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CNAS New Faculty Reception - October 20, 2025

CNAS Welcomes New Faculty Members for the 2025 Academic Year

The College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) welcomed its newest faculty on October 20, hosting a full day of events designed to connect them with the CNAS community. The program began at noon with the CNAS New Faculty Orientation in HUB 269, continued with a campus tour led by the CNAS Science Ambassadors, and...

New CNAS Faculty Reception 2024

CNAS Celebrates New Faculty Members for the 2024 Academic Year

The UC Riverside College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) welcomed and celebrated 33 new faculty members for the 2024 academic year at the annual New Faculty Reception on October 29. Peter Atkinson, CNAS Interim Dean, welcomed the new faculty members and their families at the Alumni & Visitors Center for a special dinner, where...

CNAS Welcomes New Faculty to the 2023-2024

CNAS Welcomes New Faculty to the 2023 Academic Year

This fall, the College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside welcomes fifteen new faculty members to CNAS. This new cohort of faculty brings an infusion of energy, experiences, and expertise in the fields of biochemistry, biology, ecology, entomology, mathematics, microbiology and plant pathology, physics and astronomy, and statistics. We celebrate each new faculty...
CNAS Welcomes New Faculty 2022

CNAS Welcomes New Faculty to the 2022 Academic Year

This fall, the College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside welcomes seven new faculty members to CNAS. This new cohort of faculty brings an infusion of energy, experiences, and expertise in the fields of chemistry, mathematics, physics and astronomy, and statistics. We celebrate each new faculty member and look forward to the impact...
CNAS Welcomes New 202102022 Faculty

CNAS Welcomes New 2021-2022 Faculty

The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside is proud to welcome new faculty members to CNAS. Their expertise in sciences plays a major role in what the CNAS community can expect when they return to campus this fall and in the years ahead. Our newest faculty members join a growing roster of...
Welcome New CNAS Faculty

Welcome new CNAS faculty 2020

Join us in welcoming the newest faculty members to the College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences for the 2020-2021 academic year! Miguel Arratia, assistant professor of physics in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2016. He specializes in experimental nuclear physics. He seeks to understand...
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Welcome New CNAS Faculty

Welcome New CNAS Faculty 2019

A warm welcome to our new CNAS Faculty! Polly Campbell, assistant professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolution at Boston University. She is an evolutionary biologist whose areas of interest include the process of speciation, sex chromosome evolution, and the genetic and epigenetic basis of...
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Welcome New CNAS Faculty

A warm welcome to new 2018 CNAS faculty

Meet the newest faculty members in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences for 2018 Also see pictures from the 2018 New Faculty Reception. Barry Barrish Barry Barrish, distinguished professor of physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, earned his Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research effort...
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Welcome New CNAS Faculty

Meet the newest faculty members in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences for 2017

Also see pictures from the 2017 New Faculty Reception. Garret Anderson Garret Anderson is an assistant professor of neuroscience in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, followed by postdoctoral research at Stanford University in molecular neuroscience. His research interests are in investigating the molecular...
Welcome New CNAS Faculty

Welcome to new CNAS faculty 2016

Please view short biographies and portraits of our new faculty members and the new dean. Welcome! Hoori Ajami Hoori Ajami, assistant professor of groundwater hydrology in the Department of Environmental Sciences, earned her Ph.D. in hydrology at University of Arizona. Her research interests are in the areas of catchment hydrology, groundwater recharge, surface water-groundwater interactions...
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