Two UC Riverside students have received prestigious awards from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, or ASMS, one of the world’s leading organizations dedicated to advancing mass spectrometry research.
UC Riverside professor Jennifer Gaudette has received two national honors from the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, which recognized both her scholarship and doctoral research on local politics.
UC Riverside graduate student Erfan Shayegani has been named a 2026 MLCommons Rising Star, an honor recognizing emerging researchers whose work is helping shape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and computing systems.
Re'Nyqua Farrington, a graduate candidate in UC Riverside’s School of Education, has been awarded the prestigious NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, a national honor recognizing exceptional doctoral research to improve education.
David Swanson, a distinguished professor emeritus of sociology at UC Riverside, was presented with the Mindel C. Sheps Award at the Population Association of America’s annual meeting in May in St. Louis.
Sara Hovda, a student in the Master of Fine Arts program at UC Riverside, has won the 2026 Trio Award for her debut poetry manuscript, “Night’s Grammar.” “I was honestly beside myself,” Hovda said.
UC Riverside education professor Rita Kohli has been named the 2026 recipient of the Derrick Bell Legacy Award, a national honor recognizing scholars committed to advancing racial justice in education.
Rican Vue, an associate professor in UC Riverside’s School of Education whose scholarship examines racism, community knowledge, and educational justice, has received the 2026 Carlos J. Vallejo Exemplary Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association.
Five UC Riverside Highlanders have been selected for the 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, or NSF GRFP. The fellowship supports students pursuing full-time, research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, fields at accredited U.S. institutions. This...
UC Riverside’s Jamal Myrick was recognized by the American College Personnel Association, or ACPA, for his outstanding career in student affairs and support through African Student Programs, or ASP. Myrick is one of 22 Diamond Honorees selected for 2026. “Dr. Myrick’s dedication to his craft in higher education over 10 years has been recognized...
Xiao Chen, an assistant professor of history at UC Riverside, has been awarded a Luce/ACLS Early Career Long-Term Fellowship in China Studies. With a yearlong research leave made possible by the $45,000 grant and support from UCR’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Chen plans to complete a book manuscript.
Erika Villeroy da Costa, a graduate student in critical dance studies at UC Riverside, has been awarded a 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. Da Costa will use the $52,000 grant to support her research on first-generation members of the Afro-Brazilian dance troupe Balé Folclórico Mercedes Baptista.
Raquel M. Rall, an associate professor and associate dean in UCR’s School of Education, has been selected as one of seven scholars nationwide for the inaugural Alliance Fellowship Program, a new initiative aimed at strengthening higher education’s role in American democracy.
UC Riverside student Sneha Ahuja is one of 12 recipients of the 2026-2027 A. Strauss Scholarship for a project addressing extreme heat through public health efforts. The Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation provides up to $15,000 scholarships to college sophomores and juniors to fund public service projects they proposed...
