[Senate] Division Action Report - May 19, 2026

[Senate Senate]

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To:      Members, Academic Senate

Riverside Division



From:  Kenneth Barish, Chair of the Academic Senate

            Riverside Division



            Feng Xu, Secretary-Parliamentarian of the Academic Senate

            Riverside Division



Date:   May 22, 2026



*Re:      Spring 2026 Academic Senate Division Action Report*



At the May 19, 2026 Meeting of the Riverside Division of the Academic
Senate, the following actions were taken:



*Approval of the Minutes from the February 24, 2026 Division Meeting*

This item can be found on page 5
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of this Division Meeting agenda.



*Recognition of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Research and Creative Achievement Faculty recipients:*

Dr. Karine Le Roch, Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology

Dr. Seema Tiwari-Woodruff, Biomedical Sciences

*This item can be found on pages **8*
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& 9
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of this Division Meeting agenda.*



*Recognition of 2025-2026 Distinguished Campus Service Award recipients.*

Dr. Reza Abbaschian, Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Kimberly Hammond, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

*This item can be found on pages **205*
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& **206*
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of this Division Meeting agenda[MCJ1]
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*Recognition of the 2025-2026 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients.*

Dr. Chikako Takeshita, Society, Environment, and Health Equity

Dr. Rachel Wu, Psychology

*This item can be found on pages **207*
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& **209*
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of this Division Meeting agenda.*



*Recognition of the 2025-2026 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/ Mentoring
Award recipients.*

Dr. Bahram Mobasher, Physics & Astronomy

Dr. Jason Weems, History of Art

*This item can be found on pages **211*
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& **212*
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of this Division Meeting agenda.*



*Recognition of the 2026- 2027 Faculty Research Lecturer Award recipient.*

Dr. Bruce Link, Public Policy & Sociology

*This item can be found on page **213*
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of this Division Meeting agenda.*





*Approval of the Changes to the Committee on Committees Bylaw 8.8-8.87:
Lived Name Policy, Service Permissions, & Name Correction.*

*This item can be found on page **215*
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of this Division Meeting agenda. These changes can also be viewed in the
Academic Senate Manual under Riverside Division Bylaw 8.8.*



*Approval of Changes to the Charge of the Committee on Preparatory
Education (Bylaw 8.24.2.1).*

*This item can be found on page **229*
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of this Division Meeting agenda. These changes can also be viewed in the
Academic Senate Manual under Riverside Division Bylaw 8.24.*



*Approval of the Combined Data Science B.S. + Statistics M.S. Program.*

*This item can be found on page **235*
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of this Division Meeting agenda.*



*Approval of the Department Name Change from the Department of Psychology
to the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.*

*This item can be found on page **296*
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of this Division Meeting agenda.*



*Approval of the Changes to the School of Medicine Bylaw 5.2 (Dean Title).*

*This item can be found on page **310*
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of this Division Meeting agenda. These changes can also be viewed in the
Academic Senate Manual under School of Medicine Bylaw 5.2.*
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