UCR’s division of Research and Economic Development, or RED, has announced faculty awardees of medium-sized grants (up to $50,000 each) for 12 research projects through its SoCal OASIS™ initiative, which stands for Opportunities to Advance Sustainability, Innovation, and Social Inclusion. The grant program is a key part of RED's broader commitment...
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...
Two online graduate programs at UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering are once again among the 2025 U.S. News Best Online Programs. The online master’s in information technology program was ranked No. 17 nationwide while the online engineering graduate program was No. 28. Both represented improvements from the previous...
Two papers co-authored by UC Riverside professor Bryan Wong have been recognized recently by their respective publishers as leading scientific studies.
UC Riverside professor Cengiz Ozkan has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding academic inventors whose innovations have made a significant societal impact.
UC Riverside welcomed 74 new permanent faculty members for the 2024-2025 academic year who come from a variety of disciplines and research interests. The new faculty members offer expertise on a wide range of subjects from the economics of immigration to the history of California Indians. Their research covers a wide variety of topics including...
UC Riverside distinguished computer science professor Kadangode “K.K.” Ramakrishnan was recently honored with a lifetime achievement award for pioneering contributions that have enabled the growth Internet.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, or ASME, has elected professor Cengiz Ozkan as an ASME Fellow in recognition of his “exceptional achievements and contributions” to the engineering profession.
A UC Riverside research team has won $250,000 as a runner-up in NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge for developing a method to grow mushrooms in outer space.
Ten UC Riverside faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards to support research in areas ranging from early detection of diseases to human-robot interactions. The awards support early career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and advance their organization’s mission...
Ran Cheng, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has recently received a $250,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to explore the possibility of using an emerging class of materials known as magnetic topological insulators to build electronics with extremely low power consumption.
Ke Du, an assistant professor in UCR’s Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, received an Early Career Award at the Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, or EIPBN, conference in May
Giulia Palermo, a computational biophysicist and associate professor in UCR’s Department of Bioengineering, has received a 2024 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
UCR’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering graduate school was ranked 76th the nation by U.S. News & World Report, seven positions better than last year's ranking.
UCR partners with five universities in a new, federally funded research center based at UC Davis to advance technologies needed to reduce vehicle emissions and improve climate resiliency in transportation.
UC Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology, known as CE-CERT, has been recognized by Southern California’s air quality agency for three decades of research that reduces air pollution and improves air quality.
UCR electrical and computer engineering Mihri Ozkan will serve as a U.S. delegate and an expert presenter for a United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this summer.
Two online graduate programs at UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering are among the 2024 U.S. News Best Online Programs. The online master’s in information technology program was named No. 21 while the online engineering graduate program was ranked No. 30, moving up four places from last year. Among public universities...
