Highlander Farewells is a recurring feature spotlighting faculty and staff members who recently retired or are retiring soon. Find out more about the contributions of UCR colleagues with about 25 years or more of service in the short profiles that follow. Retirees with fewer years or who did not provide profile information are listed below. The...

Highlanders enjoyed a performance by rapper Flo Rida and a host of other festivities as part of UC Riverside’s Homecoming 2024. Performing before a packed crowd on Saturday, Nov. 2, Flo Rida encouraged Highlanders to get “Low” and spread “Good Feelings” with an energetic set that included those and other signatures hits. Wearing a UCR jersey at one...

Scientists and musicians came together to talk about microscopic worms and perform chamber music at UC Riverside’s Culver Center of the Arts on Friday, Sept. 27. The “Earworm” event aimed to demonstrate the synergy between the two seemingly unconnected disciplines. Researcher Sophie Zaaijer, who served as emcee, described how scientists, like...

UC Riverside welcomed 74 new permanent faculty members for the 2024-2025 academic year who come from a variety of disciplines and research interests. The new faculty members offer expertise on a wide range of subjects from the economics of immigration to the history of California Indians. Their research covers a wide variety of topics including...

UC Riverside welcomed thousands of new and returning students as the campus kicked off the fall quarter. Students began moving in to campus housing on Sept. 19 with the first day of classes beginning Sept. 26. Campus departments and groups held a variety of fun and informative Welcome Week events to help them discover new resources and explore the...

Ten UC Riverside faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards to support research in areas ranging from early detection of diseases to human-robot interactions. The awards support early career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and advance their organization’s mission...

Highlander Farewells is a recurring feature spotlighting faculty and staff members who recently retired or are retiring soon. Find out more about the contributions of UCR colleagues with 25 years or more of service in the short profiles that follow. Retirees with less than 25 years or who did not provide profile information are listed below. The...

Highlanders began their commencement celebrations with a week of festivities including Senior Sendoff at UC Riverside’s Rivera Lawn on Thursday, May 21. More than 700 seniors attended the event, which included free food and swag, photobooths, celebratory stations, a graduation cap decoration station, and music from KUCR. Senior Sendoff was...

About 100 Riverside middle school students recently learned about the importance of sustainable food production through hands-on activities with UC Riverside scientists. Students from the Riverside STEM Academy visited the campus May 9 for the first Circular Economy and Sustainable Food Production Day, hosted by Georgios Vidalakis, a professor and...

UC Riverside Staff Assembly brought together staff members for events including crocheting, building stuffed bears, and a pet adoption fair as part of “Thank Goodness for Staff Week.” A series of in-person and virtual free events were held from Monday, April 22, to Friday, April 26. They included free coffee and donuts with crotchet outside...

UC Riverside welcomed incoming students and their families for Highlander Day on Saturday, April 13. The event brought more than 2,700 future UCR students and nearly 9,000 people to UCR. Highlander Day is designed for admitted students and their families. Several schools, colleges, and departments held open houses and/or had booths all over campus...

UC Riverside paid tribute to alumni, philanthropic, and humanitarian leaders at UCR Honors: A Gala Celebration on Saturday, April 6. More than 200 guests attended the first-of-its-kind event, held at the Student Recreation Center, which was transformed into a blue carpet, black-tie venue for an evening of music, drinks, dining, and tributes. In...

After a rainy winter, spring has arrived and plants are blooming at the UC Riverside Botanic Gardens. Visitors can enjoy sights like a tree peony flower, California poppies, and turtles perching on logs in a creek. The South Africa Garden is full of color with aloes and ice plants while across the trail blooming lilacs have a strong scent. The...

More than 200 UC Riverside alumni, students, parents, employees, and community members volunteered for community service projects throughout California and as far away as London and Hawaii. Highlander volunteers participated in 20 projects, completing 673 hours on Highlander Day of Service on March 16. The projects included picking up 65 bags of...

Foundry’s CIO has named UC Riverside among the winners of its 2024 CIO 100 Award. For more than 25 years, the CIO 100 Awards have recognized innovative organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of strategic and operational excellence in information technology. “The award-winning teams share a passion for excellence, a customer...

UC Riverside’s multi-factor authentication tool, Duo, will have a new look starting March 25. Information Technology Solutions, or ITS, is upgrading to the platform’s new Universal Prompt to enhance user security. What’s changed? New look and feel: When logging into secure UCR resources, the Duo multi-factor authentication window will look...

UC Riverside’s University Extension has won an award from a national educational association for the work by a task force to promote diversity and inclusion. University Extension was one of eight programs and eight individuals announced as winners of the UPCEA Association Awards on Feb. 2. UPCEA, an online and professional education association...

UC Riverside experienced an eventful 2023 with the openings of new facilities, large events like Homecoming, and exciting research by faculty members. Take a look at some noteworthy moments captured by Stan Lim, UCR photography manager.

Inland Southern California startups competed for grants and mentorship at the SoCal OASIS Pitch Finals, hosted by UC Riverside’s Office of Technology Partnerships on Dec. 6. More than 180 people attended and six startups competed for $100,000 in grants and expert mentorship from the UCR EPIC Small Business Development Center (EPIC SBDC) for product...

UC Riverside’s Homecoming 2023 drew large crowds of Highlanders on Saturday, Nov. 4, for festivities including a performance by R&B superstars TLC. Alumni and their families enjoyed fun activities such as a Ferris wheel, and a 360-degree photo booth. A dedicated Family Zone included games, face painting, caricatures, coloring sheets, and other kid...