced its SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccination Program requiring vaccinations in order to be on campus in...
I n the coming days, Riverside and San Bernardino will remain in the triple digits. In Palm Desert, the mercury will hit 120 o F on Saturday, and will remain above 110 o F for the foreseeable future. We asked UC Riverside physicians Rajesh “Robby” Gulati and Brigham C. Willis some need-to-know questions, including how...
With exam and specialty rooms featuring state-of-the-art technology, the new UC Riverside School of Medicine Center for Simulated Patient Care could easily be mistaken for a hospital wing. That’s part of the goal of the center — providing medical students with as close to real-world conditions as possible to learn patient and clinical skills. The...
C Riverside’s Office of Technology Partnerships, or OTP, has extended its initial two-year leadership of the Inland Empire in the Southern California Energy Innovation Network, or SCEIN, for a further five years. SCEIN has also awarded UCR a $450,000 grant to help regional clean energy entrepreneurs advance commercial ideas that address energy efficiency, renewable energy...
By joining NASA on its newly announced missions, UC Riverside is hoping to learn how Venus went from pleasant, Earth-like planet to blistering wasteland. The twin missions mark the first time in more than 30 years the agency has ventured to Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. NASA also considered missions to Jupiter and Neptune, but ultimately...
The University of California last week shared the details of a proposed policy on COVID-19 vaccination as part of its engagement with its community as it joins the California State University in supporting immunizations as part of an expected return of students, faculty, academic appointees and staff to in-person instruction across the state this fall...
The UC Riverside graduate program in business analytics is a rigorous STEM program jointly offered by the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management and the Department of Statistics in the College of Agricultural and Natural Sciences. The program has three career tracks — finance analytics, marketing analytics, and operations analytics — and can be...
When you’re in a medical emergency, you don’t typically think of calling a statistician. However, the COVID-19 outbreak has shown just how necessary a clear understanding of data and modelling is to help prevent the spread of disease. One person understood this a long time ago. Were she alive today, Florence Nightingale would understand the...
Let’s say you’re doing research that requires millions of geotagged tweets. Or perhaps you’re a journalist who wants to map murders in Chicago from 2001 to the present. You need to find large spatio-temporal datasets — but where? While there are hundreds of publicly available datasets, locating them can take months of searching. When potential...
A new data science degree will increase the numbers of women and underrepresented groups in high-tech fields. The University of California, Riverside, has received a $400,000 gift from the Center for Advancing Women in Technology, or CAWIT, to support a new data science degree to increase the numbers of women and underrepresented groups in high-tech...
