UCR Magazine's Spring 2013 issue is dedicated to happiness: we present 10 ways people can find — and keep — joy in their lives. At UCR, researchers are finding out that happiness is a valuable resource; happy people often enjoy good health, good social relationships, and good salaries. We're also learning that happiness can be controlled, whether you believe in destiny, divine intervention or just pure luck. You'll also get a first look at the new School of Public Policy, which will develop research to serve the Inland community and the world. We talk to Yadong Yin, a scientist who has, in his own small way (and we mean nanoparticle small), made the world more colorful. And you'll get to read an excerpt of novelist and Professor of Creative Writing Susan Straight's eighth book, “Between Heaven and Here.”
