UCR physicists receive DOE grants as early career scientists

Miguel Arratia and Shawn Westerdale have each been awarded $875,000 over five years

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

NSF funds instrumentation in lab linked to LIGO research

Physicist Jon Richardson is grant’s principal investigator

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

School of Medicine Pathway Program wins national recognition

The California Medicine Scholars Program has received the Insight Into Diversity magazine 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Graduate students recognized for academic excellence and research achievements

Stipends will support their ongoing research

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Undergraduate wins UC Graduate Deans’ Leadership and Research Award

Budding neuroscientist Erik Hakopian provided academic mentorship to UCR students

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 |

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 |

Physicist ranked eighth top female scientist in the world

The rankings are published by the portal Research.com

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Transfer student wins award at his first conference

Luis Garabito was recognized at the Electron Ion Collider Group Meeting held in New York

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

School of Medicine receives prestigious STEM award

Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine honors UCR medical school for helping students from underrepresented groups enter STEM fields

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Infectious disease expert recognized for innovation and leadership

For her research excellence and science leadership, Karine Le Roch, the director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vector Biology and a professor of molecular, cell and systems biology at UC Riverside, has been awarded the 2021 IIGB Natasha V. Raikhel Award in Research Innovation and Science Leadership. Le Roch has broad expertise in drug...

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Book on shelter animals receives Distinguished Book Award

“The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals” concludes that animal welfare is also a social justice issue

By Holly Ober |

Laila Lalami winner of 2020 Arab American Book Award

Lalami’s novel “The Other Americans” was selected as the winner in the fiction category

By Jessica Weber |

UCR creative writing professor wins literary grant

Tod Goldberg’s “The Outside In” was the first essay awarded a grant as part of a California Desert Arts Council initiative

By Jessica Weber |

Two UCR professors awarded career enhancement fellowships

Armando García and María Regina Firmino-Castillo are both recipients of 12-month fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation

By University Communications |

UCR distinguished professor named Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Allison Hedge Coke, a distinguished professor in the Department of Creative Writing, was named the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals for the spring 2020 semester at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

By Jessica Weber |