A new exhibit featuring fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago brings the work of UC Riverside researchers in the Australian Outback to the Inland Empire for the first time. “From California to Down Under: Fossils of the Ediacaran” opened March 15 at the Western Science Center in Hemet and will run until fall 2025. It features specimens and...
Jamal Myrick, director of UCR’s African Student Programs, or ASP, traveled to the South American country of Guyana in February to deliver 115 laptops to support education and employment opportunities in schools and underserved communities. The laptops, valued at $14,000, were spread across four organizations to develop internet cafes or computer...
The University of California system has awarded UC Riverside a $549,785 grant to expand efforts to diversify its engineering faculty. The award from the UC Office of the President aims to increase faculty diversity in UCR’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, or BCOE, by recruiting and mentoring prospective candidates before they...
Almost 150 years of Inland Empire history is now available to the UC Riverside campus community through the UCR Library. Last month, the library acquired access to the entire historical contents of the Press-Enterprise newspaper going back to its 1878 start as a weekly publication, known then as the Riverside Press. The newspaper archives were...
UC Riverside engineering students are benefiting from hands-on technical experiences to prepare for careers in advanced electronic engineering fields, thanks to equipment and software donations from Keysight Technologies. The state-of-the-art equipment from Keysight, an electronic design and test solutions company based in Santa Rosa, Calif...
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...
UC Riverside will raise funds for more than a dozen student support initiatives at its second annual gala on April 5. The evening at the SRC Arena will showcase talented faculty and students and honor alumni and philanthropic leaders who exemplify the university’s mission of social mobility, educational access, and research excellence. Tickets...
UC Riverside’s childcare center has an improved play space for children with the recent renovation of a playground. The Center for Early Childhood Education, or CECE, completed the renovation of its south yard in late January, replacing old equipment with new play structures including swings and slides. The project has been several years in the...
Creativity and ambition no longer need to be limited by access to technology thanks to UC Riverside Library’s latest research and creative space. The Scholarly Technology and Research, or STAR, Lab at the Orbach Science Library opened in January 2024 and provides students and researchers a dedicated space where they can use advanced digital tools...
UC Riverside will hold its third annual Give Day on March 4 and 5 with almost 100 projects that donors can support – the largest number of participants so far. UCR Give Day launched in 2023 as a way for donors to support students, research, and campus programs while focusing solely on UCR. Last year’s campaign raised $797,358.27 from 1,249 donors...
The UC Riverside School of Education, or SOE, has introduced a new mural in Sproul Hall, featuring "Walk With Her," a piece by artist Maurice “Pops” Peterson. The artwork reinterprets Norman Rockwell’s iconic 1964 painting, “The Problem We All Live With,” which depicts Ruby Bridges, one of the first Black students to integrate into an all-white...
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...
Dessert lovers have another sweet treat to enjoy at UC Riverside: Dining Services is now offering custom-made cakes baked fresh on campus. The cakes are available to order online through Sweet Tooth Bakery, the name used for baked goods made at the Glasgow Residential Restaurant and provided to other campus dining venues. Allison Eagan, who...
UCR’s division of Research and Economic Development, or RED, has announced faculty awardees of medium-sized grants (up to $50,000 each) for 12 research projects through its SoCal OASIS™ initiative, which stands for Opportunities to Advance Sustainability, Innovation, and Social Inclusion. The grant program is a key part of RED's broader commitment...
UC Riverside honored faculty members for their achievements at the 2025 Faculty Awards Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 6. About 170 people attended the dinner at the Mission Inn including faculty honorees and their family members, campus leaders, and deans, department chairs, and distinguished faculty. Faculty members were recognized for their promotions...
UC Riverside’s Orbach Library has a new roof as a part of a recently completed renovation project. The work, completed in early December, involved the complete demolition of the existing roof and replacing it with a new roofing system. The new roof is made of a fiberglass material with a 40-year life that has been used on other roof replacement...
UC Riverside professor Richard Carpiano will co-chair an international commission convened by the medical journal The Lancet to make communities worldwide more resilient to global health threats in the face of pandemics, climate change, and other challenges. “The idea is to go upstream to address fundamental societal and ecological issues—the...
