Social Science / Education

Will kids’ religious training save – or doom – the world?

Children's Views of Environment, Politics Are Sculpted by Religion; UC Riverside Researcher's Worldwide Network Will Study the Impacts

By J.D. Warren | June 25, 2018 | Social Science / Education

Meet the educator building bridges between teachers of color

A UCR professor’s annual institute seeks to turn isolation — a fact of life for teachers of color across the country — into action

By Tess Eyrich | June 12, 2018 | Social Science / Education

Louie Rodríguez named GSOE’s newest endowed chair

Rodríguez is UCR’s Bank of America Chair in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Practice

By Tess Eyrich | June 8, 2018 | Social Science / Education

Book co-authored by GSOE dean tackles need to improve math education

If you think you're not a "math person," you might want to consider why

By Tess Eyrich | June 7, 2018 | Social Science / Education

Anthropologist plots new use for motion-capture technology

UCR bioarchaeologist Sara Becker plans to use the cutting-edge technique to document traditional labors of indigenous Andean people

By Tess Eyrich | May 30, 2018 | Social Science / Education

UCR to host California attorney general debate

Primary candidates Xavier Becerra, Steven Bailey, Eric Early, and Dave Jones will convene at UCR's Culver Center on May 15

By Tess Eyrich | May 10, 2018 | Social Science / Education

How an order of queer nuns puts a new face on activism

A book from UC Riverside professor Melissa Wilcox is the first comprehensive history of the global Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

By Tess Eyrich | April 27, 2018 | Social Science / Education

Report offers snapshot of Inland Empire’s immigrant population

UCR-led project looks closely at the nearly 1 million immigrants who call Riverside and San Bernardino counties home

By Tess Eyrich | April 20, 2018 | Social Science / Education, Business

Creative writing faculty and alumni to appear at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu ) — The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is right around the corner and a number of faculty and alumni from UCR’s Department of Creative Writing and the UCR Palm Desert Center’s Low-Residency MFA program will be participating in a host of conversations and readings. The largest of its kind in the United States —...

By Jessica Weber | April 18, 2018 | Arts / Culture, Social Science / Education

What are the costs of a shrinking local media landscape?

David Lesher, editor and CEO of CALmatters, will visit UCR for a conversation about the challenges of maintaining government transparency

By Tess Eyrich | April 17, 2018 | Social Science / Education

Exhibit reveals hidden histories behind California's citrus industry

A new exhibit at Riverside's California Citrus State Historic Park spotlights the overlooked architects of the region's citrus boom

By Tess Eyrich | April 13, 2018 | Social Science / Education

Study sheds new light on how bilinguals process language

Research led by a psychologist at the University of California, Riverside, shows that bilinguals regulate, or suppress, their native language when reading in a second language. Many in media and in science often assume that reading or speaking in a second language — one that has been learned later in life than the native or first language — is...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | April 9, 2018 | Social Science / Education