UC Riverside has received two national awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, for its marketing and communications work. University Relations won two bronze CASE Circle of Excellence Awards from the nonprofit association dedicated to educational advancement in alumni relations, communications, development...
Johnny Cruz, UC Riverside associate vice chancellor and chief communications and marketing officer, completed the Leadership Riverside program in June. Leadership Riverside is a 10-month program by the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce in which representatives from local businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, school...
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...
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...
UC Riverside campus leaders honored faculty members for their achievements over the last two years at the Faculty Awards Dinner on Wednesday, May 3. The event recognized 57 faculty members for a variety of awards they received in 2021-22 from their departments, colleges, professional societies, national and international funding agencies, and elite...
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...
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, or NSF GRFP, announced its 2023 cohort and it includes 14 awardees and three honorable mentions who are current UCR undergraduates, graduates, or alumni. NSF GRFP supports a diverse selection of graduate students pursuing a full-time, research-based master’s and doctoral degree...
UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox has been honored by the American Council on Education, or ACE, for his mentorship of future higher education leaders. Wilcox is the recipient of the 2023 ACE Council of Fellows/Fidelity Investments Mentor Award, presented annually to acknowledge the substantial role of mentors in the success of the ACE Fellows...
Five thousand U.S. higher-education students applied, 1,267 applicants moved on to be nominated, and 413 of those nominees were awarded the 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholarship — three of them being UC Riverside Highlanders. Since 2013, Goldwater Scholarships have been awarded to 18 Highlanders. This scholarship recognizes talented undergrads majoring...
UC Riverside Professor Soojin Park has won a National Science Foundation grant to develop methods to identify risk factors that lead to social disparities. Park, an assistant professor of quantitative methods at the School of Education, is the principal investigator for the three-year $273,587 grant. She was notified of the award earlier this month...
The sustainable fuels research team at UC Riverside has won a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to scale up an acclaimed biofuels technology that turns agricultural and forestry biomass waste into a sustainable source of aviation and marine fuels. The patented technology is known as Co-solvent Enhanced Lignocellulosic...
UC Riverside has once again won the designation of a military friendly school in recognition for the programs and services it offers to veterans and military-connected students. UCR earned the No. 3 spot among participating tier 1 research institutions on a top 10 list released March 13 by Military Friendly, a program operated by VIQTORY, a...
Professor Vagelis Papalexakis has been named a winner of IEEE's the Donald G. Fink just months after winning the group's Tao Li Award for earlier career scholars.
