This summer, Jacqueline Aguirre De La O will begin a five-year Department of State fellowship that will pave the way for a career in the U.S. Foreign Service. Soon after, Kathy Chacon will head to the United Kingdom to start a master’s in film studies as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. While the two UCR alums are pursuing different career paths, they share a few things in common: both are Latina women, both are first-generation college students from the Inland Empire, and both credit UC Riverside with supporting and empowering them on their educational journeys.

A fungus devastating frogs and toads on nearly every continent may have an Achilles heel. Scientists have discovered a virus that infects the fungus, and that could be engineered to save the amphibians.