The Barn celebrated its return to live music with a packed house and upbeat performances by two Southern California bands on Thursday. Chola Orange, a funk-electro band, and Kiki Diago, an indie, funk and hip-hop influenced act, played the Barn’s outdoor stage as part of a St. Patrick’s Day Happy Hour event that drew a large crowd. It was the first...
A new program providing UC Riverside staff members with free groceries has become a dependable source for employees looking for a little extra help. The Staff Pantry, a partnership between UCR Staff Assembly and UCR’s Basic Needs department, began with a fall launch and two pop-up events. Since January, they’ve been held every other week outside...
A mural project supported by UC Riverside is providing a burst of color and promoting a spirit of resiliency in downtown Riverside. The campus is one of the co-sponsors of the Riverside Resiliency Mural. Mariam Lam, vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion, served as a member of Leadership Riverside, the group that commissioned the...
Live music is returning to the Barn. For decades, the UC Riverside venue has been a thriving center of the region’s music scene, hosting acts from Van Morrison to No Doubt to Rage Against the Machine. That tradition will continue at the new outdoor stage at the expanded and renovated facility, which is hosting its first music performance in seven...
A national organization dedicated to racial justice has named an award for UC Riverside education professor Tara J. Yosso. Color of Change, an online nonprofit, cited the power of Yosso’s research-based counter narratives, which shed critical historical light on the educational experiences of students of color. Color of Change held its inaugural...
The UC Riverside Staff Conference returns this month, offering staff members opportunities for professional development and networking. The two-day virtual event, which takes place March 22 and 23, is sponsored by UCR Staff Assembly, Leaders of Excellence and Distinction, or LEAD, and Human Resources Employees and Organizational Development. It’s...
Two UC Riverside projects were recognized in the city of Riverside’s annual beautification awards in February. The awards were announced Feb. 24 during the State of the City address by Riverside Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson. Plant Research 1, a high-tech plant research space that was completed last year, won first place for Sustainable Design and...
UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox is this year’s recipient of the Chief Executive Leadership Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, District VII. The recognition honors outstanding efforts to promote education. Wilcox was presented with the award Tuesday, March 1 at the CASE District VII conference in San...
R’Pantry is continuing its mission of supporting students by providing basic food and hygiene products from a new permanent location on campus. The program moved to HUB 346 in February and will stay there for the long-term. This will provide stability for the pantry, which has been housed at a few different locations since it began six years ago...
When he went into law enforcement, UC Riverside interim Police Chief Anthony Frisbee expected to spend his career working at a city police agency. That changed when he joined the UC Irvine police department 17 years ago. “I fell in love with campus policing,” he said. Frisbee, who was sworn in as UCR’s interim chief on Feb. 10, said working in a...
UC Riverside marked the start of a new era in campus health and wellness Friday, Feb. 18, celebrating the groundbreaking for a new Student Health and Counseling Center. The 39,450-square-foot building will house Student Health Services, The Well, and Counseling and Psychological Services in one space, bringing together medical, mental health, and...
UC Riverside’s electrical system is getting an upgrade. An electrical infrastructure project underway for over a year will provide the campus with more reliability, capacity, and safety, said Drew Hecht, director of project management for the Office of Planning, Development, and Construction. “This is a huge step forward for the campus – reducing...
UC Riverside has joined two national research consortiums that bring together leading institutions of higher education, scholarly professional associations, and learned societies in the areas of humanities and social sciences. The campus became a member of the Social Science Research Council’s College and University Fund for the Social Sciences in...
For the second year in a row, UC Riverside has been named among the “Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs.” UCR’s Student Affairs Organization was one of only 15 selected for the annual report, which will be published in the March 3 edition of “Diverse: Issues in Higher Education” magazine. The institutions were not ranked in any order...
The applied behavior analysis program at UC Riverside’s School of Education was ranked No. 9 in California by an online resource for those pursuing a career in the profession. The Applied Behavior Analysis Programs Guide considered student-to-faculty ratios, tuition, and Board Certified Behavior Analysis exam pass rates in determining the best...
UC Riverside offered more programs promoting sustainability while seeing a major decrease in greenhouse gas emissions last year, according to the 2021 Sustainability Annual Report. The report, released in January, outlined several steps the campus has taken to reduce its carbon footprint ranging from new programs to reduced gas and electric use. In...
UC Riverside broke another record for Giving Tuesday, raising $388,273 during the Nov. 30, 2021 event. The fundraising record continues an upward trajectory in dollars raised since the campus began participating in the International Day of Giving. The 2020 total was $315,330 while $254,706 was raised in 2019. During the 24-hour fundraiser, 1,921...
John Jennings, a professor of media and cultural studies at UC Riverside, has won a 2021 Hugo Award for the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s science fiction novel “Parable of the Sower.” Drawn by Jennings and scripted by his longtime collaborator Damian Duffy, the adaptation won in the best graphic story category in the December awards...
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will deliver the John A. and Betty C. Moore Science as a Way of Knowing public lecture at UC Riverside on Feb. 3. Her talk, which will be a live webinar at 4 p.m., is also part of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series at UCR. Titled “A CRISPR View of the Genome and...
A UC Riverside walking path between the Barn and Rivera Library will be closed for the early part of 2022 due to a walkway replacement and infrastructure tunnel repair project. Pedestrians who regularly use the 350-foot section of the Eucalyptus Walk to connect to Rivera, Watkins Hall, and Olmstead Theatre are advised to use an alternative route...
