<p>NIH grant will allow UC Riverside-led team to focus on long non-coding RNAs in Plasmodium falciparum</p>

<p>After a busy year of accomplishments, UC Riverside’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, or NSBE, was voted 2024’s Outstanding Student Organization of the Year and Social Justice Activists of the Year. This marks the second time UCR’s Student Life office has recognized NSBE in four years.</p>

<p>Scientists have discovered a way to remove toxic compounds from potatoes and tomatoes, making them safer to eat and easier to store. The breakthrough could cut food waste and enhance crop farming in extreme environments, like outer space.</p>

<p>Patience — like its corollary impatience — has always been a sort of “I know it when I see it” concept. And that didn’t sit well with UC Riverside psychology researcher Kate Sweeny.</p> <p>“Philosophers and religious scholars call patience a virtue, yet most people claim to be impatient,” Sweeny said. “That made me wonder if maybe patience is less about being a good person and more about how we deal with day-to-day frustrations.”</p> <p>For purposes of her research, Sweeny sought to better define what constitutes patience, and impatience, and the factors that determine them.</p>