<div dir="ltr"><div><img src="cid:ii_mcwf09c81" alt="Senate Header.png" width="562" height="68"><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">July 9, 2025</span></p>

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Academic Senate Members</span></p>

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Barish, Chair  </span></p>

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Riverside Division </span></p>

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2024-2025 Academic Senate Awardees</span></p>

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congratulating the recipients of the Distinguished Campus Service,
Distinguished Teaching, Faculty Research Lecturer, Doctoral Dissertation
Advisor/Mentoring Awards and the Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in
Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement.</span></p>

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the Spring Meeting of the Riverside Division on May 20, 2025.</span></p>

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accomplishments, please see the links below:</span></p></div><div><br></div><br>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Distinguished
Campus Service Award:</span></i></b></p>

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& Astronomy<b></b></span></i></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Distinguished
Teaching Award:</span></i></b></p>

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Film & Digital Production</span></i></p>

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Research Lecturer:</span></i></b></p>

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Planetary Sciences<b></b></span></i></p>

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Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award:</span></i></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Evangelos Papalexakis,
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jingsong
Zhang, Professor of Chemistry<span style="background:yellow"></span></span></i></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Chancellor’s
Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">:</span></i></p>

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Engineering</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a href="https://ucr-senate-public.s3.amazonaws.com/awards/CAEUR/recipients/24-25-s-h-write-up-miguel-arratia-faculty-682e48b404cdc-.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Miguel Arratia</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> , </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Assistant Professor of Physics &
Astronomy<b></b></span></i></p>

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Astronomy</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Shane Levin, Physics &
Astronomy</span></i></p></div>