UC Riverside concluded its 71st Commencement season on June 17, with UCR’s Class of 2025 walking at eight discipline- or degree-based ceremonies. Approximately 6,100 graduates, 35,000 in-person guests, 32,000 online streamers, and about 375 volunteer staff participated in the celebrations, which started on June 6. Highlanders belonging to specific...

John Templeton Foundation grant to UCR will support research by physicist Hai-Bo Yu

Barry Barish will receive the IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award in July

Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society

High-powered computers relocated to SOM Ed 1 will benefit research across campus

Umar Mohideen’s image from Casimir effect experiment will appear in Spanish version of a show on quantum mechanics

Ashley Pimentel and Ting Zhao encourage fellow students to pursue opportunities.

Greatness runs in the lab.

CMS collaborators analyze data from Large Hadron Collider collisions

A big honor for chemistry and biomedical sciences faculty

Guido Altarelli Award recognizes Miguel Arratia’s work on probing the structure of the proton

Daniel Petras has received the Mattauch-Herzog Award from the German Association for Mass Spectrometry

Professional society recognizes outstanding faculty and grad student work

UC Riverside has been named one of the world’s top universities for 17 subject areas in the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings, released Wednesday, March 12. In its rankings, global higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds, or QS, compared more than 18,300 university programs in more than 1,700 universities around the world in...

American Physical Society recognizes the department’s efforts to improve undergraduate physics education

For the first time, the UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy provided full financial support for two postdoctoral researchers and three graduate students to attend the Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics that was held last month in San Diego, California. The UCR contingent attended one day of the three-day...

Sue Wessler recognized for scientific excellence and collaborative spirit

Seven UCR students designed, built, and ran their own experiment

Physicist Andrew Joe has received a Doctoral New Investigator grant

Society honors Stephen Kane for work on planetary habitability, Venus, exoplanets, spirit of collaboration