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StratosShare Launch Event

StratosShare is an on-demand car rental company that rents hydrogen-electric vehicles by the hour or day through a smartphone app. On 09.19.19 StratosFuel will be marking its official debut in the Inland Empire by providing free rides, food, and swag! The event will have speakers from the State of California and industry experts that will...

Mini grant opportunity for UCR graduate students interested in community health

The Center for Healthy Communities has announced the launch of our “Community Medicine Mini Grant 2019!” Read More

New Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Center Announced

CE-CERT is participating as a collaborator in the newly announced Health Disparities Research Center under the leadership of the School of Medicine. Other partners include the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS), and the School of Public Policy (SPP), as well as collaborators in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS). The...

CE-CERT’s Eco-driving System Featured in TechXplore Magazine

Connected eco-driving can reduce the number of stops and idling time for individual vehicles, while also avoiding unnecessary acceleration or deceleration based on live traffic information. UCR and Volvo demonstrated this technology on a heavy duty truck in Los Angeles, CA. Their findings, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv , are highly promising, with...

What’s with the boxes and towers in the campus parking lots?

You’ve probably noticed the antenna-like towers and black tote cases that have appeared around the UC Riverside campus in recent weeks. Not surprisingly, they’ve prompted some questions. “Some people are curious,” said Ranga Rajan Thiruvenkatachari, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who is part of the research team that set up the equipment. “Sometimes I...
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Supercomputing Improves Biomass Fuel Conversion

In a leap forward that could be a game changer for understanding how plant biomass can be more efficiently broken down, a research team at the University of California, Riverside have joined forces with teams at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Central Florida to create a chemical roadmap to breach these defenses....
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CE-CERT Announces 2019-2020 NCST Fellowship and Dissertation Awardees

CE-CERT is proud to announce the winners of the 2019-2020 National Center for Sustainable Transportation Fellowship and Dissertation Awards. Three graduate students were awarded $20,000 each to support their research in sustainable transportation. The National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) is one of five national centers funded by the US Department of Transportation’s Office of...
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Steering into the Future of Connected and Automated Vehicles

Ziran Wang, recent mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate, and Xishun Liao, electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student, built an immersive driving simulation platform that develops a cooperative ramp merging system. Highway on-ramp merging has been linked to traffic congestion. Drivers along the on-ramp adjust vehicle speeds and positions to enter the highway, while drivers on the...

CE-CERT Partners with MVT Solutions and MeasureMission to Provide Comprehensive Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Testing

The UC Riverside CE-CERT Emissions and Fuels Research group has partnered with MVT Solutions and MeasureMission to bring a comprehensive fuel efficiency and emissions evaluation package to the industry.
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CE-CERT Alumni Establish Scholarship Award to Honor Emissions and Fuels Research Advisors

The 2019-2020 academic year introduces the J. Wayne Miller and Thomas Durbin Graduate Research Award, a $1,000 scholarship made possible by donors Dr. Jiacheng Yang and Dr. Sam Tanfeng Cao, both CE-CERT alumni. Cavan McCaffery The inaugural recipient of this award is Cavan McCaffery, a second year Ph.D. student studying Mechanical Engineering and working closely...
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New Study Examines Impact of Increased Ethanol Percentage on Flex Fuel Vehicle Emissions

A new study finds that increasing the percentage of ethanol in gasoline to 30% or 78% ethanol (as compared to baseline fuel with 10% ethanol) in a flex fuel gasoline direct injection passenger vehicle reduced tailpipe emissions of particulate matter (PM), total hydrocarbon (THC), non-methane hydrocarbon (NMHC), carbon monoxide (CO), and BTEX toxics (benzene, toluene,...
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Congratulations to CE-CERT's 2019 Graduates

CE-CERT is proud of our 2019 graduates, and we wish them well in their future endeavors!
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UC Riverside Reaffirms MOU with EPA

