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UC Riverside
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2003-2004 General Catalog
University of California, Riverside
Research OpportunitiesRESEARCH CENTERS AND INSTITUTES The history of the Riverside campus dates back to the Citrus Experiment Station with its mission to research agricultural problems. Today, the Citrus Research Center–Agricultural Experiment Station (CRC–AES) conducts studies of more than 230 crop commodities. The center's projects cover a diverse range of topics that emphasize basic science and its applicability in solving various agricultural problems. Research results are disseminated to other scientists, farmers, and the public. The CRC–AES and other centers at UCR are described in the following sections. Agricultural Research Institute for Deserts
The Agricultural Research Institute for Deserts promotes interdisciplinary research, service, and educational programs on sustainable and integrated practices that enhance the long-term viability of desert agriculture. Desert agriculture encompasses both production and aesthetic/amenity interests and includes the relationship of agriculture to the environment and natural resources. Air Pollution Research Center
The principal mission of the center is to conduct fundamental and applied research in atmospheric science. These studies include such phenomena as biogenic or anthropogenic emissions, physical and chemical removal and transformation processes, and effects on vegetation of chemicals and particles emitted or formed in the atmosphere. Bourns College of Engineering–Center for
Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT)
CE-CERT is a model for partnerships among industry, government, and the academic community and is one of California's premier facilities for research into air pollution control and energy efficiency. It is divided into three laboratories:
• environmental policy, atmospheric processes, and modeling • transportation systems and vehicle technology research CE-CERT maintains a full-time, permanent staff of researchers, in addition to participating faculty, who conduct research projects and operate the laboratories. These engineers and scientists collaborate with colleagues from all departments in the Bourns College of Engineering, other schools and colleges on campus, and other institutions around the world. They also supervise research by graduate and undergraduate students. Center for Asian Pacific America
The Center for Asian Pacific America (CAPA) supports research in Asian American studies in the broadest sense. Faculty involved with CAPA have identified sites of common interest and inquiry from the divergence of an array of fields. A current focus is the arena of public culture, including such diverse topics as Asian American political life, the changing sociological landscape, the renaissance of expressive culture, and the increasing hegemony of media representation and its self-referentiality.
Transfer student Julie Densmore
(left) and graduate student Susan Perez in Dr. Mary Gauvain's laboratory.
Dr. Gauvain is interested in how sociocultural experiences contribute to
the acquisition, organization, and use of cognitive skill. The center supports research and publication by faculty and students in bibliography and the history of the book. It is based upon three internationally renowned programs. The English Short Title Catalog (ESTC) is a landmark national bibliography designed to record every item within its scope published in Great Britain or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century in an online file. The California Newspaper Project (CNP) is the state segment of the United States Newspaper Program, which aims to record the surviving issues of all newspapers published in the United States in the national serials database and ensure their preservation. Un Catálogo Colectivo de Impresos Latinoamericanos hasta 1851 (CCILA) is a comprehensive union catalog of Latin American imprints to 1851 with holdings in principal libraries and collections in South and North America as well as Europe, accessible in an online file. Center for California Native Nations
The center provides opportunities for research collaborations with California's native peoples that benefit tribal communities and expand scholarly knowledge. UCR is a neighbor to more than 30 tribes in the surrounding area, and the center supports interdisciplinary and culturally sensitive research in collaboration with these communities. Research areas include economic development and diversification, environment, education, history, culture and language, public policy, and health. Center for Conservation Biology
The center assists in the conservation and restoration of species and ecosystems by facilitating the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of scientific information. The center identifies new and existing research priorities in conservation biology and inaugurates new research programs. Many activities of the center are regional, centered on the diverse species and habitats that form the natural heritage of Southern California. Center for Family Studies
The Center for Family Studies creates an interdisciplinary context devoted to the research and dissemination of new advances in knowledge about the contemporary family. The goals of the center are focused on significant advances in family theory, research, and treatment requiring an interdisciplinary approach to family issues. A variety of disciplines, including anthropology, education, history, sociology, and psychology, are represented in the center. Center for Ideas and Society
The Center for Ideas and Society promotes and advances collaborative humanistic research and study at UCR as well as nationally and internationally. It is especially interested in fostering inquiry from multiple perspectives and disciplines and in furthering more robust and nuanced understandings of topics than is frequently possible within traditional disciplines. Individual research projects sponsored by the center need not be interdisciplinary, comparative, or collaborative, but the center does encourage resident scholars to present their subjects within research groups representing several disciplinary points of view. Currently, the center holds grants from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations that are used to offer fellowships and support conferences, lectures, and research groups. The goal is that opportunities stemming from the various programs establish new directions for research in many fields. Center for Invasive Species Research
Through this center, entomologists, botanists, biologists, nematologists, and plant pathologists from UCR head up collaborative efforts with other UC scientists as well as with state and federal government researchers to define and implement critical research on pests introduced into California that present risks to public health and economically important plants.
Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
The colleges of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Engineering have collaborated in establishing this UCR research center. Engineers, physicists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, biologists, chemists, and biomedical scientists explore nanoscale materials, such as organic compounds with electronic properties, and the use of these compounds in developing new or improved technologies.
Center for Plant Cell Biology
This center unites biochemists, cell biologists, and botanists in examining plant systems, such as the signaling and trafficking pathways involved in seed production, photosynthesis, and tissue secretions, and the ways in which these processes are regulated at the molecular and cellular level. Research in this area has applications for agriculture but also for human biology, as it can shed light on the genetic adaptations occurring in response to changing environmental or climatic conditions. Center for Research in Intelligent Systems
The Center for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS) promotes interdisciplinary research for developing computer systems that are flexible, adaptive, and intelligent. CRIS involves an interdisciplinary team of UCR faculty members from seven departments (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Psychology, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, and Management). The ultimate goal of the center is the research and development of autonomous/semiautonomous systems with sensing capabilities that can communicate and interact with other intelligent (biological and artificial) systems. Center for Social and Behavioral Science Research
The center conducts investigation in a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and brings together groups of scholars to build projects of common interest. The center's core research focuses on policy evaluation of issues related to the cultural, social, political, and environmental conditions that affect the inhabitants of the United States. Center for Social and Economic Policy
The center conducts policy analysis and research involving quantitative, historical, and social scientific approaches. It brings the expertise and nonpartisan perspective of the university's faculty to policy making, the news media, and the public. It also assists faculty in integrating policy analysis into courses and teaching students the basics of policy analysis. The center also provides access for faculty and graduate students to large-scale longitudinal and historical data collections relevant to social and economic policy concerns. Center for Technology Development
The center encourages closer links between research faculty and the Inland Empire's growing high-technology business community. It fosters the transfer of research and human resources from the university to business and industry, develops a means for the mutual exchange of information between partners, and advocates the improved exchange and use of scientific findings. Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station The Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station (CRC–AES) is a branch of the University of California's Statewide Agricultural Experiment Station, the nation's largest land-grant experiment station, and the research arm of the University of California's Division of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, headquartered in Oakland. The mission of the CRC–AES and Cooperative Extension (see separate listing) is to:
• provide leadership in the dissemination and application of research-based knowledge to the people of California • provide opportunities for education and preparation of tomorrow's leaders in agricultural and environmental sciences Today the major programmatic strengths of the CRC–AES are in plant sciences, desert agriculture, pest and disease management, invasive species research, and environmental and natural resource sciences. The research staff of the CRC–AES comprises about 100 scientists who are engaged in studies of fundamental problems of cellular and molecular biology, plant and invertebrate animal ecology, and basic aspects of plant breeding, culture, and protection. Most of the research staff teach undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. Their familiarity with current research problems and solutions strengthens academic programs and provides instruction and training for approximately 480 students in 22 graduate programs. The CRC–AES and the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences together maintain 1,720 acres of land for agricultural research. This includes 420 acres immediately adjacent to the campus, 760 acres at the Moreno Ranch field station, and 540 acres in the Coachella Valley. The regional office of Cooperative Extension is also located on the UCR campus. CRC–AES scientists, in carrying out their research tasks, work closely with the 17 Cooperative Extension offices in the Central Coast and South Region, campus-based specialists, and regional county advisors to ensure a continuous flow of information from research programs to the public, the agricultural industry, and students.
