A widely used campus walkway has reopened to pedestrians as UC Riverside’s new instructional building project draws closer to completion. The sidewalk at the north side of campus, running along the Amy Harrison Athletic Field and UCR Soccer Stadium, had been closed since mid-December as part of construction for the Undergraduate Teaching and...
An inaugural sustainability literacy assessment of UCR students found that seniors scored significantly higher than freshmen, offering evidence that UCR students are learning key concepts related to environmental, social, and economic sustainability during their time at the university.
UC Riverside’s east campus entrance is sporting some new colors. Facilities Services’ landscape team planted new flowers at the beginning of the winter quarter near the monument sign at the corner of Big Springs Road and Valencia Drive. Landscapers added yellow Iceland poppies and blue pansies to celebrate UCR colorsand add a cheerful touch to the...
UC Riverside celebrated the inauguration of Chancellor S. Jack Hu with a look to the future, congratulatory speeches, and festive music and dance performances. Hu was formally sworn in as UCR’s 10th chancellor at the Thursday, Feb. 5 investiture ceremony where he outlined his vision for UCR to become “the nation’s model for an inclusive, innovation...
Kald Alhomse, 20, a second-year biology student who is blind, has learned to navigate UC Riverside’s campus on his own, using a white cane to guide his way. Just as important as getting to his classes, Alhomse relies on accessibility technology to follow his lectures and complete his coursework. In his backpack, he carries a tablet with a Braille...
UC Riverside will welcome Tsu-Jae King Liu, president of the National Academy of Engineering, for a public lecture set for Friday, Feb. 6. Liu’s talk is the inaugural event in the Provost’s Lecture Series, an annual program hosting prominent scholars in the fall, winter, and spring quarters. “We are honored to host Dr. Liu as our first speaker for...
UC Riverside will inaugurate Chancellor S. Jack Hu and the campus is invited to join the celebrations. Hu will be formally inaugurated at a Feb. 5 ceremony that will include University of California leaders and campus faculty, staff, and student representatives. He began his tenure as UCR’s 10th chancellor on July 15. A full afternoon of activities...
Two online graduate programs at UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering are once again among the 2026 U.S. News Best Online Programs. The online master’s in information technology program was ranked No. 12 nationwide in the engineering category while the online master’s in engineering program was No. 27. Both represented...
In a dark-colored room with blackened window shades, a team of digital archivists is unearthing hidden treasures in old documents, photographs, and other historical media. Those pieces of history can now be shared with scholars and researchers all over the world, thanks to a new digitization lab at UC Riverside’s Tomás Rivera Library. The new lab...
UCR's School of Public Policy has received a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund a four-year initiative aimed at improving civic engagement and public policy discourse with a focus on science-based policies.
Six months after breaking ground, UC Riverside’s SoCal OASIS Park™ has one its most notable design elements in place. Construction crews completed installation in December of the wood frame and paneling in the front portion of the building. The approximately 39,000-square-foot building will feature labs, maker spaces, and collaborative work areas...
The UC Riverside Library will once again host notable authors and scholars of speculative fiction with the 2026 Virtual Eaton Symposium on Jan. 8. The daylong event will include speculative fiction writer Ken Liu as the keynote speaker. Liu recently published the techno thriller “All That We See or Seem” and is a winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and...
2025 was a year of major changes at UC Riverside with the campus bidding farewell to longtime Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox and welcoming new Chancellor S. Jack Hu. Stan Lim, UCR photography manager, captured those big moments as well as the small intimate ones throughout the year — from a softball player stepping up to bat to students taking a break...
Zeus, the German Shepherd, found Perla Achi at the Riverside County Animal Shelter on October 2, 2018. At the time, he was a seven-month-old pup and she was a 22-year-old biology undergrad at UC Riverside. Achi was rescued by Zeus after losing her first German Shepherd, King, to cancer earlier that year — making for a tough start to her first year...
Mihoko Hosoi started her career in the hotel and airline industries in Japan, where she developed her ability to make people feel heard and welcomed. It’s an approach that she’s brought with her to library management, a field in which she’s worked for over two decades leading to her joining UC Riverside as university librarian in October. “It...
As the 2025 American Honey Princess and a master’s student in entomology at UC Riverside, Emilia Burnham has found a unique way to connect with schoolchildren and inspire future scientists.
Susan Zieger, a UC Riverside professor of English, didn’t have to look far from campus to see the impacts of the logistics industry. For her new book, “Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space,” Zieger interviewed about 30 UCR students who worked in area warehouses to help pay their way through school. The book was published in...
