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...

UC Riverside professor Richard Carpiano will co-chair an international commission convened by the medical journal The Lancet to make communities worldwide more resilient to global health threats in the face of pandemics, climate change, and other challenges. “The idea is to go upstream to address fundamental societal and ecological issues—the...

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...

UCR public policy and sociology professor Sharon Oselin has received a Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship Award, which provides her with $16,000 toward her study of the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated people when they seek employment.

UCR's Inland Center for Sustainable Development, established in 2003, has been re-launched under a new name: the Center for Community Solutions.

UCR's School of Public Policy graduate programs achieve the rank of 76th in the nation, an improvement over its ranking of 102 in 2022.

Researchers rank in top 1% worldwide

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...

The explosive growth of hundreds of GIS applications in industry and government has put UCR's six-year-old Center for Geospatial Science in a growth mode.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, has awarded $17.5 million to a coalition led by researchers at UC San Diego to develop innovative tools and networks to respond rapidly to emerging disease outbreaks. Richard Carpiano, a professor and public health researcher in UC Riverside’s School of Public Policy, is among the team of...

Discussion topics included impact of the disease as well as health misinformation

About 350 Inland Empire high school students participated in the SoCal Youth Futures Summit at the University of California, Riverside, where they envisioned what they wanted for their futures and outlined steps to achieve their visions. The event on Feb. 10 featured townhall type talks by elected officials, including California Assembly members...

Less than a year ago, Mark Long, then a University of Washington associate dean and professor, served on a committee formed to evaluate undergraduate studies at UCR’s School of Public Policy. The school more than just made the grade. It became Long’s destiny. He was so impressed that he successfully applied to be the school’s second dean, taking...

For fall quarter 2022, UC Riverside welcomed 34 new permanent faculty members from a variety of disciplines. Learn more about the new faculty below: College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences Sahin Acikgoz, an assistant professor of religious studies, is a member of the executive committee of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program. They...

UC Riverside Graduate Division and Center for Open Science partner to evaluate research ethics training intervention

The University of California Cooperative Extension has provided the state’s farmers and ranchers with agricultural know-how for over a century — but how well does it work?

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