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News and Events
Library Legacy Goes to Former Chancellor Orbach
(November 3, 2009)
Former chancellor Raymond L. Orbach will stay forever — if not in body then in name, because the campus now has officially renamed the Science Library as the Raymond L. Orbach Science Library. “I spent many wonderful hours in this library," said Orbach at the ceremony on Nov. 3. This building represents a bountiful future for UCR. When I come back, no one will know who I am, but I will be very proud of what it signifies.”
Free Public Lecture at UC Riverside to Explain How Symbiotic Bacteria Evolve
(November 3, 2009)
Biologist Joel Sachs will give a lecture, titled “The Silent Majority: How Symbiotic Bacteria Evolve to Help and Hurt,” at 7 p.m., Nov. 12, in the University Theatre.
A New Wrinkle in Ancient Ocean Chemistry
(October 29, 2009)
A research team led by Tim Lyons’s lab has corroborated evidence that oxygen production began in Earth’s oceans at least 100 million years before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). The researchers analyzed black shales, which revealed that episodes of hydrogen sulfide accumulation in the oxygen-free deep ocean occurred nearly 100 million years before the GOE. Scientists have long believed that the early ocean was characterized by high amounts of dissolved iron.
UC Riverside Researchers Create First Synthetic Cellulosome in Yeast
(October 29, 2009)
A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside (UCR) Professor of Chemical Engineering Wilfred Chen has constructed for the first time a synthetic cellulosome in yeast, which is much more ethanol-tolerant than the bacteria in which these structures are normally found.
Desertlands/Sacred Lands Conference Begins Oct. 30
(October 28, 2009)
The cultural, historical and spiritual importance of desert lands to the Native Americans who live there is the subject of a two-day conference, “Desertlands/Sacred Lands,” that begins on Friday, Oct. 30, at the UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center.
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