Awardees are Kristen Herbert and Tara Westmor

Awards were presented April 5

Potential applications include drug delivery

Stipends will support their ongoing research

Eclipse enthusiast Morris Maduro joins millions of people along path of totality

UC Riverside-led study focused on older people living with HIV

Budding neuroscientist Erik Hakopian provided academic mentorship to UCR students

Weiwei Zhang’s research focuses on perception, attention, memory, and higher cognition

Aiden Wilkin will use the funds to continue working in the experimental LIGO group

Successful trapping of electrons could lead to new quantum computing architectures

A new astronomy course at UC Riverside offers undergraduates hands-on use of a telescope

Natasha Brinkley conducts research in UCR’s Tissue Regenerative Engineering and Mechanotransduction lab

The medical school won Insight into Diversity’s Health Professions HEED Award also in 2021 and 2022

Xilin Liang is stationed at Brookhaven National Lab

Attendees included National Academy of Sciences members and prominent scientists from UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Stanford University, University of Toronto SickKids Research Institute, and City of Hope

HCA Healthcare has a history of partnering with higher education institutions like UCR

UC Riverside-led study focuses on the oncoprotein MYC

Small Business Innovation Research grant from National Cancer Institute will accelerate development of pancreatic cancer-fighting drug

Consortium will work on accelerating novel regenerative medicine therapies

Sean Preins and Peter Carney won two of only three awards given at the 2023 Electron-Ion Collider User Group meeting