Ryan Bruellman, PhD candidate in genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics at UCR, joins Science Friday to discuss his research showing how excessive sitting harms even young, active people.
Ryan Bruellman, a doctoral candidate in UC Riverside’s genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics department, led a new study that reveals prolonged sitting significantly harms even young, active adults, increasing the risk of heart disease and obesity. It also found current federal exercise guidelines are insufficient to offset sitting's negative effects.
This year the University of California, Riverside’s African Student Program Center (ASP) was awarded Center of the Year. ASP Director Jamal Myrick, Ed.D, shared that this marks the first time UCR’s ASP has received the award since the organization was established in 1972.
Karine Le Roch discusses the internship that shaped her path to a career in science and discovering a new drug that targets malaria-causing parasites in this podcast.
Gerald Clarke, Jr., UCR ethnic studies professor and member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians talks about Thanksgiving, native history, and the incoming US president.
Paleontologist Ian Hughes and his mother, University of California, Riverside, paleoecologist Mary Droser, are part of a small team that has uncovered wormlike fossils in South Australia that provide a key clue to explaining how a large group of animals called ecdysozoans became so diverse.
After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities left a remarkably enduring impact, according to study by UCR microbiologists Michael Allen and Emma Aronson, and University of Connecticut mycologist Mia Maltz, who was a postdoctoral scholar in Aronson’s lab at UCR when the study began.
