Psychologist named a CASEL Weissberg Scholar

Bernardette Pinetta’s community-engaged, equity-focused research supports diverse youths’ development and well-being

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Allison White’s latest poetry collection nominated for Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Allison Benis White’s most recent collection of poetry, “A Magnificent Loneliness,” is a finalist for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

By John Sanford |

Graphic novelist wins NAACP Image Award

John Jennings, a professor of media and cultural studies at UC Riverside, has won a 2026 NAACP Image Award for his graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s science fiction novel “Parable of the Talents.” The illustrator and his longtime collaborators, writer Damian Duffy and artist David Brame, were honored for Outstanding Literary Work –...

By Imran Ghori |

UCR’s School of Business building keeps winning awards

Since opening in September 2024, UCR's new School of Business building has captured five prestigious awards for features ranging from its striking visuals, sustainable design, practical function, and safe construction.

By David Danelski |

Professor receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Wound Healing Society

Manuela Martins-Green’s lab pioneered studies on the role of chemokines in wound healing

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

UCR author’s latest novel nominated for Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Tod Goldberg’s latest crime novel, “Only Way Out,” has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. “I am surprised, honored, and humbled,” said Goldberg, founder and director of the Low-Residency MFA program at UC Riverside’s Palm Desert Center. “This is my second time being a finalist, but the first time in over 20 years!”

By John Sanford |

UCR psychology doctoral student earns Koppitz Fellowship

Minghui Wang, a UC Riverside doctoral student in the Department of Psychology, has been named a recipient of the Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship.

By Sarah Nightingale |

Graduate student awarded 2026 American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship

Ting-An Lin will investigate molecular links between microplastics exposure and atherosclerosis

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Professor selected for prestigious SAE fellowship

Georgios Karavalakis, a UCR professor of chemical and environmental engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, one of the highest honors in the mobility engineering field.

By David Danelski |

UC Riverside doctoral student awarded prestigious DOE fellowship

Ryan Milton will conduct AI-based nuclear physics research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Four professors win NSF CAREER Awards

Four UC Riverside faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards to support their research. The program targets early career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and advance their organization’s mission. Research conducted with these funds should build the foundation for a...

By UCR News |

North District 2 housing honored with innovation award

UC Riverside’s first-of-its-kind North District Phase 2 student housing complex received the Mayor’s Innovation Award at the Riverside State of the City on Jan. 28. The 415,000-square-foot complex, which opened last summer, brought together UCR and Riverside Community College District students in two apartment-style buildings with 1,568 beds. UCR...

By Imran Ghori |

Creative writing professor’s latest novel nominated for Edgar Award

Laila Lalami’s dystopian thriller, “The Dream Hotel” (2025), has been nominated for the 2026 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel.

By John Sanford |

UCR professor named editor of prestigious education journal

As the editor for two forthcoming annual volumes of a leading education research journal, UCR education professor Rita Kohl will help curate the nation’s most rigorous scholarship on how racism shapes the U.S. education system.

By David Danelski |

Postdoc receives CURE Epilepsy’s Taking Flight Award

Mahboubeh Ahmadi will study hippocampal inhibitory circuits and seizure-related behaviors

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Startup created by UCR grads chosen for mayor’s innovation award

EDGE Sound Research, a startup founded by UC Riverside graduates that is focused on creating immersive audio experiences in sports and entertainment, will receive the city of Riverside’s Innovation Award.

By David Danelski |

A UCR astrophysicist is now an asteroid

A scientist, his asteroid, and a happy hour

By Jules Bernstein |

Tango mandarin is ‘2026 Flavor of the Year’ in Spain and Portugal

A European trade association chooses the UCR-developed Tango mandarin as "Flavor of the Year" in Spain and Portugal.

By David Danelski |

UCR scientists win 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize

Research shows how the universe’s first galaxies may have generated magnetic fields in intergalactic space

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

UCR alumna awarded Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Julie Vasquez, who graduated from UC Riverside in 2024, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By Yash Sunkesula |