Bruce Link, a distinguished professor of public policy and sociology, is the recipient of the 2026-27 Faculty Research Lecturer Award, the highest honor bestowed to faculty by the UC Riverside Academic Senate. As the winner of the annual award, announced last month, Link will deliver a lecture next year. "I am tremendously honored to receive this...
Deisy Vaca, assistant director of student success at the UC Riverside School of Public Policy, has been elected vice chair of a University of California council that helps shape academic advising and student success across the university’s nine undergraduate campuses.
UCR Magazine has been recognized with a Southern California Journalism Award by the Los Angeles Press Club for the special digital feature “Deliver Us from Overnight Delivery.”
Homer Arnold, a doctoral student in art history at UC Riverside, has been awarded the George Gurney Fellowship by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Sarah Salisbury, a doctoral student in art history at UC Riverside, has been awarded the Betsy James Wyeth Fellowship in Native American Art by the Smithsonian Institution. The yearlong residential fellowship is considered one of the most prestigious for the study of Native American art.
UC Riverside’s Student Disability Resource Center honored faculty, staff, and students who have served as outstanding allies to students with disabilities at its annual recognition ceremony. Honorees, who were recognized May 27, were nominated by students affiliated with the center based on their “exemplary commitment to advocating for students...
UC Riverside has been selected to host Belgian audio producer and educator Frank Duchêne next spring as a Fulbright scholar in residence. “This is a great recognition of the teaching and research happening in the UCR Music Department,” said Liz Przybylski, a professor of music at UCR, who led the effort to bring Duchêne to campus.
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.
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 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.
