UC Riverside faculty and staff hosted the second annual STEM Summer Camp in late June 2024, bringing dozens of high school students to campus for an immersive, hands-on STEM experience and a taste of college life.
As part of the “Particles and Waves” exhibit at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Nathaniel Gabor, a professor of physics and astronomy at UCR, was invited to present and perform on Nov. 17. The free event was open to the public. Presented as part of the museum’s public programming offerings every third Sunday of the...
Local cub scouts who visited campus on Nov. 3 got an early education in physics and astronomy. The two-hour event was arranged by Robert Sanderson, an instructional lab manager and lecture demonstration specialist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Physicist Nathaniel Gabor at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded a $7.5M grant from the Department of Defense, or DoD, to develop a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives, or MURI, center on campus. Called QuVET for the Center for Quantum Vibronics in Energy and Time, the center’s co-principal investigators are leading scientists at UCR...
A UC Riverside team has been accepted in the 2024-25 Scholars Transforming Through Research (STR) Program of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). The multi-month program culminates in a two-day event in March 2025 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
UC Riverside has received seven grants from the U.S. Department of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Program. The program offers grants to academic departments and programs at higher education institutions to fund graduate fellowships. Students with strong academic records and who have demonstrated financial need and intent to pursue the highest...
A multi-institutional team of scientists in the United States, led by physicist Peng Wei at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a new superconductor material that could potentially be used in quantum computing and be a candidate “topological superconductor.”
WAS THERE A BIG BANG? This event is free and open to the public. The local community, and middle and high school students are strongly encouraged to attend.
Kenneth Barish, a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside, has been elected the chair of the STAR Council for a two-year term beginning March 2025. The STAR Experiment is run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, at the Brookhaven National Lab in Upton, New York. The Solenoid Tracker at RHIC, known...
California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) physics students and faculty visited the UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy for tours of the condensed matter experimental labs at UCR for the second year in a row. UCR Physics faculty and graduate students took the group of over 20 students to 8 experimental research labs (Joe, Gabor...
Kenneth Barish, a professor of physics and astronomy, has received a three-year renewal grant of more than $1 million from the Department of Energy, or DOE, to support the activities of the Nucleon Spin Physics Group at UC Riverside. The group’s research aims to unlock secrets about the fundamental structure of the universe by probing...
Jonathan Richardson, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UCR, has received a grant of $450,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop high-precision, low-noise laser wavefront control capabilities for LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory based at sites in Louisiana and Washington. Such capabilities are needed to improve LIGO’s sensitivity, enabling higher precision...
Physicists Miguel Arratia and Shawn Westerdale at UC Riverside have each been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, to fund their research. Arratia will lead a project titled “Toward quantum imaging of nuclei.” Westerdale will lead a project titled “Developing low-threshold liquid argon time projection chambers with photo-sensitive dopants for...
Rep. Mark Takano, D-Riverside, visited UC Riverside on August 6 to learn about the new Experimental Cosmology Center in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The center, spearheaded by Nobel laureate Barry Barish, a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy, was launched earlier this year.
A University of California, Riverside, study has expanded our knowledge of the structure of the universe and supports the existence of a new physical effect, such as a particle that has never been observed before.
An international team led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has made a significant breakthrough in how to enable and exploit ultra-fast spin behavior in ferromagnets. The research, published in Physical Review Letters and highlighted as an editors’ suggestion, paves the way for ultra-high frequency applications.
Alumna Christina Manzano wore a different hat three weeks ago at UC Riverside when she attended the weeklong Summer Physics Academy organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Manzano, a former graduate student of Gabriela Canalizo, a professor of physics and astronomy, now teaches college freshmen and sophomores at Mt. San Jacinto College, a...
Quantum computing, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics, can solve pressing problems in a broad range of fields, from medicine to machine learning, that are too complex for classical computers. Quantum simulators are devices made of interacting quantum units that can be programmed to simulate complex models of the physical world. Scientists can then...
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.
