Tag Archive: UC Riverside

Introducing UC Santa Barbara’s new Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology

By Lara Bloom. On August 15, 2022, UC Santa Barbara welcomed Josh Bright as their third Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology (IT) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). Bright is deeply committed to the University of California (UC) and its…
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month via Campus Land Acknowledgements

Native American Heritage Month

By Syliva Condro. November is Native American Heritage Month. Enjoy a collection of UC campus land acknowledgments to learn more about the historical culture and the contemporary presence of indigenous people in our area. Take a moment to review Read more about Celebrating Native American Heritage Month via Campus Land Acknowledgements

Project Genesis Is Laying the Groundwork for UCR’s Digital Transformation

Project Genesis: Taking UC Riverside to Infin-IT and Beyond

By Alexandra Chrystal. The abrupt global shift to remote teaching and working in response to the coronavirus pandemic caused the Chronicle of Higher Education to postulate that “the institutions that will thrive in the future will be the ones that…
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Supporting the Tech behind Campus COVID-19 Testing

Assistant professor Juliet Morrison test run equipment in the COVID-19 testing lab on Monday, August 10, 2020, at the Multidisciplinary Research Building at UC Riverside . Researchers are preparing the lab that will be used for rapidly testing students, staff, and faculty members. (UCR/Stan Lim)

By Alexandra Chrystal. COVID-19 presented UCR with many new challenges. Access to technology that allows us to continue to learn, teach, and work remotely is now a requirement rather than a convenience, and ITS is proud to have helped mobilize…
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The Future Is Now: UC Institute for Prediction Technology

A person's brain, lit up, with connection points

By Jeané Blunt. Using technology to predict the future sounds like something straight out of a movie, possibly starring Tom Cruise. In reality, the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology (UCIPT) is a multi-disciplinary, multi-campus organization that leverages…
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Register: Feb. 17 Labor, Automation, and Agriculture Webinar

oranges on a tree

Register to attend the Labor and Automation in California Agriculture: Equity, Productivity & Resilience with Tom Harmon webinar on February 17 at 12 pm. Tom Harmon is a professor and director of the UC Merced Department of Civil &…
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How ITS Has Helped UCR Transition to Remote Learning

ITS provides drive-thru distribution of laptops in its Loan2Learn program. (UCR/ITS)

By Imran Ghori. Ensuring that UC Riverside students, faculty, and staff members can access proper equipment and technology has been a key part of the campus’ transition to remote learning and working. Information Technology Solutions, or ITS,…
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Free Dataset Archive Helps Researchers Quickly Find a Needle in a Haystack

The UCR Spatio-temporal Active Repository, or UCR STAR.

By Holly Ober. 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…
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UC Irvine, UC Riverside Scientists Identify a New World for Hackers

(From left) Mohammad Al Faruque, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science; Arnav Malawade, a graduate student in Al Faruque’s lab; John Chaput, professor of pharmaceutical sciences; and Sina Faezi, also a graduate student in Al Faruque’s lab.

By Brian Bell. During the DNA synthesis process in a laboratory, recordings can be made of the subtle, telltale noises made by synthesis machines. And those captured sounds can be used to reverse-engineer valuable, custom-designed genetic materials used in pharmaceuticals,…
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