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.
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.
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...
Giulia Palermo, a computational biophysicist and associate professor in UCR’s Department of Bioengineering, has received a 2024 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
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
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...
UCR electrical and computer engineering team wins $300,000 prize from the U.S. Department of Energy for developing a data-driven planning platform for the nation’s largest electrical utility.
The perspective of UCR electrical and computer engineering professor Mihri Ozkan about using electrochemical technology to fight climate change was featured in an online Voices segment of CHEM, a scientific journal focusing on chemistry and interconnected fields.
Even before Frank Vahid became an educator, improving how students learn had long been on his mind. A professor of computer science and engineering at UC Riverside for almost 30 years, Vahid introduced new techniques to merge technology and learning in his classrooms. Vahid will now take what’s he’s learned to a national platform as deputy director...
UCR bioengineering professor Bahman Anvari, whose innovations have improved treatments for debilitating skin disorders, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, or NAI.
UC Riverside welcomed 52 new permanent faculty members for the 2023-2024 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 American politics to robot artificial intelligence to plant biochemistry. They include researchers from several top...
A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow UCR to develop better software architecture for robotics and other autonomous systems.
Eight UC Riverside faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards to support research in areas ranging from sustainability to mental health outcomes of young Latinas. The awards support early career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and advance their organization’s...
