Professor, two students win Chancellor’s Award for Excellence

Psychology Professor Rachel Wu and students Jacob Argandona and Advyth Ramachandran are this year’s recipients of the UC Riverside Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement. The award is presented every spring to faculty members with a distinguished record of fostering undergraduate research or creative...

By UCR News |

UCR wins two CASE awards for communications initiatives

UC Riverside has received two national awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, for its marketing and communications work. University Relations won two bronze CASE Circle of Excellence Awards from the nonprofit association dedicated to educational advancement in alumni relations, communications, development...

By Imran Ghori |

Chief communications officer graduates from leadership program

Johnny Cruz, UC Riverside associate vice chancellor and chief communications and marketing officer, completed the Leadership Riverside program in June. Leadership Riverside is a 10-month program by the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce in which representatives from local businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, school...

By Imran Ghori |

Graduate students to attend Nobel conference

Zoe Figueroa and Elena Kozlova leave for Germany this week

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Professor Tara J. Yosso honored for lifetime achievements 

Education professor Tara J. Yosso honored by the American Educational Research Association for her lifetime achievements.

By David Danelski |

African Student Program's Jamal Myrick named ‘Forty Under 40’

Jamal Myrick, director of UC Riverside’s African Student Programs, or ASP, is being recognized by his alma mater Virginia’s George Mason University, or GMU, as one of their best and brightest Black alumni of 2023. Myrick is among 40 other GMU Black alumni under the age of 40 who were celebrated for their “professional and community achievements, in...

By Malinn Loeung |

Music doctoral student receives accolades

Chun Chia Tai will present at a conference and start a fellowship in Taiwan

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Juan Felipe Herrera, finalist of major literary prize

He is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalist

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Research paper by School of Medicine faculty member wins award

Study by Elizabeth Morrison-Banks and co-authors addressed abuse and neglect of adults with multiple sclerosis

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

‘Look at This Blue’ is an ASLE finalist 

Winners will be announced at ASLE’s annual conference in Oregon in July

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Staff members honored at awards ceremony

Ten 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 5 ceremony at the Barn Stable. The awards recognize staff members for excellence in their work, commitment to the university’s mission...

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Seven UCR faculty members selected as Fulbright scholars

Seven UC Riverside faculty members are recipients of the prestigious Fulbright fellowship and will be traveling to locations such as Australia and Vietnam to teach and conduct research. The selected faculty members are Mark Alber, David Biggs, Sherine Hafez, Kimberley Lakes, Kurt Schwabe, Christina Schwenkel, and Jacqueline Shea Murphy. They are...

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14 Highlanders awarded by Grad Division

On May 18, awardees, nominees, and their supporters gathered for the Graduate Division Fellowships and Award Ceremony at the UC Riverside Genomics Building. An Academic Senate committee, Graduate Council, reviewed over 120 nominees. Ultimately, 9 graduate, 2 post-doc, and 3 faculty mentor winners were selected that ranged across multiple...

By Malinn Loeung |

Chemistry prof gains national recognition for outstanding mentorship

Jingsong Zhang receives American Chemical Society award

By Jules Bernstein |

Fellowship supports probe of meritocracy ideology high schools

UCR School of Education professor Suneal Kolluri will probe the paradox of the meritocracy ideology in U.S. high schools with a fellowship from the Spencer Foundation recently awarded by the National Academy of Education

By David Danelski |

Parking structure wins award from transportation group

UC Riverside’s new parking structure has won multiple awards from an international parking and transportation organization. Big Springs Parking Structure 2, which opened in fall 2021 on the east end of campus, received the Award of Excellence for Sustainable Design from the International Parking & Mobility Institute, a world-wide association of...

By Imran Ghori |

Creative writing professor named a Radcliffe fellow

UC Riverside creative writing professor Laila Lalami has been selected for Harvard University’s prestigious Radcliffe Institute fellowship for the 2023-24 academic year. An acclaimed novelist, Lalami has been named a Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellow. She will spend the academic year researching and working on her new novel, “The Dream Hotel...

By Imran Ghori |

Postdoc wins prestigious fellowship

Sebouh Paul will pursue nuclear physics research related to the Electron-Ion Collider

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Emory Elliott Book Award winners announced

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke and Sherryl Vint are the recipients of the 2022 Emory Elliott Book Award for outstanding publications authored by faculty members in UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, or CHASS. Hedge Coke, a distinguished professor of creative writing, was honored for her book length assemblage poem “Look at...

By Imran Ghori |

Development director named a “Rising Star”

DuBron Rabb, a senior director of development in UC Riverside’s University Advancement team, is the recipient of the Rising Star Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, for District VII. The award, announced in February and presented to him at the CASE conference in San Francisco on March 19, recognizes an employee...

By Imran Ghori |