Awards for June 27th, 2018

Bourns Professor’s Project Funded in Energy Frontier Research Center at Oak Ridge National Lab

Jianzhong Wu , a chemical engineering professor at the Bourns College of Engineering, has received funding from the Department of Energy to establish computational techniques to predict charge transport in nanostructured materials during charge-discharge cycling of electrochemical devices. The findings will contribute to the development of new...

By University Communications |

UCR Creative Writing Assistant Professor Nominated for 2018 Ohioana Book Award

Deanne Stillman, a member of the core faculty at UCR’s Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing program, is a finalist for the 2018 Ohioana Book Awards . The awards, first given in 1942, are the second-oldest state literary prizes in the nation and honor outstanding works by authors from Ohio. Stillman’s work of narrative nonfiction, “ Blood...

By Jessica Weber |

UCR Alumna Becomes Fourth Woman to Serve as SACNAS President

onia Zárate, who received her doctorate in molecular plant biology at UCR in 2007, has been elected to serve as president of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science , or SACNAS. Her four-year term, which includes one year as the president-elect, two years as president, and one year as past president...

By Madeline Adamo |