UCR engineering professor maps California’s university innovation ecosystem through new NAI study
Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, co-authored the paper with Paul R. Sanberg, president of the National Academy of Inventors. The work grew out of Ozkan’s role as a 2025 NAI Invention Ambassador, a leadership position focused on collaboration, translational research, and inventor...
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AI-enabled drug discovery project earns $100,000 CUBRI-UCR award
A new collaborative research project led by UC Riverside bioengineering professor Jiayu Liao has received a $100,000 award from the City of Hope-UC Riverside Biomedical Research Initiative (CUBRI-UCR) to advance a promising approach for discovering next-generation therapies for cancer and other diseases.
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UCR students and alumni earn prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Four UC Riverside students and alumni have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, one of the nation’s most competitive honors for emerging researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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UCR SHPE Solar Boat Team earns five awards at statewide regatta
UCR earned five awards at this year’s regatta, including third place overall in the Cup Championship, which combines scores from races, technical evaluations, sustainability metrics, design categories, and team participation.
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Assistant Professor receives NSF CAREER Award for AI reliability research
Dr. Qian Zhang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside, studies the software layers where those failures occur. Her work recently earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, one of the agency’s highest honors for early-career faculty.
By Sara Salsgiver |
A Seat at the Table
A UCR's Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program has established a successful track record in helping educationally underserved students — such as those from first-generation Hispanic/Latino households — excel in math and science and pursue a degree in engineering and other STEM fields.
Reaching for the Stars
Ryan Reid, president of Boeing Satellite systems and alumnus, will serve as the inaugural Distinguished Visionary for the Bourns College of Engineering to share his experience and leadership with students and faculty.
Data-Driven, Future-Ready
UCR Engineering marks the five-year anniversary of an undergraduate degree program in data science it launched with the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences to draw women and other students who aren’t commonly represented in STEM.
Revved Up on Robots
Brandon Marcus's robotics and artificial intelligence research and recent co-authorship of a major paper accepted to the 2025 CASE conference mark a few of his successes as the second BCOE student to graduate with a bachelor's degree in robotics.
Fostering Future Faculty
Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the country found the support and guidance through a new FAME program geared to recruit and mentor future faculty mentors.