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The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) at the University of California, Riverside, is home to world-renowned scholars pursuing research that deepens our knowledge of the universe we live in and improves the quality of life for inhabitants of the state, the nation, and the globe.
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Large wildfires create weather that favors more fire https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/06/18/large-wildfires-create-weather-favors-more-fire
Large wildfires create weather that favors more fire A new UC Riverside study shows soot from large wildfires in California traps sunlight, making days warmer and drier than they ought to be.
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CNAS Awards 2024 https://cnas.ucr.edu/news/2024/06/14/cnas-awards-2024
CNAS Awards 2024 Each year, the Colle
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CNAS Class of ’24 Comes Together and Stands Apart at Commencement https://cnas.ucr.edu/news/2024/06/18/cnas-class-24-comes-together-and-stands-apart-commencement
CNAS Class of ’24 Comes Together and Stands Apart at Commencement Every graduating class from UC Riverside is special,
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So proud of our CNAS graduates!! 🎉🎉💙💛
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Welcome to CNAS Commencement 2024!!
Join us for the 2024 CNAS Commencement today at 1:30pm!! 🎉
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Andrea Barajas wins National Student Recognition award for Digital Agriculture Fellowship research Andrea Barajas, a fourth-year Environmental Sciences student at the UC Riverside College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS), has been awarded the National Student Recognition award in recognition of her work with the Digital Agriculture Fellowship (DAF) by the American Society of Agronomy (AS...
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Sterile Insect Technique Shows Promise Against Asian Citrus Psyllid https://entomologytoday.org/2024/06/14/sterile-insect-technique-shows-promise-asian-citrus-psyllid/
via Entomological Society of America
Sterile Insect Technique Shows Promise Against Asian Citrus Psyllid Early evidence shows sterile insect technique could be effective in managing the Asian citrus psyllid and slow the spread of citrus greening disease.
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Gravitational waves hint at dark matter and Big Bang mysteries https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2024/06/13/gravitational-waves-hint-dark-matter-and-big-bang-mysteries
Gravitational waves hint at dark matter and Big Bang mysteries Study reports very simple forms of matter could generate detectable gravitational wave backgrounds soon after the Big Bang
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Making ferromagnets ready for ultra-fast communication and computation technology https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/06/13/making-ferromagnets-ready-ultra-fast-communication-and-computation-technology
Making ferromagnets ready for ultra-fast communication and computation technology UC Riverside-led research has potential to unlock terahertz processing power
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The June CNAS email newsletter is out!
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Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaos https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/06/13/ancient-ocean-slowdown-warns-future-climate-chaos
Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaos A UC Riverside study shows how extreme heat in Earth’s past caused the exchange of waters from the surface to the deep ocean to decline. A similar slowdown, which would cause climate chaos, will happen at the end of this century if carbon emissions do not abate.
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ACP and HLB: Not Just Acronyms Understanding What California’s Citrus Crop Could Face https://progressivecrop.com/2024/06/12/acp-and-hlb-not-just-acronyms-understanding-what-californias-citrus-crop-could-face/
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Sending major good vibes to all our Highlanders crushing it in this final week of Spring quarter! You've got this! Don't forget to take breaks, fuel your brain, and celebrate your accomplishments. UCR Commencement is next week!
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A Poisonous Diet Gives These Animals Their Own Toxic Defense - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-poisonous-diet-gives-these-animals-their-own-toxic-defense-180984435/
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A Poisonous Diet Gives These Animals Their Own Toxic Defense From monarchs to sea slugs, various creatures consume chemicals that keep predators at bay
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Astrophysicists Offer Explanation for Origin of One of Milky Way’s Largest Satellites https://www.sci.news/astronomy/crater-ii-dwarf-galaxy-origin-13010.html
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Astrophysicists Offer Explanation for Origin of One of Milky Way’s Largest Satellites | Sci.News The satellite galaxy Crater II (or Crater 2) of the Milky Way is located approximately 380,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Crater.
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Could applying medical nanotech to crops revolutionize farming? https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/news/231903/could-applying-medical-nanotech-to-crops-revolutionise-farming/
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Could applying medical nanotech to crops revolutionise farming? University of California researchers have argued applying nanotechnology to agriculture may help growers meet increasing global food demands.
