Highlander Farewells is a recurring feature spotlighting faculty and staff members who recently retired or are retiring soon. Learn more about the contributions of UCR colleagues with 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 list...
A multimedia concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding spotlights a famous poem by Allison Hedge Coke, distinguished professor of creative writing at UC Riverside. Hedge Coke’s “America, I Sing You Back,” published in 2011, is one of three related poems that inspired “I Hear America Singing,” a traveling stage production.
The first clue that Monica Carson and David Lo have arrived at San Diego Comic-Con isn’t the elaborate costumes. It’s the conversations they strike up with fellow fans. The couple — biomedical scientists in the UC Riverside School of Medicine — will stop to admire an independent artist’s work, duck into a panel discussion on banned books or science...
The Palm Desert Low Residency MFA program at UC Riverside has been selected as a partner of the 2026-27 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, an international talent development program led by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that supports non-professional screenwriters.
UC Riverside will host a French Paralympic team who will train at campus athletics facilities in advance of the 2028 Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. UCR signed a letter of intent with the French Disabled Federation at a signing ceremony June 23, agreeing to provide the French delegation with training and housing in the summers of 2027 and 2028. A...
UCR graduates 11 incarcerated students with bachelor's degrees during a ceremony held in the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco. It was the university's first graduation ceremony inside a prison.
A pair of recent, well-attended events organized by UCR prove that Inland Empire insect lovers are at least equal to those who fear the six-legged among us.
UC Riverside concluded its 72nd Commencement season on June 16, with UCR’s Class of 2026 walking at eight discipline- or degree-based ceremonies. About 6,016 graduates, 35,176 in-person guests, 57,500 online streamers, and about 375 event ambassadors participated in the ceremonies, which started on June 5. Highlanders belonging to specific groups...
A donation of advanced networking technology from Cisco, a US technology company, will help UC Riverside researchers, students, and entrepreneurs tackle some of Southern California's most pressing environmental challenges
UC Riverside is beginning to explore possible future uses of Bannockburn Village as it gets ready to close the aging student housing complex at the end of this month. Housing Services convened focus groups last month to hear campus partners’ suggestions on the future development of the site. As a follow-up to seek broader input, it has created an...
UC Riverside’s Lothian Residential Restaurant is closed over the summer for a remodeling project that will give it a fresh look and add more seating. The student dining hall, which serves up to 1,400 diners a day, typically closes during the summer with the larger Glasgow Residential Restaurant remaining open for the smaller summer quarter student...
Jeff Girod, an 18-year UC Riverside communications professional, has been named the associate vice chancellor and chief communications and marketing officer for the University. He will start in the role on July 13. For the past eight years, Girod has led communications for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, or CHASS. He was...
UC Riverside’s R’Garden is marking a new beginning with a regular funding source that will provide stability and diversified programming. Students voted overwhelmingly last month to approve a referendum in which they will pay $10 a quarter to support the campus garden starting this fall. The crucial vote came after a few years of uncertainty over...
UC Riverside ranked in the top 1.3% of universities worldwide in the 2026 Center for World University Rankings, released Monday, June 1. The campus ranked No. 274 out of 21,291. Nationally, UCR landed at No. 83 while for the U.S. and Canada it was No. 93. The rankings are published by the Center for World University Rankings, a consultancy based in...
The lawn outside UC Riverside’s Student Services Building has a new large tree, replacing one that collapsed in a windstorm eight months ago. Facilities Services planted the 21-foot-tall Italian stone pine at the same spot on Thursday, May 21. It replaced a 100-foot-tall Italian stone pine that came down due to strong winds and a failing root...
UC Riverside environmental engineers are testing a van imported from France with a hydrogen combustion engine as part of an international effort to advance decarbonization of the transportation industry and curb greenhouse gas emissions. The van is being tested at UCR’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology, or CE-CERT, through a...
More than 100 Highlanders circled the UC Riverside Track & Field Stadium Friday, May 15, as part of the annual UCR Walks event. Participants walked at their own pace with prizes including Bluetooth headphones and gift cards raffled off every half hour to those who completed at least 10 laps. All 100 participants also received a 2026 UCR Walks medal...
