UC Riverside’s natural landscape served as inspiration for second-year student Valerie Cheng’s photo illustration that won the 2026 R’Card photo contest on March 19. Her colorful entry, featuring orange trees and a blue sky, will be the background image on R’Cards distributed to students, staff, and faculty members for the 2026-2027 academic year...
The Smartphone Film Festival is UC Riverside’s annual commemoration of the art of cinema focusing on the fact that anyone can make movies–even on their smartphones. The February event was the festival’s 12th year running, and had its highest number of submissions yet: 18 films, all made by UCR students using phones and no camera equipment, all...
Julie Vasquez, who graduated from UC Riverside in 2024, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Bosnia and Herzegovina