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Psychology department prepares patients for MRI's tight conditions
The Department of Psychology has a new and innovative way of preparing patients for scans inside a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, a narrow, tube-like structure that requires patients to lay completely still for several minutes. Psychology Professors Kalina Michalska and Aaron Seitz, along with four engineering students, Sebastian Shah, Sam Muku, Mena Mishreky, and...
By Chris Fleming, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |
'She's truly the colleague we all hope for'
Dana Simmons has devoted her life to teaching. She is an associate professor in the department of history and has been teaching at UC Riverside for 13 years. “With very little, if any, compensation, Dana has been tireless in her efforts to advance the careers of women faculty,” said Goldberry Long, UCR professor of creative...
By Lilian Tran, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |
New CHASS collaboration will expand student resources for film making
The department of Media and Cultural Studies (MCS) has partnered with the Theatre, Film and Digital Production (TFDP) department to create a multi-use space for undergraduate and graduate students. Located in INTS 2117, the room will double as both a laboratory and classroom, providing computers, editing software and other equipment for students while simultaneously allowing...
By Hannah Croft, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing and Communications |
Anthropology Ph.D. student studies typhoon, aftermath it left behind
Shelley Guyton is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in UC Riverside’s Anthropology department, with a focus on cultural anthropology and Philippines culture. She expects to complete her dissertation and receive her doctorate by 2020. In 2017, Guyton traveled to the Philippines to research how typhoons affect Pacific Island countries, how the recovery can take years, and...
By Patrick Anthony, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |
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 |
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 |
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 |