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.

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

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