Regional startup companies developing and marketing sustainable technologies that address urgent societal needs collectively received $150,000 in grants at a “pitch challenge” competition organized by UCR’s Office of Technology Partnerships. The annual SoCal OASIS™ Pitch Challenge was held earlier this month at the Riverside Convention Center...
UC Riverside professor Cengiz Ozkan has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding academic inventors whose innovations have made a significant societal impact.
UC Riverside has received a $1.5 million grant to harness artificial intelligence (AI) for transformative teaching and learning in engineering through a partnership with Cal Poly Pomona and Norco College.
The American Psychological Association will honor UC Riverside assistant professor Stephanie Moore with the 2024 Lightner Witmer Award, which recognizes early-career professional and academic school psychologists who have demonstrated sustained, outstanding scholarship.
Hispanic Coalition of Small Businesses to honor UC Riverside’s Rosibel Ochoa this fall for her work that benefits small businesses owned by diverse people.
UCR’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering graduate school was ranked 76th the nation by U.S. News & World Report, seven positions better than last year's ranking.
UCR partners with five universities in a new, federally funded research center based at UC Davis to advance technologies needed to reduce vehicle emissions and improve climate resiliency in transportation.
Responding to industry demands, the UCR School of Business will soon offer an undergraduate degree in business analytics. Those who complete the major will bring to the marketplace their ability to use quantitative methods to extract value from ever-increasing volumes of data to improve business decision-making processes. As analysts, the program’s...
Margaret “Meg” C. Campbell, an associate dean, professor of marketing and Anderson Presidential Chair in Business Administration at UC Riverside’s School of Business, has received the Fellows Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Consumer Psychology. The Society for Consumer Psychology, or SCP, a top professional organization of...
Cengiz Ozkan, a UCR mechanical engineering professor, has been elected a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, also known as the TÜBA. He was honored during the 60th General Assembly of the Turkish academy held recently in Ankara, Turkey
The perspective of UCR electrical and computer engineering professor Mihri Ozkan about using electrochemical technology to fight climate change was featured in an online Voices segment of CHEM, a scientific journal focusing on chemistry and interconnected fields.
UCR bioengineering professor Bahman Anvari, whose innovations have improved treatments for debilitating skin disorders, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, or NAI.
A UCR-affiliated institute for racial justice has received a $100,000 grant that will support teacher professional development during the 2024 and 2025 calendar years, with a focus on engaging teachers of color in California public schools. This funding for the Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice, known as ITOC, from the...
The explosive growth of hundreds of GIS applications in industry and government has put UCR's six-year-old Center for Geospatial Science in a growth mode.
A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow UCR to develop better software architecture for robotics and other autonomous systems.
Mihrimah Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, is recognized in Turkey for her work in addressing climate change by receiving the Selcuk Yasar Award.