Director Alfredo Figueroa, staff,
and students discuss Chicano Student Programs issues. Photo by Ariceli Lucatero Costo Historical and Linguistic Native American Research Center
The Costo Center seeks to advance scholarship
in Native American Studies, with a particular focus on California Indians and Native
peoples of the Pacific Rim. It builds on the expertise of faculty from several departments
and the unique resources of the Rupert Costo Library of the American Indian, a collection
housed in the Special Collections Library.
Edward Blakely Center for Sustainable Suburban Development
UCR is in an area of rapidly expanding suburban
population growth. This presents many challenges such as more crowded freeways,
pressure on water supplies and local ecosystems, adequacy of social and physical
infrastructures for a diverse population, and difficult choices for the area's political
leadership. The Center for Sustainable Suburban Development is a response to these
challenges and uses the region's context to explore the social, economic, and ecological
questions posed by the expansion of human settlement. These explorations involve
collaborations among faculty and researchers in the social sciences, the natural
and mathematical sciences, the professions, and the arts and humanities.
Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center
The mission of the Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center is to
• initiate and improve the formation and implementation of local, state, national, and transnational practices and policies that contribute to the educational, economic, ecological, health, labor, and technological advancement of Mexican/Latino communities of the United States and transnationally, when possible
• provide maximum opportunities for faculty and students to become engaged in research, training, teaching, and application of policy and practices on topics central to the center
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
The institute promotes basic research at UCR
into the structure, origin, and evolution of the universe. In pursuit of this mission,
the research extends from the earth's core to the far reaches of space. Interdisciplinary
research by faculty and students of the colleges of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences focuses on astrophysics, space physics,
solid earth geophysics, geochemistry, archeometry, and tectonophysics. The institute
collaborates with research entities at the UC Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa
Cruz campuses and at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories.
The institute has two major research foci: astrophysics
and earthquake studies. It manages UCR's Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy
and Microanalysis, which houses state-of-the-art transmission and scanning electron
microscopes, a laser-confocal microscope, and other microanalytical facilities,
and the ElectroMagnetic Studies of Continents pool of electromagnetic instruments
(see micron.ucr.edu for details).
Institute for Research on World-Systems
The institute organizes collaborative research
among social, biological, and physical scientists on long-term, large-scale social
change and its ecological, geographical and climatological causes and effects. Research
foci include globalization; global inequalities; transnational social movements;
urbanization and settlement systems; biotechnology and hegemony; the rise and fall
of cities, states, and empires; and climate change.
Robert Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies
The center's guiding purpose is to generate knowledge
essential for the formation and implementation of effective crime prevention and
control policies. It encourages and facilitates research in the social sciences
on basic and policy-related questions regarding justice, legal concepts and processes,
social deviance and control, and research strategies for addressing such questions.
The UC Center for Water Resources
The center is a statewide research entity comprising
the Water Resources Center, the Salinity and Drainage Research Program, and the
Water Quality Program. It supports research, extension, and educational activities
on a broad spectrum of water topics.
UC Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS)
UC MEXUS was established in 1980 to identify,
focus, and augment UC system resources related to research, education, creative
activity, and public service involving Mexico and people of Mexican origin. Its
primary mission is to develop and sustain a coordinated, system-wide approach to
Mexico-related studies in the following five areas:
• United States–Mexico relations in contemporary and historical context, in terms of the economic, political, demographic, and cultural interactions
• Latino studies of the history, society, culture and condition of Mexican-origin populations in the context of U.S. society and institutions and interactions with other immigrant groups in the United States
• Critical issues of urgent public policy or academic topics affecting Mexico, the United States and Mexico, or relations between the two countries, or those that affect Mexican-origin people in the United States
• UC-Mexico collaboration in all disciplines: basic and applied sciences, humanities, and the arts
UCR Institute for Integrative Genome Biology
The institute fosters research in genetics, proteomics,
and bioinformatics as a means of understanding and exploiting the genetic processes
of plants, insects, animals, humans, and pathogens. It includes the Noel T. Keen
Hall, containing advanced technology in DNA sequencers and analyzers, microarray
systems, and DNA colony pickers. Graduate training in genomics and bioinformatics
is offered through the Genetics Graduate Program of the College of Natural and Agricultural
Sciences.
