Latest Headlines From UCR Today

• Scholarship helps students chart course for science-to-policy careers 
  (November 28, 2022)

  When six lifelong friends gathered in 2018 for a reunion in California’s Anza-Borrego State Park, they didn’t sit around the campfire telling spooky stories. Instead, they brainstormed ways they could help students at the University of California, Riverside.

• School of Business launches new actuarial science degree program
  (November 28, 2022)

  UC Riverside’s School of Business is now offering a degree in actuarial science, providing a direct path for students seeking careers in finance and insurance.

  Actuarial science is a discipline that involves assessing financial risks using mathematical and statistical methods. Most who study it go on to work in high-paying positions in finance and insurance.

• China response is less visible, not less dangerous
  (November 28, 2022)

  In wake of a renewed COVID-19 lockdown, Chinese citizens protested openly in the streets the past several days. It's a rare display in China, where civil unrest is historically greeted with harsh government recriminations. We asked Perry Link, a leading international voice on the history of protest in China, to weigh in. Link co-translated The Tiananmen Papers, related to the 1989 democracy protests. In response to his role in the translation, since 1996 he has been blacklisted by China. He is a board member of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong.

• Discovery of antibody structure could lead to treatment for Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus
  (November 28, 2022)

  Study provides insights into fighting broad range of pathogen’s viral strains

• Black Friday & Cyber Monday: UCR experts discuss the annual shopping binge ritual
  (November 22, 2022)

• Author revisits lessons of prison yoga
  (November 22, 2022)

  The narrative surrounding the virtues of yoga instruction inside prisons is incomplete, according to a UC Riverside professor who taught yoga in prisons for several years and has written a book about the experience.

  “There is a false narrative, which is ‘if you improve yourself, you won’t get incarcerated,’” said Farah Godrej, an associate professor of political science. “Inside prisons, this idea of self-improvement is used in a way that’s insidious. It becomes an apparatus for telling incarcerated persons that incarceration is their own fault.”

• Experts in Black Friday, holiday season shopping impacts
  (November 22, 2022)
• Tiniest Ever Ancient Seawater Pockets Revealed
  (November 22, 2022)

  The surprising discovery of seawater sealed in what is now North America for 390 million years opens up a new avenue for understanding how oceans change and adapt with changing climate.  

• Archived Newsroom Releases