On Thursday, May 16, EPA and UCR joined to reaffirm their 2010 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) designed to increase EPA’s outreach to diverse and underserved communities by offering internships, joint projects, and scientific research opportunities to students and faculty members. The day was highlighted with activities from UCR’s Office of Sustainability the Center for Environmental...
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2019-2020 Scholarship Awardees Announced

CE-CERT is proud to announce the recipients of the 2019-2020 Scholarship Awards. Ten students were awarded a total of $37,500 in recognition of their commitment to academic and research excellence. We would like to congratulate them on their hard work, and to thank our generous donors who made these awards possible. Graduate Awardees Isaac Afreh,...
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CE-CERT – RUSD Air Quality Collaboration Featured in Press-Enterprise

A $1.19 million grant will bring lessons about air pollution to over 2,000 Riverside high school students as early as next year. Riverside Unified School District teachers will collaborate with the UC Riverside Center for Environmental Research & Technology to create new lesson plans to add to high school biology, physics and chemistry classes about...
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Ribbon Cutting at Chemehuevi Community Center (CCC) Celebrates Microgrid Partnership

On Thursday, May 23 rd , CE-CERT hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Chemehuevi Community Center to highlight the success of the recent collaboration between CE-CERT, the California Energy Commission (CEC), and a team of technology partners to deploy and demonstrate an advanced micro grid system on the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe reservation near Lake...
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CE-CERT Hosts CA Deputy Treasurer and Key Influencers for Clean Technology Investment Discussion

CE-CERT was excited to host the Deputy Treasurer of Housing & Economic Development for the State of California, Mr. Jovan Agee. CE-CERT Deputy Director Nicole Cleary and UC Riverside Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Dr. Karthick Ramakrishnan welcomed Mr. Agee to the Center on May 9th, 2019 to discuss investment opportunities in clean...
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CE-CERT Partners with Local High School Students on Community Air Quality Project

J.W. North High School in Riverside, California is located near the intersection of the 215 and 60 freeways, a location known for its poor air quality. As a result of a partnership between UCR CE-CERT, the UCR Center for Healthy Communities, the Riverside Unified School District, and the Coalition for Clean Air, and with funding...
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CE-CERT Hosts 36th Annual ISKPPA Event

On May 10, 2019, CE-CERT hosted the 36th Annual Informal Symposium on Kinetics and Photochemical Processes in the Atmosphere (ISKPPA) at the Bourns Technology Center. This one-day symposium brought together over 130 researchers, students, and faculty from across Southern California to share their work on recent advancements in atmospheric chemistry. Universities from across Southern California...
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CE-CERT and Parters Host Successful Demonstration of Eco-Drive Technology

In 2016, the State of California funded two technology projects to reduce emissions and petroleum use, and improve the health and quality of life of communities disproportionately burdened by environmental pollution. On March 6, 2019, CE-CERT joined partners Volvo, the California Air Resources Board, and the California Energy Commission for a demonstration of a technology...

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01 Aug
Supercomputing improves biomass fuel conversion
Researchers combine supercomputing with nano-imaging to reveal how to efficiently break down plant biomass and transform it into transportation fuels
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10 Jul
Steering into the future of connected and automated vehicles
More than 1 billion motor vehicles travel roadways worldwide and that number is expected to double within one or two decades.  The rise in automobiles and trucks have led to increased social, economic, and safety issues, such as the more than 30,000 deaths from car related accidents on US highways every year, according to a US Department of Transportation (DOT)
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05 Jun
UC Riverside reaffirms MOU with EPA
A number of environmentally focused activities with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be continuing, thanks to the renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between EPA’s Region 9 and the University of California, Riverside.
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11 Sep
Renewable natural gas can help California meet climate goals
UC Riverside study finds California can replace up to 5 percent of its natural gas supply using existing raw materials and infrastructure, recommends new state standard
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30 Aug
Natural gas engine can reduce smog from heavy-duty trucks
Simulated on-road testing shows the engine maintains near-zero emissions during all duty cycles
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