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...
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...
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...
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...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, has awarded $17.5 million to a coalition led by researchers at UC San Diego to develop innovative tools and networks to respond rapidly to emerging disease outbreaks. Richard Carpiano, a professor and public health researcher in UC Riverside’s School of Public Policy, is among the team of...
A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow UCR to develop better software architecture for robotics and other autonomous systems.