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NEWS
May 22, 2024
Middle School Initiative expects to boost college access
To boost college access, UCR’s School of Education is reaching out to Inland Empire middle school students and their families through a Middle School Initiative aimed at helping them get on the right academic track for college. The school is sponsoring an essay contest, sending representatives to eighth-grade promotion ceremony, and a creating summer academy for middle school students to embrace science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.
May 17, 2024
Fruit fly wing research offers window into birth defects
If fruit fly wings do not develop into the right shape, the flies will die. UC Riverside researchers have learned how fly embryo cells develop as they need to, opening a window into human development and possible treatments for birth defects.
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