UC Riverside graduate students will present companion research
projects from the Inland Empire on June 5 When the traveling
museum exhibit “RACE: Are We So Different?” opens at Riverside
Metropolitan Museum on Thursday, June 3, Yolanda Moses will be
one of the first to welcome the award-winning project to the
community where her career as an anthropologist began. Moses, a
professor of anthropology and associate vice chancellor for
diversity, excellence and equity at the University of
California, Riverside, was president of the American
Anthropological Association from 1995 to 1997 when development
of the RACE project began. She chaired the 27-member,
interdisciplinary, national advisory committee and remains a co-
curator and co-principal investigator of the overall project,
which includes three traveling exhibits, an award-winning Web
site and downloadable materials for teachers, parents and the
general public. “Most people (non-academics) think biological
race is real,” Moses said. “We’re saying it’s not. Hu