Theatre, Film, and Digital Production graduates Saul Guardado (2024), Mary Gutierrez (2025), and Gianna Cosenza (2025) hit the ground running following graduation last spring, launching a production company called Camphor Pictures, targeting smaller, independent filmmakers. Guardado directed Camphor Pictures’ first short film, “Bienvenido.” “It's fully in Spanish, and I wrote it in the beginning of...
By Jeremy Gutierrez, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing and Communications |
On Sunday, Mar. 1, UCR ARTS celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts with a community, family-oriented day held at the museum in downtown Riverside. The Gluck Fellows Program awards funds to graduate students to support their education through community outreach. Fellows go to schools throughout the Inland Empire and...
By Jeremy Gutierrez, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing and Communications |
Bella Merlin, Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production, has been working on her passion project, a one-woman show called “Tilly No-Body” since 2009. The show follows Tilly Wedekind, wife and muse of German playwright Frank Wedekind, and her emotional journey from youth to old age. “‘Tilly No-Body’ is a one-person show with five...
By By Jeremy Gutierrez, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing and Communications |
Patrick Allen ‘97 and Ayliz Allen ‘97, undergraduate students in business and business administration respectively, first met in a marketing class at UCR. As of now, they have been married for 14 years. “ We sat next to each other in discussion, and we became friends and started dating,” Patrick said. “We kept in touch and...
By By Jeremy Gutierrez, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing and Communications |
CHASS Teaching Award The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences invites nominations for the 2025-2026 CHASS Teaching Award. The award is made annually to recognize outstanding achievement in teaching by a faculty member of the College. Nominees must be Senate or Unit 18 instructional faculty (Academic Student Employees are not eligible) whose teaching is...
RIVERSIDE, CA — Dean Daryle Williams and the University of California, Riverside (UCR) College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) are proud to announce the launch of the Dean’s Research Impact Initiative. This strategic program is designed to catalyze high-impact scholarship and creative activity during the Winter and Spring 2026 terms, serving as a...
Colleagues, I take this opportunity to communicate the appointments, reappointments, and extensions of several CHASS department chairs and directors that took effect earlier this year. I also offer heartfelt thanks to our outgoing unit heads for their dedication to our academic mission, teaching, research, and service. The leadership appointments below have been reviewed and approved...
Dear CHASS Chairs, Directors, and Faculty Executive Committee Acting Chair: I begin with my sincere thanks to each of our graduate program leads for taking the time in the fall quarter to sit down with me, Associate Deans Lamar Prieto and Tomoff, and Dean Kos to discuss the PhD and MFA programs that advance our...
On Oct. 8, author Sandra Cisneros — best known for her young adult novella, “The House on Mango Street” — returned to UC Riverside for her first in-person appearance since 2012. Cisneros was also a featured author in the 2022 Writers Week festival. The event was open to the public, and copies of her books...
By By Jeremy Gutierrez, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing and Communications |
Dear Colleagues: I am pleased to announce the search for a new Associate Dean for the Social Sciences. The Associate Dean supports curricular, research, and service activities across the various social science degree-granting programs, research centers, and special initiatives in the College and throughout the University. The Associate Dean advises the Dean on various matters...
