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Amir Zaki

Art Professor Amir Zaki leaves a creative mark in China, and on campus

You may have already seen Professor Amir Zaki on campus. On Tuesdays, you can find Zaki teaching his weekly free tai chi class to UCR students, faculty and staff, beneath the shaded trees between Hinderaker and INTS buildings. On Thursdays, he also teaches a free yoga class in the INTS round room. From yoga and...
By Lilian Tran, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |
Sang-Hee Lee

Lee explores human evolution in “Close Encounters With Humankind”

Before becoming CHASS Associate Dean of Social Sciences and a professor of anthropology, Sang-Hee Lee was on the path to becoming a classical pianist. That is, until she was hit by a creative slump which felt like an eternity. “For me, I felt like my life was ruined because I was not going to be...
By Lilian Tran, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |
John Jennings

In Conversation: John Jennings

John Jennings is an illustrator and professor in UCR’s Media and Cultural Studies department. Jennings won an Eisner Award for best medium adaptation for another medium for Octavia E. Butler’s classic "Kindred" at the San Diego Comic-con in collaboration with Damian Duffy. The Eisner Award is considered the equivalent of an Academy Award for comics...
By Lilian Tran, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |