Two UC Riverside doctoral students have been awarded prestigious Fulbright Hays fellowships that will fund their research abroad. Sean Keenan, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in history, and Hannah Snavely, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology, were notified Sept. 23 that they were awarded Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad...

Annual award is given by oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education

Roya Zandi is an expert on the physics and biophysics of virus formation

Viji Santhakumar will serve a three-year term

New fellows are nominated and elected by a majority vote of the current membership

Sika Zheng in the School of Medicine has received a grant of $250,000 from the National Institutes of Health

A team of UC Riverside doctoral students researching honey bee health won an honorable mention in the Wilbur-Ellis Innovation Awards. Sponsored by Wilbur-Wllis, an agricultural company, the competition invited student teams from U.S. colleges and universities to propose better approaches for providing food for a growing global population. UCR’s...

A start-up that originated from a UC Riverside professor’s research is among the companies cited in a recent scientific journal article in Nature Nanotechnology as being at the forefront of developing nanoneedle technology. The authors call Basilard BioTech one of the “major players in the evolution of a viable nanoneedle technology for sensing and...

John Martin Fischer, a distinguished professor of philosophy at UC Riverside, has been invited to deliver the 18th Annual Harvard Review of Philosophy Lecture. Hosted by the philosophy journal and Harvard University’s Department of Philosophy, the lecture series has featured top scholars in the field of philosophy. Fischer is scheduled to speak at...

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

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

Mohsen Lesani is an associate professor of computer science and engineering

UC Riverside’s Student Success Center has won an award for its design from a national industry group. The Design Build Institute of America recognized the new campus building as part of its annual National Project/Team awards announced this month. A panel of industry experts selected the top 30 projects in 10 categories that represent the best in...

Nine UC Riverside staff members were honored by UCR Staff Assembly as part of its annual Outstanding Staff Awards. The awards were presented at an afternoon ceremony Wednesday, June 29, at the Alumni and Visitors Center. It was the first in-person presentation of the awards since 2019. The awards recognize staff members for excellence in their work...

UC Riverside Information Technology Solutions, or ITS –campus’ central information technology organization–won the inaugural Google Cloud Hero Cup against competitors from UC Santa Barbara and San Diego State University. The gamified Google Cloud training took place over the course of three hours on Friday, June 24. Each University was represented...

UC Riverside won a top award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, for a student recruitment brochure that showcases the campus’ welcoming and diverse community. In the Circle of Excellence Awards, announced June 22, UCR’s University Communications won a gold award in the student recruitment publications category...

Barry Barish, a distinguished professor of physics at UC Riverside, has been conferred an honorary doctorate by the Universitat de València for his work in experimental physics and discovery of gravitational waves. The recognition is the highest honor given by the university, which is one of the oldest in Spain and considered one of the country’s...

Jessie Bridgewater, a doctoral student pursuing a Ph.D. in developmental psychology at UC Riverside, was awarded the University of California President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship. The $30,000 award, established as part of The UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Doctoral Diversity Initiative (DDI), aims to support underrepresented Ph.D...

Doctoral student Elena Kozlova has received a $25,000 grant from the food and beverage company Danone North America to explore how the gut microbiome, probiotics, and yogurt help support and maintain human health and wellness. The 2021-2022 Danone North America Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant will help Kozlova study how the...

Alexis Weatherspoon, a graduate student at UC Riverside’s School of Education, has been accepted as one of three 2022 John Smartt Summer Scholars at the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Weatherspoon is working on a master’s degree in diversity and equity and is a TRIO Scholars graduate mentor who participated in the Chancellor’s...