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Associate Professor Nick Weller of UCR's Department of Political Science and collaborators at University of Southern California received a grant from the National Science Foundation titled: Measuring and Improving Traffic Stops: An AI-Powered Approach to Analyzing Bodyworn Camera Footage. The...
UCR Political Science PhD Candidate Eunseong Oh Wins Prestigious John T. Williams Dissertation Prize
We are proud to share that Eunseong Oh, a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the 2025 John T. Williams Dissertation Prize by the Society for Political Methodology. This prestigious award recognizes...
We are thrilled to announce that Jieun Lee, a doctoral candidate, has been honored with the prestigious Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grant. You can view more information about the award HERE. This initiative supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research...
We are proud to celebrate the accomplishments of Debanhi Rojas Figueroa, a graduating senior from the Department of Political Science at UC Riverside, who has been featured in the University of California’s Class of 2025 spotlight: “Building California’s Brilliant Future”...
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Diogo Ferrari and Brianna A. Smith
Jeffery A. Jenkins and Nicholas G. Napolio
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Insights
May 22, 2025
Marching to the beat of his own drum
UCR graduate student Donald Zárate is a U.S. Army Reservist and a committed community volunteer.
April 28, 2025
Platform developed at UCR reinvents the webinar
Online webinar platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams have enabled public discourse at an unprecedented scale. But when hundreds of people join a meeting, the flow of feedback—often reduced to rapid-fire chat messages—becomes chaotic and overwhelming.
September 30, 2024
UCR experts demystified voter props in online forum
Once again California voters are facing a plethora of state initiatives to decide on issues ranging from increasing penalties for theft and drug offenses to borrowing money to build schools.
To help voters better understand the myriad of propositions on the Nov. 5 ballot, the UC Riverside Office of Alumni Engagement and School of Public Policy hosted on Oct. 1 an informative webinar to help voter navigate the complexities of the 2024 California ballot propositions.
September 18, 2024
Q&A: 10 states face abortion rights initiatives
Shaun Bowler, professor of political science, and Andy Crosby, an assistant professor of teaching in the School of Public Policy, weigh in on how the plethora of state abortion rights initiatives may affect the presidential election.