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Coming to grips with a climate paradox: Less air pollution spurs more wildfires https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/06/coming-to-grips-with-a-climate-paradox-less-air-pollution-spurs-more-wildfires/
via Anthropocene magazine
Coming to grips with a climate paradox: Less air pollution spurs more wildfires Getting rid of aerosols, such as sulfur dioxide, could let more sunlight reach boreal forests, helping turn them into tinderboxes. But the solution clearly isn’t more pollution.
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How did a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way come to be? https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/06/11/how-did-satellite-galaxy-milky-way-come-be
How did a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way come to be? Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Extremely cold and with slow-moving stars, Crater 2 has low surface brightness. How this galaxy originated remains unclear.
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Better farming through nanotechnology https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/06/06/better-farming-through-nanotechnology
Better farming through nanotechnology Advanced technologies enable the controlled release of medicine to specific cells in the body. Scientists argue these same technologies must be applied to agriculture if growers are to meet increasing global food demands.
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Research needs on the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship in drylands https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-024-00046-6
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Research needs on the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship in drylands - npj Biodiversity Research carried out in drylands over the last decade has provided major insights on the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship (BEFr) and about how biodiversity interacts with other important factors, such as climate and soil properties, to determine ecosystem functioning and services. D...
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We're feeling the positivity on campus today for your upcoming finals!
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Check out "Nights with the Museum | Life and Times of the Megalodon" with Phillip Stearnes Ph.C. doctoral student at the University of California, Riverside's Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology! Friday, June 7, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
This FREE event will be hosted at the Main Library Community Room, 3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nights-with-the-museum-life-and-times-of-the-megalodon-tickets-910080785127
Nights with the Museum | Life and Times of the Megalodon New research shows just how big this ocean predator was, what it ate, how it lived, and why it became extinct.
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93 Million Years Ago, Climate Change Turned Sharks into Open-Water Apex Predators https://www.zmescience.com/science/oceanography/93-million-years-ago-climate-change-turned-sharks-into-open-water-apex-predators/
via ZME Science
93 Million Years Ago, Climate Change Turned Sharks into Open-Water Apex Predators Their ancestors adapted to warming seas, but can the current population do the same?
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Learn more about the Department of Chemistry Graduate School at the University of California, Riverside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A93sJWrYJTs
University of California, Riverside Chemistry Graduate School ApplicationFor more information about our department, visit our website at: https://chem.ucr.edu/To apply to our graduate school, see the QR ...
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Reducing aerosol pollution causes more wildfires in an ironic twist of fate https://www.earth.com/news/reducing-aerosol-pollution-ironically-causes-more-wildfires/
Reducing aerosol pollution causes more wildfires in an ironic twist of fate Reducing aerosol pollution improves air quality but increases forest fires. We must also reduce greenhouse gases to avoid severe impacts.
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Underwater volcanoes made sharks more fierce: scientists https://www.newsweek.com/underwater-volcanoes-sharks-fierce-scientists-1907462
via Newsweek
Underwater volcanoes made sharks more fierce: scientists Ancient sharks may have had breathing difficulties due to low oxygen levels near the ocean floor in Cretaceous times, says study.
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How sharks survived a major spike in Earth’s temperature https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/06/03/how-sharks-survived-major-spike-earths-temperature
How sharks survived a major spike in Earth’s temperature The sharks we know today as the open ocean’s top predators evolved from stubby bottom dwellers during a dramatic episode of global warming millions of years ago.
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Celebrating UCR’s Class of 2024 https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/06/03/celebrating-ucrs-class-2024
Celebrating UCR’s Class of 2024 Rewind four years ago when most of this graduating class of collegians were seniors in high school and you’ll be reminded of bittersweet Zoom commencement ceremonies where graduates huddled around a screen to not get their diplomas or shake hands with their principals or hug their classmates.
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The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) is home to world-renowned scholars pursuing research that deepens our knowledge of the universe we live in and improves the quality of life for inhabitants of the state, the nation, and the world.
Central to this research is educating the students who come to CNAS to learn science, and who leave with an integrated grasp of how they can change the world. These students, and the faculty who teach them, benefit from a structure that is unique among land-grant colleges: CNAS’s 13 departments encompass the life, physical, mathematical, and agricultural sciences.
This structure encourages an extraordinary degree of collaboration, reflected in the interdisciplinary research centers and the many cooperatively taught degree programs. Modern science is team based, and CNAS embodies that principle in everything it teaches and practices.
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