The Princeton Review’s 2013 Guide to 322 Green Colleges gives UCR a green rating of 93 out of a possible 99.
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations, Assistant Professor Hideaki Tsutsui is developing bio sensors for food crops that work like pregnancy tests to indicate when crops are in danger.
The College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research & Technology (CE-CERT) is home to the world’s largest indoor air quality chamber.
The Citrus Variety Collection at UCR is an incredibly valuable university resource consisting of two trees each of more than 1,000 different citrus types. Used extensively to solve citrus disease problems and improve commercial varieties, the collection is one of the world’s premier citrus germplasm collections.
UCR has played a role in the development of every orange, lemon, tangerine and grapefruit grown in California.
