UCR education professor wins prestigious school psychology award

The American Psychological Association will honor UC Riverside assistant professor Stephanie Moore with the 2024 Lightner Witmer Award, which recognizes early-career professional and academic school psychologists who have demonstrated sustained, outstanding scholarship.

By David Danelski |

Victoria Reyes wins the William Foote Whyte Career Award

The recognition comes from the American Sociological Association, or ASA.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

UCR economic development leader honored by Hispanic small business coalition

Hispanic Coalition of Small Businesses to honor UC Riverside’s Rosibel Ochoa this fall for her work that benefits small businesses owned by diverse people.

By David Danelski |

Sophomore wins UCR neuroscience award

The Austin and Helen Riesen Neuroscience Award is given to the top undergraduate student in the neuroscience program

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

UCR soil researcher wins outstanding dissertation award

National recognition for soil scientist Matthew Amato

By Jules Bernstein |

UCR wins national award for redesigned alumni website

UC Riverside won a national award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, for its marketing and communications outreach to alumni. University Relations won a silver CASE Circle of Excellence Award from the nonprofit association dedicated to educational advancement in alumni relations, communications, development...

By Imran Ghori |

Outstanding staff recognized at awards ceremony

A dozen UC Riverside staff members were honored by UCR Staff Assembly as part of its annual Outstanding Staff Awards recognizing those who go above and beyond their duties. The awards were presented at a Monday, June 3 ceremony at the Barn Stable. The awards recognize staff members for excellence in their work, commitment to the university’s...

By Imran Ghori |

Two win Chancellor's Award for Excellence

Keunpyo (Root) Park, an associate professor of filmmaking in the Department of Theater, Film, and Digital Production, and Qixuan Wang, an assistant professor of mathematics, received the 2023-24 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement. Park has been on the UCR faculty for 16 years, and in 2008 created...

By J.D. Warren |

UCR’s CE-CERT honored for clean air leadership

UC Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology, known as CE-CERT, has been recognized by Southern California’s air quality agency for three decades of research that reduces air pollution and improves air quality.

By David Danelski |

Graduate students win Dissertation Completion Fellowship Awards

Recipients Wayne Water Vigil Jr. and Giulia Alboreggia are the first graduates with doctoral degrees from the new Biophysics Graduate Program

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Psychology researcher named AAAS Fellow

UC Riverside psychology researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky has been named a 2023 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS. As part of the organization’s 150th anniversary class, she joins one of the world’s largest general scientific societies. Election as a fellow honors members “whose efforts on behalf of the...

By Imran Ghori |

LAist includes Carol Park in new podcast, ‘Inheriting’

The show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families first airs on May 23.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

History professor wins Emory Elliott award for book on Native women

Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky is the winner of the 2023 Emory Elliott Book Award for outstanding publications authored by faculty members in UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, or CHASS. Dubcovsky, a professor of history, was honored for her second book, “Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South,”...

By Imran Ghori |

Self-talk helps Highlander take third place at UC Grad Slam

On May 3, UC Riverside doctoral student Shannon Brady competed in the 2024 UC Grad Slam, a system-wide contest that challenges graduate students to showcase their research in engaging presentations of three minutes or less. Out of 10 presentations, Brady’s psychology research “Thinking out Loud: Is Self-talk a Secret to Success?” took third place...

By Malinn Loeung |

Fulbright awards will fund students’ research in Hungary and Vietnam

Awardees are Kristen Herbert and Tara Westmor

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Doctoral student Brenda Lopez awarded UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

UC Riverside graduate student researcher and first-gen, immigrant Latina Brenda Lopez has been awarded the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, or UCPPFP, to pursue a postdoc at UC Davis in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department. Only the top-ranked candidates are selected to participate in UCPPFP...

By Malinn Loeung |

Ivy Pochoda wins LA Times Book Prize

“Sing Her Down” won the mystery/thriller award.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

UCR bioengineering professor becomes AIMBE fellow

Huinan Liu advances trauma treatments as well as undergraduates’ careers.

By Jules Bernstein |

Water treatment plant dedicated to influential UCR professor

A state-of-the-art water treatment plant in Orange County has been dedicated in the name of J. Wayne Miller, an influential researcher and professor at UCR’s College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology.

By David Danelski |