UC Riverside’s new School of Medicine instructional building was recognized for excellence in architecture by the Society for College and University Planning. The School of Medicine Education Building II, which opened in fall 2023, received an honorable mention in the society’s 2025 awards, which recognized higher education projects completed...

Viji Santhakumar’s lab is the recipient of both

Physicist Steve Choi will analyze satellite data to focus on reionization, one of the least understood epochs in cosmic history

Eight UC Riverside assistant professors, whose research spans innovations in computer science to discoveries in Latin American history, have been awarded competitive 2025–26 Hellman Fellowships that support promising early-career faculty on the path to tenure. The Hellman Fellowship Program provides up to $30,000 in research support to full-time...

Tuppett Yates is recognized for her research on attachment and trauma

Barry Barish will receive the IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award in July

John Templeton Foundation grant to UCR will support research by physicist Hai-Bo Yu

The Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH Legacy Award honors one U.S. emergency physician whose research advances care for underserved, diverse populations

UC Riverside received a gold rating for its sustainability efforts from an organization that tracks the nation’s most sustainable colleges and universities. The campus earned the recognition May 15 from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment & Rating System, or AASHE STARS....

Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society

UC Riverside first-year business student Dennis Cha was selected as the winner of the 2025 R’Card photo contest on March 12. His winning image, which features a burro in front of palm trees under a blue sky, will be printed on thousands of new R’Cards distributed to students, staff, and faculty for the 2025-26 academic year. Cha became interested...

A chef with UC Riverside Dining Services won top honors in a cooking competition hosted by the National Association of College & University Food Services. David Murillo, a culinary manager at Lothian Residential Restaurant, won the silver medal at the association’s Culinary Challenge at its regional conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on March...

CMS collaborators analyze data from Large Hadron Collider collisions

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 doctoral student’s research will help advance equity in higher education.

Scott Pegan is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army

Guido Altarelli Award recognizes Miguel Arratia’s work on probing the structure of the proton

Daniel Petras has received the Mattauch-Herzog Award from the German Association for Mass Spectrometry

American Physical Society recognizes the department’s efforts to improve undergraduate physics education

A national student veterans group has named Tamara Thacker, director of UC Riverside’s Veterans Resource Center, as one of its advisers of the year. Student Veterans of America, or SVA, a Washington DC-based nonprofit, selected Thacker as one of five honorees for the Chapter Adviser of the Year. The group describes the award as acknowledging “the...