Tag: News in brief

UCR religious studies professor Michael Alexander has been named the first Maimonides Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at UCR. The chair will support seminars,...

Distinguished UCR genetics professor Susan Wessler was appointed as the first College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) Neil A. and Rochelle A. Campbell...

UC Regents appoint new chair, re-elect vice chair The UC Board of Regents appointed longtime UC regent Monica Lozano as new chair, and re-elected Fred...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an accused suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, was convicted and sentenced to death by a federal jury on May...

UCR has received the American Heart Association’s (AHA) highest honor in being recognized as a “Platinum Fit-Friendly Worksite.” Vice Chancellor of Business and Administrative...

On Tuesday, May 5, UC President Janet Napolitano met with UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox and community college representatives in San Bernardino and Riverside County...

Researchers from UCR and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem were awarded a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a two-year...

A second physical planning workshop was held on April 27 to discuss four scenarios, with each serving as a tool for understanding potential areas...

UC Riverside creative writing professor Laila Lalami was recently named a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in fiction — an award given to...

UCR English professor Adriana Craciun has been awarded the Fulbright Scholar Award for the 2015-2016 school year. The award will consist of a one-year...