Economics Professor Ozkan Eren has received a $244,721 grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The two-year grant will be used to study the long-term effects of juvenile incarceration and its spillover effects on family members. Eren’s research will involve two components. In the first, he will investigate the relationships among juvenile...
Sang-Hee Lee, a UC Riverside professor of anthropology, has been honored by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, or AABA, for outstanding public engagement in the field. Lee is the recipient of the 2025 AABA and Leakey Foundation Communication & Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith. Noting the importance of promoting...
UC Riverside received a $300,000 fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Crystal Mun-hye Baik, an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies. The fellowship is part of Mellon’s New Directions program, which assists faculty members in the humanities and social sciences in attaining their PhDs and acquiring training...
Georg Michels, a UCR professor of history, has received a $60,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, to support an upcoming book project. The title of Michels’ accepted NEH proposal is “Protect Us Against the Cruelty… of Christian Monarchs: Ottoman Support for Ukrainian Resistance Against the Russian Empire (1660...
UCR professors Rachel Wu, Eunsoo Cho and Mahesh Raj Neupane have each received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE, according to a recent announcement from The White House.
With the help of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Engaged Learning, or CUREL, recent graduates of UC Riverside racked up over $300,000 worth of funding for the 2024-25 academic year to pursue their studies and research.
UCR public policy and sociology professor Sharon Oselin has received a Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship Award, which provides her with $16,000 toward her study of the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated people when they seek employment.