Women in Coalition Research Center
The center seeks to promote dialogue between
scholars, activists, and policy makers about gender, race, and class inequities
within domestic, transnational, and international contexts. As such, it focuses
on women's participation in grassroots organizations, nongovernmental organizations,
and educational institutions throughout the world and from underrepresented communities
within the United States. It aims to produce knowledge about women's efforts to
ameliorate conditions of everyday life for themselves, their kin, and their communities.
Coalition building is the practical core of its work. Activities include conferences,
seminars, public performances and exhibitions, scholar/community intellectuals-in-residence
programs, and public lectures.
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH RESOURCES
Botanic Gardens
The UCR Botanic Gardens are divided into two
parts: 1) the landscaped area around the campus buildings demonstrating the use
of a wide assortment of plants that grow well in the inland area of Southern California,
and 2) more than 40 acres of gardens along the eastern boundary of the campus. The
entrance of this second part may be reached by following the road leading southeast
from parking lots 10 and 13 off East Campus Circle Drive. This area is open to visitors
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, except January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, and December
25.
The gardens were established for teaching purposes
and provide a wide assortment of plant materials for courses such as anthropology,
art, biology, conservation, ecology, entomology, morphology, ornamental horticulture,
plant pathology, photography, and taxonomy. UCR students and other community groups
visit the gardens. The gardens also provide plant materials for research projects
and for the testing and exhibition of plant species introduced from all parts of
the world. Specialty collections include California Deserts, Baja California, Australian,
Latin American and South African plants, as well as cacti, cycads, herbs, irises,
lilacs, and roses. A geodesic dome lath house holds shade-loving plants. An attached
orchard displays rare subtropical fruits that will grow in the Riverside area. The
lower and middle elevations of the gardens are accessible to handicapped people.
California Educational Research Cooperative
The cooperative is a unique partnership among
county offices of education, local school districts, and the Graduate School of
Education. It serves as a research, development, and graduate training center for
members and the school by combining the professional experience and practical wisdom
of practicing professional educators with the theoretical interests and research
talents of UCR's Graduate School of Education faculty. CERC provides a cooperative
forum for systematic study and joint action to resolve pressing problems facing
public schools.
Cooperative Extension
Cooperative Extension bridges the gap between
basic research conducted in campus laboratories and the individuals, organizations,
and communities who are the end users of that research. Research and extension programs
include sustainable agriculture, pest management, consumer sciences and marketing,
irrigation, water quality, urban horticulture, and natural resources management.
George E. Brown, Jr., Salinity Laboratory
Operating in close cooperation with UCR, the
George E. Brown, Jr., Salinity Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service is the only research facility in the nation devoted
specifically to the study and amelioration of salinity- and pesticide-related agricultural
and environmental problems. Salinity research is directed toward understanding the
chemistry and transport of toxic elements associated with irrigation and drainage
waters, predicting the transport of water, salts and other chemicals under irrigated
conditions, increased understanding of the response of plants to salts, and developing
management practices to control salinity and optimize crop production while maintaining
a quality environment and natural resource base.
International Services Center
The International Services Center provides special
assistance to UCR's international students and scholars, offers counseling and administrative
support to anyone interested in participating in an overseas opportunity, and sponsors
intercultural enrichment activities. International educational exchange programs
and opportunities are described in the Student Services section of this catalog.
