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...

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

Walking through rows of citrus groves on a sunny April morning, about a dozen UC Riverside Dining Services employees picked fruit off trees and loaded it in crates into the bed of a truck. A little more than a month later at the Scoops Ice Cream shop at the HUB, Brian Alcantara, retail restaurant manager for HUB operations, ladled ice cream freshly...

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

High-powered computers relocated to SOM Ed 1 will benefit research across campus

Umar Mohideen’s image from Casimir effect experiment will appear in Spanish version of a show on quantum mechanics

Ashley Pimentel and Ting Zhao encourage fellow students to pursue opportunities.

Greatness runs in the lab.

A big honor for chemistry and biomedical sciences faculty

A new exhibit featuring fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago brings the work of UC Riverside researchers in the Australian Outback to the Inland Empire for the first time. “From California to Down Under: Fossils of the Ediacaran” opened March 15 at the Western Science Center in Hemet and will run until fall 2025. It features specimens and...

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

Professional society recognizes outstanding faculty and grad student work

UC Riverside has been named one of the world’s top universities for 17 subject areas in the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings, released Wednesday, March 12. In its rankings, global higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds, or QS, compared more than 18,300 university programs in more than 1,700 universities around the world in...

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

For the first time, the UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy provided full financial support for two postdoctoral researchers and three graduate students to attend the Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics that was held last month in San Diego, California. The UCR contingent attended one day of the three-day...

UC Riverside honored faculty members for their achievements at the 2025 Faculty Awards Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 6. About 170 people attended the dinner at the Mission Inn including faculty honorees and their family members, campus leaders, and deans, department chairs, and distinguished faculty. Faculty members were recognized for their promotions...

Sue Wessler recognized for scientific excellence and collaborative spirit

Seven UCR students designed, built, and ran their own experiment

Physicist Andrew Joe has received a Doctoral New Investigator grant