Trees and plants are sprouting in the center of the UC Riverside campus as the new Native American Garden nears completion. A landscape contractor began planting trees, bushes, and other vegetation this spring in a 20,000-square-foot area in the upper mall outside the Highlander Union Building, or HUB, next to Pierce Hall. The garden is intended to...
When Jasmine Veliz’s workday at UC Riverside ends on a Tuesday afternoon, she’s just getting started. An administrative assistant with University Extension, Veliz volunteers once a week at Riverside’s Raincross Boxing Academy, tutoring and mentoring local youth. She’s been a tutor with the organization for two years, starting when she was a UCR...
Jorge Leal, an assistant professor of history, has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Leal is one of 20 new fellows for the 2023-24 academic year announced July 13. The fellowship, funded by the Mellon Foundation and administered by the institute, seeks to increase the presence of...
The UC Riverside Botanic Gardens has seen an outpouring of support following break-ins that resulted in the loss of thousands of dollars in equipment. Supporters have asked how they can donate money and equipment, and volunteer to help, after Botanic Gardens Director Jodie Holt posted on social media about burglaries that occurred Friday evening...
UC Riverside was honored for excellence in health and safety for a fourth consecutive year by the UC Office the President. UCR Environmental Health & Safety is the first to receive the prestigious UCOP Presidential Award for Campus Excellence in Health in Safety four years in a row. The award recognizes campus health and safety programs with the...
UC Riverside has been named one of the world’s top universities in the 2024 edition of the QS World University Rankings released June 27. The campus placed No. 69 in the United States in the 20th edition of the rankings, published by higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds and posted at TopUniversities.com. The list features 1,500...
UC Riverside has received two national awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, for its marketing and communications work. University Relations won two bronze CASE Circle of Excellence Awards from the nonprofit association dedicated to educational advancement in alumni relations, communications, development...
Johnny Cruz, UC Riverside associate vice chancellor and chief communications and marketing officer, completed the Leadership Riverside program in June. Leadership Riverside is a 10-month program by the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce in which representatives from local businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, school...
UC Riverside is rolling out the final phase of the Impact23 program, a multiyear effort replacing outdated financial systems with modern, more flexible cloud-based technology. Last year, the campus kicked off the first phase of the Impact23 updates with the deployment of the Concur Travel and Expense System, which provided a new system for...
Over the last few months, UC Riverside’s Dining Services reopened Emerbee’s café, held its first paid concert at the Barn, and continued to expand dining options at the Barn. The spring quarter developments are a sign of how the department is getting back to full operations after a difficult couple of years, said Marcus Van Vleet, executive...
A new UC Riverside Library exhibition explores the history of Indigenous languages with manuscripts, books, newspapers, and other materials that document the diversity of Native American languages and experiences. It’s the second in a yearlong series called “The Power of Language: From Manuscript to Print” that shows the range of handwritten and...
UC Riverside has been designated as a bee-friendly campus and become an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, joining other institutions in improving the landscape for pollinators. An initiative of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Bee Campus USA and the associated Bee City USA program provide a framework for communities to work...
UC Riverside has released its strategic plan outlining its priorities for the next decade with the launch of the UCR 2030 website. The new plan concludes a process that began in 2018 as the campus reached the end of its previous 10-year plan, “UCR 2020: The Path to Preeminence” and began looking to the next decade. In an introductory video on the...
UC Riverside will see a major increase in construction activity in the coming months with several significant projects nearing completion or beginning soon. Those include a new School of Business building, which held its groundbreaking on April 27, and completion of a new School of Medicine building that will open this fall. Preliminary plans are...
UC Riverside’s new parking structure has won multiple awards from an international parking and transportation organization. Big Springs Parking Structure 2, which opened in fall 2021 on the east end of campus, received the Award of Excellence for Sustainable Design from the International Parking & Mobility Institute, a world-wide association of...
UC Riverside and the Riverside Unified School District expect to release an environment impact report for a proposed STEM Education Center this summer. In advance of the environmental document, UCR has created a Frequently Asked Questions page with information on the proposed project. The FAQ includes details on its anticipated timing, funding, and...
UC Riverside creative writing professor Laila Lalami has been selected for Harvard University’s prestigious Radcliffe Institute fellowship for the 2023-24 academic year. An acclaimed novelist, Lalami has been named a Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellow. She will spend the academic year researching and working on her new novel, “The Dream Hotel...
UC Riverside ranked No. 27 out of 6,000 schools in a list celebrating top colleges delivering outstanding experiential learning opportunities to students. Forage, an educational technology startup that provides a job simulation platform, released its Experiential Learning Awards on April 27. The award recognizes the top 50 four-year institutions in...
Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida recounted stories from his 44-year career in journalism while illuminating the behind-the-scenes work of journalists as part of the 54th Annual Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture. Merida spoke to students, staff, faculty, and community members Tuesday, May 9 at the University Theater in the first in-person...
At the top floor of UC Riverside’s new Plant Research 1 building, geneticist Julia Bailey-Serres is testing how to grow rice to withstand drought and flooding conditions in countries like India. In the laboratory next to her, researcher Bao-Lam Huynh is growing new varieties of cowpea plants that will be sent to Africa. Their work takes advantage...
