Cambra Sklarz, who earned a doctorate in art history at UC Riverside in 2024, was named a finalist for the 2026 McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Prize.

Dana Simmons, an associate professor of society, environment, and health equity at UC Riverside, is the winner of the 2025 Emory Elliott Book Award for her latest work, “On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic,” which is available free online.

Rachel Wu, an associate professor of psychology at UC Riverside, has been made a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Bernardette Pinetta’s community-engaged, equity-focused research supports diverse youths’ development and well-being

Allison Benis White’s most recent collection of poetry, “A Magnificent Loneliness,” is a finalist for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

John Jennings, a professor of media and cultural studies at UC Riverside, has won a 2026 NAACP Image Award for his graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s science fiction novel “Parable of the Talents.” The illustrator and his longtime collaborators, writer Damian Duffy and artist David Brame, were honored for Outstanding Literary Work –...

Manuela Martins-Green’s lab pioneered studies on the role of chemokines in wound healing

Tod Goldberg’s latest crime novel, “Only Way Out,” has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. “I am surprised, honored, and humbled,” said Goldberg, founder and director of the Low-Residency MFA program at UC Riverside’s Palm Desert Center. “This is my second time being a finalist, but the first time in over 20 years!”

Minghui Wang, a UC Riverside doctoral student in the Department of Psychology, has been named a recipient of the Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship.

Ting-An Lin will investigate molecular links between microplastics exposure and atherosclerosis

Ryan Milton will conduct AI-based nuclear physics research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Four UC Riverside faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards to support their research. The program targets early career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and advance their organization’s mission. Research conducted with these funds should build the foundation for a...

UC Riverside’s first-of-its-kind North District Phase 2 student housing complex received the Mayor’s Innovation Award at the Riverside State of the City on Jan. 28. The 415,000-square-foot complex, which opened last summer, brought together UCR and Riverside Community College District students in two apartment-style buildings with 1,568 beds. UCR...

Laila Lalami’s dystopian thriller, “The Dream Hotel” (2025), has been nominated for the 2026 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel.

Mahboubeh Ahmadi will study hippocampal inhibitory circuits and seizure-related behaviors

Research shows how the universe’s first galaxies may have generated magnetic fields in intergalactic space

Julie Vasquez, who graduated from UC Riverside in 2024, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The campus was ranked No. 95 in the 2025 Best for Vets: Colleges list released Nov. 17 by Military Times

The ETS/CGS Award honors innovative ideas that boost graduate student success, completion, and inclusiveness

Brian Haynes has been reappointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to a second year on the California Student Aid Commission