UC Riverside has been named among the top 30 “Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs.” The Office of Student Affairs’ selection for the honor will be featured in the June issue of “Diverse: Issues in Higher Education” magazine. “We are honored to be selected among this year’s top universities and colleges,” said Brian Haynes, vice...
UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox and Seana Nuñez, a staff employment and development analyst, have been recognized for their contributions to the campus by the systemwide organization representing University of California staff. Wilcox received the Outstanding Senior Leadership Award while Nuñez received the Kevin McCauley Memorial Outstanding...
J amiela Kokash, a student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at UC Riverside, has been awarded a UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship, which will support her dissertation research on how auditory regions of the brain change after noise-induced hearing loss, and how these changes can be potentially prevented or delayed. Specifically...
The Wound Healing Society, or WHS, has bestowed its Distinguished Service Award to Manuela Martins-Green, a professor of cell biology at UC Riverside, for her outstanding contributions to the growth and development of the society. The award is given to a WHS scientist, physician, nurse, or administrator who has served the society for at least 10...
UC Riverside assistant professor of psychology Jimmy Calanchini has been named a “Rising Star” by the Association for Psychological Science, or APS. The Rising Star designation is given to “outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD,” according to APS. Rising Stars have published innovative research that has...
Kate Bolton Bonnici, MFA ’15, won the 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry for her poetry collection “Night Burial.” Bonnici was announced as the winner in April 2020 and her book was published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University in November 2020. “‘Night Burial’ is centrally a book of elegies for my mother who died of...
Graduate student Esther Omaiye has received a UC President's Dissertation-Year Fellowship award for the 2021-22 academic year. The fellowship will support her research on the analytical and toxicological evaluations of electronic cigarettes and their constituents, including chemical elements and flavor chemicals. Omaiye, who expects to graduate...
Four UC Riverside students took top prizes in the third-annual EcoSlam on April 22, in which competitors shared research regarding ecology and conservation in “lighting talk” rounds. The event, sponsored by the Center for Conservation Biology, was created as a way to share research across multiple departments. This year marked the first time...
Jasmine Elizabeth Smith, MFA ’19, won the 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize for her poetry collection “South Flight.” The University of Georgia Press announced Smith as the award recipient in March 2021 and her collection will be published by the press in February 2022. “I am thrilled that ‘South Flight’ was chosen as a recipient of the 2021 Georgia Poetry...
A third-year doctoral student in school psychology has been awarded a national fellowship with the American Psychological Association's Minority Fellowship Program. The fellowship will provide Tyler Womack, a student in the Graduate School of Education, financial support during her fourth year at UCR and the opportunity to participate in a paid...
The Royal Entomological Society has bestowed its Westwood Medal upon entomology professor Christiane Weirauch for her work on true bugs — a group of insect that includes plant attackers and human disease spreaders as well as natural pest controllers.
Jones was named the winner of the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, announced during a virtual ceremony kicking off the 26th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 16.
K enneth N. Barish, a professor of physics and astronomy, is a key member of an international team of more than 400 scientists that prepared a report on the Electron-Ion Collider, or EIC, a particle accelerator that will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, along with a detector for capturing electron-ion collisions. Barish, who...
Janet Franklin, a distinguished professor of biogeography in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award by the North American Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. The award, to be presented at the group’s annual conference April 14, is the...
Hollis Woodard, an assistant professor of entomology, has won a coveted award from the National Science Foundation to study the genetic underpinnings of bumblebee queen behavior.
Two doctoral students in the UC Riverside Graduate School of Education are the recipients of the California Teacher Education Research and Improvement Network, or CTERIN, Fellowship. Patriccia Ordonez-Kim, whose work involves history and social studies curriculum, has earned the title of CTERIN Educating Teacher Educators (ETE) Fellow for her...
UC Riverside’s William Ota is one of the few graduate students nationwide to be honored this year with a policy award from the Ecological Society of America.
