When Harvest Shared Service Center (HSSC) was formed in July 2013, the Academic Personnel Services (APSU) division was formed to coordinate and streamline Academic services for the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS).
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CNAS Science News

May 08, 2025
Turning light into usable energy
A grant from the U.S. Department of Defense will allow UCR researchers to address one of physics' most complex mysteries - the process by which light transfers energy through materials.

May 08, 2025
Mathematizing keloid scars gets UCR 3rd at UC Grad Slam
On April 29, UC Riverside doctoral candidate Angeliz Vargas Casillas placed third in the 2025 UC Grad Slam, an annual competition challenging graduate students from the 10 UC campuses to effectively pitch their years-long Ph.D. research ... within three minutes ... using one single presentation slide. Gulp.

May 06, 2025
Discovery: a better, more targeted termite terminator
UC Riverside researchers find a chemical able to kill about 95 percent of a drywood termite colony without off-target effects on mammals.

May 02, 2025
Toxic comeback looms for upholstered furniture
UC Riverside professor of environmental toxicology, David Volz argues that California lawmakers should prevent furniture manufacturers from going back to using toxic, ineffective chemical flame retardants.