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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
UC Riverside Athletics Director Wesley Mallette has been named one of the “100 Most Impactful People in Men’s College Basketball” by a sports media organization. The 4th annual list released recently by Silver Waves Media includes coaches, directors, event operators, executives, and other professionals seen as making a difference at the highest...
Two of professors in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering have received Amazon Research Awards to fund their groundbreaking work in computing and electronics. Amit Roy-Chowdhury, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Bourns Family Faculty Fellow, received $70,000 plus $20,000 computation credits from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to...
