UC Merced |

Two UC Merced professors named campus's first MacArthur Chairs

Internationally recognized scholars granted the opportunity to pursue new horizons in humanities research.

Southern California Public Radio |

Kids from around the world find community in poetry

A UC Irvine professor on how performing arts can boost the language skills of young English learners.

UC Riverside |

Scholar a finalist for prestigious Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

UC Riverside professor Fred Moten nominated for award that honors a poet in mid-career.

UC Riverside |

UC Riverside professor receives highest medievalist honor

Professor of medieval art history Conrad Rudolph named a Fellow of The Medieval Academy of America.

UCLA Newsroom |

First music school established in the UC system

The UC Board of Regents formally approves the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

UC Riverside |

Documenting the Now: archiving social media for generations to come

UC Riverside helps develop a Mellon-supported app to preserve social media activity during significant events.

UC Santa Cruz |

Film by UC Santa Cruz art professor nominated for Academy Award

UC Santa Cruz alumnus Steve Mirrione also receives Oscar nomination in film editing.

UC Berkeley |

Goodbye jobs, hello ‘gigs’: Nunberg’s Word of the Year

The word that's re-emerged with the decline of the traditional American job.

UC Riverside |

Music professor tapped for National Council on the Humanities

President Obama will nominate UC Riverside's Deborah Wong for the National Council on the Humanities.

Washington Post |

By day, he taught high school. Now he writes for Superman and the first Asian American superhero.

UC Berkeley alum Gene Luen Yang named new national ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress.

UCLA |

UCLA prof helps capture immigrants' accounts of their first days in America

First Days Project website enables newcomers to share heartfelt recollections of arriving in the United States.

UC Riverside |

One professor’s top holiday movies

UC Riverside media and cultural studies professor Derek Burrill offers his favorites. Warning: Not all these films are reindeer approved.