Content Tagged with: College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences

Four UCR students win 2019-20 Fulbright awards

UCR’s Fulbright recipients will conduct research in Italy, Chile, Australia, and Austria over the next academic year

By Tess Eyrich |

Lectures by John Martin Fischer explore near-death experiences

Presentations by the leading philosopher seek to answer questions about immortality

By Tess Eyrich |

History professor emeritus receives Latino Spirit Award

The award to UCR’s Carlos Cortés comes from the California Latino Legislative Caucus

By Tess Eyrich |

Journalist Maria Hinojosa delivers speech, meets with students

She presented the 50th Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture with powerful messages.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Allison Hedge Coke receives Chinese poetry award

Hedge Coke was awarded China's First Jade Nurtured SiHui Female International Poetry Award and the title of Excellent Foreign Poet

By Hannah Croft |

UCR welcomed 22 authors and hundreds of guests at this year's Writers Week conference.

The 42nd-annual Writers Week conference, California’s longest-running free literary event, kicked off the evening of Feb. 4 with a full-house event featuring Margaret Atwood. Chancellor Kim Wilcox introduced the acclaimed author, known for popular works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and the "MaddAddam" trilogy, followed by a Q&A between Atwood and...

By Jessica Weber |

Research initiative receives 'Beacon of Democracy' award

The initiative, AAPI Data, was established in 2013 by UC Riverside political scientist Karthick Ramakrishnan

By Tess Eyrich |

Guerrero brings home 'Best Music Video' award

During the 43 rdAnnual American Indian Film Festival, Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production Assistant Professor Kimberly Guerrero brought home the Best Music Video award. The award was in recognition for the video created by The StyleHorse Collective, a production company made up of indigenous creatives co-founded by Guerrero, during...

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |

Clifford Trafzer honored with American Indian Lifetime Achievement Award

Clifford Trafzer, a distinguished professor in UCR’s history department, is the recipient of the Western History Association’s 2018 American Indian Lifetime Achievement Award

By Tess Eyrich |

CHASS Dean Chosen for Riverside Leadership Program

Milagros Peña, dean of UCR’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, or CHASS, has been selected as one of 24 civic leaders to take part in Leadership Riverside, a program developed by the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce to inspire the next generation of active leaders in the region. Rounding out the program’s 2019 class are...

By Samantha Stanfill |

11 UCR Students Awarded National Science Foundation Fellowship

Eleven University of California, Riverside students received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research fellowship, the preeminent award program recognizing NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students pursuing research-based graduate and doctoral degrees at accredited institutions in the United...

By Brittney Carolina |