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Uma Jayakumar

Framework offered for higher ed to defend racial equity

As the nation’s colleges and universities respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “race-neutral” admissions mandates and the Trump administration’s efforts to cut funding to campuses with DEI programs, a UC Riverside education professor urges institutions to respond to racial inequalities by working to improve their “racial climate health”—a concept she...

By David Danelski | May 8, 2025 | Social Science / Education

Partnership between UCR and City of Hope aims to increase diversity in cancer research

$13.7M grant from National Cancer Institute will support several projects on breast and pancreatic cancers

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 24, 2023 | Health
UCR medical students

School of Medicine ranked No. 5 for diversity

Recognition validates many signature diversity efforts of the medical school

By Iqbal Pittalwala | May 11, 2023 | University
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 26: Ryan Coogler attends the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever World Premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on October 26, 2022. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Disney)

Black stories, culture, and Hollywood

In this Q&A UCR experts discuss culture, history, and the importance of Black films.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | January 23, 2023 | Arts / Culture

New funding will help UCR diversify physician workforce in inland Southern California

The California Wellness Foundation has awarded the School of Medicine a $450,000 grant

By Iqbal Pittalwala | June 1, 2021 | Health

Diversifying the sciences

UC Riverside’s Khaleel Razak and Frances Sladek receive grants from the University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 2, 2020 | Science / Technology
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UCR offers media diverse voices on diverse topics

TOPICS CLIMATE CHANGE, AIR QUALITY, GREEN ENERGY, SUSTAINABILITY NATURAL DISASTERS HEALTH PHYSICS LGBT, GENDER AND SEXUALITY MIDDLE EAST AND MUSLIMS IMMIGRATION TERRORISM INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS/ INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS MEDIA AND CULTURE CLIMATE CHANGE, AIR QUALITY, GREEN ENERGY, SUSTAINABILITY Kawai Tam: Lecturer with security of employment, chemical and environmental engineering. Undergraduate education; mentoring...

By UCR News | February 13, 2019 | Science / Technology
women coding

New data science major promotes diversity in high-tech

Program will build new educational pathways in computing or technology for students, especially women, who otherwise would not study these subjects in college

By Holly Ober | June 28, 2018 | Science / Technology
Jose Aguilar

Hearing amplifies need for funding to support student growth

Assembly Select Committee on the California Master Plan for Higher Education deliberates how to best meet the needs of faculty and staff to support future scholars

By Brittney Carolina | May 23, 2018 | University

Engineering graduate student is Ford Foundation fellow

Vicente Robles aims to develop a new method to deliver therapeutic agents directly into living cells

By Holly Ober | May 4, 2018 | Science / Technology
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