Natural Reserve System
The Natural Reserve System aims to establish
and maintain for teaching and research a system of reserves encompassing the diversity
of California's natural terrain, both aquatic and terrestrial. Any qualified individual
or institution may use the reserve system under the direction and with the approval
of the university. UCR administers 8 of the approximately 35 reserves systemwide.
Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research
Center encloses approximately 331/2 square miles of desert habitat around Deep
Canyon, in the Colorado Desert near Palm Desert. An air-conditioned field station
with living quarters and laboratories is located near the mouth of Deep Canyon.
A primitive campground and two-square-mile teaching area is available for class use.
James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve
near Idyllwild is approximately 30 acres, surrounded on all sides by relatively
undisturbed national forest land. Sixty miles of hiking trails connect the base
reserve with thousands of acres of mid- and high-elevation wilderness, from nearby
Lake Fulmor to the summit of Black Mountain, at 7,800 feet. The reserve is equipped
for field classes of up to 30 students and has indoor housing for small groups.
Oasis de los Osos Reserve is located near
Snow Creek at the northern base of Mount San Jacinto. This property consists of
160 acres of rocky desert slopes and a dry alluvial fan. It also contains a perennial
stream (Lamb Creek) with some waterfalls. A riparian woodland grows along this stream.
A semi-desert scrub plant community occurs on the dry slopes and alluvial fan and
along the washes. No facilities are available at this site.
Box Springs Reserve consists of 160 acres
near the top of Box Springs Mountains. The property includes both coastal sage scrub
and chaparral habitats. No laboratory facilities are present on the property, because
of the proximity of such facilities on the UCR campus. This reserve has been used
for field class laboratories and student research projects, but other research projects
can be conducted at this site.
Sacramento Mountains Reserve contains
approximately 590 acres of desert habitat in the Mojave Desert. It is located about
18 miles west of Needles along Interstate Highway 40. This property contains at
least seven species of cacti, including one of the best displays of Bigelow Cholla
(Opuntia bigelovii) in California. No laboratory facilities or living quarters
are on this site, but a campsite is available for anyone wishing to use the reserve
overnight for teaching or research.
Motte Rimrock Reserve consists of approximately
650 acres at the northwestern corner of Perris, about 15 miles from campus. The
vegetation is principally coastal sage scrub and grassland with riparian corridors
in the canyons. This land is of particular biological interest for this region because
it contains several species of special concern. Indian pictographs and a former
Indian village site also are on this reserve. A headquarters building contains sleeping
facilities and a small laboratory for reserve users.
Emerson Oaks Reserve is located 5 miles
east of Temecula and 1 mile south of Highway 79. This 200-acre site contains coastal
sage scrub on the lower hills, chaparral on the upper slopes, and oak woodland (primarily
coast live oak) in the valley portion. More than 20 acres of oaks also occur on
one of the hillsides. Several permanent springs are on the property. No facilities
are available.
Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains
Desert Research Center contains approximately 9,000 acres in the Mojave Desert
near Amboy (between Barstow and Needles). It has unusual biotic diversity, ranging
from low Mojave Desert flora and fauna to remnant Colorado Plateau biota on the
highest peaks. A campground and a small building at Norris Camp are available for
class use, and the Allanson complex includes a state-of-the-art research laboratory.
Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management
Under the auspices of the A. Gary Anderson Graduate
School of Management (AGSM), the Heckmann Center anchors international business
programs in Palm Desert, California. Through cooperative arrangements with educational
institutions, including other colleges and schools of UCR, the center is a focal
point for higher education in the Coachella Valley.
The Center for Entrepreneurial Management, incorporated
within the Heckmann Center, was created in 1995 in response to a growing demand
for entrepreneurial education in business schools throughout the world, and within
public and private business arenas.
Statistical Consulting Center
The Statistical Consulting Center provides consultative
services, including design of experiments, statistical data reduction, inference
and modeling for the campus community, and promotes cooperative research between
statisticians and other investigators in all fields of the application of statistics.
The center is staffed by faculty and graduate students.
2004-2005 Cultural Events
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Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains Research Center. 