Expanding Pomegranate Production: John Chater is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside with a focus on pomegranate research. He is building on the work of his grandfather, S. John Chater, who was a maintenance worker at hospital but developed a cult following among rare fruit growers in California for developing new varieties of pomegranates.
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Carrying on work of his grandfather, a UC Riverside graduate student is working to better understand the commercial potential of little-known pomegranate varieties. The researchers want consumers to be able to go to the supermarket, and, like apples and citrus, be able to buy different varieties of pomegranates that vary in sweetness, seed hardness and color. (The varieties Chater is studying range in color from green to yellow to pink to orange to red to nearly purple.)
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A new study by a UC Riverside psychology professor proves that even optimists get the blues. Turns out, as the moment of uncertain news draws nearer, bracing for the worst comes as second nature to optimists and pessimists alike. Professor Kate Sweeny said that although this finding may have been surprising at first, it is clear that bracing for bad news has benefits – as this type of well-timed pessimism carries little emotional cost, and it protects people from the harsh blow of bad news.
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