UCR bioengineering professor recognized by the National Academy of Inventors

UCR bioengineering professor Bahman Anvari, whose innovations have improved treatments for debilitating skin disorders, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, or NAI.

By David Danelski |

Racial justice teacher development institute wins $100,000 grant

A UCR-affiliated institute for racial justice has received a $100,000 grant that will support teacher professional development during the 2024 and 2025 calendar years, with a focus on engaging teachers of color in California public schools. This funding for the Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice, known as ITOC, from the...

By David Danelski |

UCR professor’s insights featured in major scientific journal

The insights of UCR professor Mihri Ozkan are featured this week in an online edition of a highly respected scientific journal.

By David Danelski |

UCR wins grant promoting faculty diversity efforts

UC Riverside’s Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology department is one of the recipients of the University of California Advancing Faculty Diversity Program awards for the 2023-24 academic year. The program provides support to increase UC’s faculty diversity efforts. Eight grants, totaling about $2.6 million, were awarded. The Advancing Faculty...

By Imran Ghori |

2023 ‘Highly Cited’ list celebrates UCR faculty influence

Researchers rank in top 1% worldwide

By Jules Bernstein |

Bella Merlin nominated for two awards for her performance in ‘Henry VI Part 2’

The nominations come from both Berkshire Theater Critics and BroadwayWorld, Berkshires.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Donatella Galella featured as a theatre historian in new PBS documentary

‘East West Players: A Home on Stage’ highlights the importance of East West Players theatre company, the longest running theatre of color in the U.S.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

School of Medicine receives national honor for outstanding DEI commitment

The medical school won Insight into Diversity’s Health Professions HEED Award also in 2021 and 2022

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Graduate student wins award at local stem cell symposium

Natasha Brinkley conducts research in UCR’s Tissue Regenerative Engineering and Mechanotransduction lab

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

CSP's Arlene Cano Matute named 2023 ‘Latina of Influence’

UC Riverside alum and staffer Arlene Cano Matute has won the 2023 “Latina of Influence” award — hosted by Hispanic Lifestyle, a broadcast media production. Honorees included seven recipients from across the United States, recognized for their leadership in the Latina/o/x community. In a recent announcement, Hispanic Lifestyle wrote, “Through an...

By Malinn Loeung |

Physics graduate student wins merit award at national lab

Xilin Liang is stationed at Brookhaven National Lab

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

UCR wins three CASE awards for communications work

UC Riverside has received three awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, for its marketing work. University Relations won awards in three categories in the 2023 Best of District VII Awards, for the region representing parts of the western United States. In the storytelling in communications category, UCR was...

By Imran Ghori |

Gift to School of Medicine will support student scholarships

HCA Healthcare has a history of partnering with higher education institutions like UCR

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

NSF-funded research aims to combat loneliness

UCR psychology associate professor Brent Hughes and doctoral student Eleanor Collier have received a $642,697 grant from the National Science Foundation to study self-disclosure as it relates to social connection. Self-disclosure refers to revealing one’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences. The aim of the study is to consider strategies for...

By John Warren |

Gerald Clarke’s art featured in the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art

His work has also been prominently featured at the Palm Springs Art Museum and currently at UC Davis’s Gorman Museum of Native American Art.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Anusha Kedhar receives grant from UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council

The grant will allow space to identify inequity in British South Asian dance.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Professor Hedge Coke receives Thomas Wolfe Prize

The distinguished professor of creative writing was recognized for her compassionate perspective on the lives of everyday people

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

UCR startup company wins prestigious NIH grant

Small Business Innovation Research grant from National Cancer Institute will accelerate development of pancreatic cancer-fighting drug

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Dean Daryle Williams nominated to serve on President Biden’s Administration 

The White House made the announcement in September.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

UCR biogeochemist to use Yale fellowship to study the Salton Sea

Lyons to research growing global issue of shrinking lakes

By Jules Bernstein |