It is time to honor some of the University's brightest minds at the 2025 Luminaries Outstanding Faculty Awards. This is the only campus-wide annual event dedicated to our faculty. Please join us at Stevie Eller Dance Theatre to celebrate our colleagues' milestone achievements and mingle with our wonderful community. The ceremony will begin at 3:30 p.m. and will be immediately followed by a reception from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Visit luminaries.arizona.edu for more information about this year's cohort of awardees, recognized for their excellence in research, teaching, service, and leadership.

Plática at The Cheech:

“Brown Body as a Site for Disruption”

Michelle Téllez and Mike Chávez engage in conversation on topics related to the Xican-a.o.x. Body exhibition. Dr. Chávez wrote the essay “Los de Abajo: Lowriders, Bodies, and Rasquachismo” that is included in the exhibition catalog. He is the co-executive director and founder of the Inland Empire Labor Institute and a professor of sociology at Riverside City College. Dr. Téllez is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in Community Studies, Sociology, Chicana/o Studies and Education who writes about identity, mothering, transnational community formation, cross-border labor organizing, gendered migration, autonomy and resistance along the U.S./Mexico border.

Wednesday, Oct. 18th, 2023
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Cheech Auditorium
3581 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA

Free and open to the public. Registration reccomeneded.  Details here.