
Expert available to comment on Mexico’s presidential election
UC Riverside’s Armando Navarro will travel to Mexico City in advance of the July 1 election to survey voters and visit polling places

Fujimoto family diaries now available online
BY MELANIE RAMIRO RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( library.ucr.edu) – On March 11, 1942, the life of one Riverside family was shattered when United States government officials took local farmer Toranosuke Fujimoto into federal custody. His son, George Fujimoto, 21, wrote in his diary that day about his father’s arrest: “Went to...

New poetry collection explores life’s questions, great and small
RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — How do you encapsulate several decades of your life? That was the question for Maurya Simon, professor emerita in the Department of Creative Writing and professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside, while putting together her newest book, “ The Wilderness...

A mother’s greatest nightmare: Susan Straight broaches school shootings
As of March 8, there have been 14 school shootings so far this year. Since the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., 756 copycat threats have been made targeting schools across the country. For author Susan Straight — and many others around the nation...

Stanislavski at UC Riverside: A place where actors, scholars meet
What does it take to bring together actors and scholars? For Bella Merlin, professor of acting and directing at the University of California, Riverside, it takes a practical acting laboratory. A place where ideas and facts will come together. That’s exactly what Merlin will offer April 6-8 when she brings...

Inspired by ‘Get Out,’ UCR professor launches course on Afrofuturism and horror
Class based on the Oscar-nominated film will see students map out their own versions of the “sunken place” in lieu of a final exam

LIVE: Ron Athey’s collective memoir is guest-curated by Professor Jennifer Doyle
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - After a performance, Jennifer Doyle wants the audience to walk away with intense emotions. And the live performance she is guest-curating at The Broad contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, “Gifts of the Spirit: Prophecy, Automatism and Discernment” is not the exception. “I want people to have...

Research suggests Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ produced rare shift in public opinion
Far from its intended effect, the ban generated public opposition to the policy, according to a study co-authored by UCR’s Loren Collingwood