Professor Dana Simmons has been teaching at UCR for 12 years and has certainly made her mark. Simmons first began researching how modern minimum architecture relates to minimum measures of life. This resulted in her first book, “Vital Minimum: Need, Science and Politics in Modern France.” Throughout her time as a professor, she has devoted her time to studying...
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Nicholas V. DiPatrizio, Ph.D., has invested himself in groundbreaking research beginning with his undergraduate studies at Temple University up to having his own research lab at UC Riverside focusing on food reward, sensory processing and metabolism. Although his studies have taken psychological, analytical and biomedical approaches, the common thread between his years of dedicated...
Since 1997, UC Riverside Professor of Comparative Literature and French Michelle Bloom, Ph. D, has selflessly lent her lifelong experience travelling the world, particularly France, while ardently studying literature and cinema through a comparative lense. Being mindful of the cultural differences that can be oversimplified when not researched extensively enough, she has heedlessly taught her students while exemplifying in...
In July of 2016, UCR assistant professor Cecilia Cheung, Ph. D, was awarded the American Psychological Association’s 2016 Early Career Research Grant in Developmental Psychology to assist the funding of her ongoing research project titled, “Where is the Pygmalion? The Role of Parents’ Expectation in Children’s Learning,” which is expected to be completed in the summer of 2017. This...
UC Riverside Musicology Professor Walter A. Clark is making international headlines after being conferred knighthood from Spain in June of 2016. Though, prior to earning his title as knight commander, Clark had already gained admirable recognition from both students and staff as a dedicated professor at UCR for 13 years in which he has taught a wide range of...