Physicist elected foreign member of the Royal Society

Barry Barish, a distinguished professor of physics at UC Riverside, has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Society for his exceptional contribution to science. Barish was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves,” along with American physicists Rainer...

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Dining employee wins first place in area Toastmasters competition

Moses Preciado is the operations manager at Lothian Residential Restaurant

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

UCR student headed to Pacific Northwest National Lab

UCR’s Samuel Britton is one of only 70 graduate students nationwide selected to conduct thesis research at a U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, Laboratory. Britton, a mathematics doctoral student, will head to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state to work in the area of computational biology and bioinformatics. The DOE Office of...

By Jules Bernstein |

Pioneering worm research wins award

UCR nematology professor Holly Bik is pioneering the use of microscopic worms as indicators of pollution and environmental change in marine environments. For this effort, Bik has won California Sea Grant’s 2019 Special Focus Award, one of only four such awards handed out in the entire state. The award provides her lab with $70,000 to evaluate the...

By Jules Bernstein |

Lalami wins leading literary prize

Laila Lalami, a creative writing professor at UC Riverside, has won the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize, which honors midcareer fiction authors. The Simpson Literary Project announced Lalami’s selection on April 2, describing her as “a world-class writer.” Lalami is the author of multiple award-winning novels, including “The Moor’s...

By Imran Ghori |

UCR physicist named top reviewer

UC Riverside physicist Igor Barsukov, who specializes in experimental condensed matter physics, is being honored by the journal Communications Physics as an outstanding reviewer of manuscripts for the month of March 2019. Outstanding referees are those who “have gone above and beyond what is expected of a reviewer in terms of the value of their...

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Three UCR students represent campus at free speech conference

Three students at UC Riverside got the opportunity to represent the campus at the “Speech Matters: The Future of Free Expression on Campus" conference at the UC Washington Center, or UCDC, on March 21. The UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement invited up to three students from each UC campus to the inaugural conference. The UCR...

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Entrepreneurs win innovation award

A team of UC Riverside mechanical engineering doctoral students received the notable “Spirit of I-Corps” award to cap the meeting of the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps, or I-Corps, 2019 San Francisco winter cohort

By Holly Ober |

Irrigation specialist receives USDA New Investigator Award

Amir Haghverdi, an assistant cooperative extension specialist of irrigation and water management in the environmental sciences department, has been awarded a nearly $500,000 Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement New Investigator grant by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture

By Holly Ober |

Education research group honors UCR associate dean

Louie F. Rodriguez, associate dean of undergraduate education programs and associate professor at UCR's Graduate School of Education, is being recognized by the American Educational Research Association. Rodriguez will receive the AERA Hispanic Issues Special Interest Group on Research in Elementary, Secondary, or Postsecondary Education Award. The...

By University Communications |

UCR professor wins research award from education association

John S. Levin, a professor in UCR's Graduate School of Education, will receive the American Educational Research Association's Exemplary Research Award. The award, for Division J, recognizes an individual who demonstrates an outstanding record of scholarly research in the education field and an unusually high level of accomplishment. They are...

By University Communications |

UCR researchers awarded grants for education and business studies

Two UC Riverside researchers were awarded grants from the Haynes Foundation for research work on studies examining minority entrepreneurs and students with achievement gaps. The Los Angeles-based Haynes Foundation, established in 1926, provides grants and fellowships for research that advances social, political, and economic issues in Southern...

By Imran Ghori |

Allison Hedge Coke receives Chinese poetry award

Hedge Coke was awarded China's First Jade Nurtured SiHui Female International Poetry Award and the title of Excellent Foreign Poet

By Hannah Croft |

Lalami on short list for literary prize

UC Riverside Creative Writing Professor Laila Lalami is one of six finalists for the 2019 Simpson Literary Prize, which honors mid-career fiction authors. Lalami is the author of multiple award-winning novels, including her most recent book, “The Moor’s Account .” Her new novel, “The Other Americans ,” will be published later this month. The $50...

By Imran Ghori |

UCR philanthropic supporter named Woman of the Year by legislator

Concha Rivera, who has been involved in several major UC Riverside programs, has been named Woman of the Year by Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside, for his district. Rivera is the wife of the late Tomàs Rivera, former UC Riverside chancellor, and helped established an endowed chair in his name. She founded the annual Tomàs Rivera Symposium...

By Imran Ghori |

UCR entomologists honored

Three UC Riverside entomologists have won prestigious awards from the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America. Elizabeth Grafton-Cardwell, director of the Lindcove Research and Extension Center at Exeter, Calif. and a research entomologist, won the CW Woodworth Award “for outstanding accomplishments in entomology over at least the past 10...

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

State senator names UCR Chicano Student Programs director Woman of the Year

Estella Acuña, UC Riverside’s Chicano Student Programs director, has been named Woman of the Year by state Sen. Richard Roth for his district. Acuña has been with the program since 1996, joining as a student assistant and becoming director seven years later. Roth, D-Riverside, described her as a powerful advocate for the Chicano/Latino community...

By Imran Ghori |

UCR professor selected as Fulbright-Nehru fellow

Nigel Hughes, a professor of geology in UC Riverside's Department of Earth Sciences, will travel to India this fall as a Fulbright-Nehur fellow for 2019-2020. Hughes was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, which provides U.S. faculty and researchers an opportunity to teach and research at an Indian academic...

By Imran Ghori |

Chemists group honors UCR professor

Francisco Zaera, a distinguished professor of chemistry, has been named the inaugural winner of an award from the Catalysis Science and Technology Division of the American Chemical Society, or ACS, to recognize his “Exceptional Achievements in Catalysis.” The award “acknowledges excellence and scientific leadership in catalysis science and...

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Climate scientist is a Sloan Fellow

Wei Liu, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for his work to improve our understanding of the ocean’s role in climate change and climate variability

By Holly Ober |