Scientists and musicians came together to talk about microscopic worms and perform chamber music at UC Riverside’s Culver Center of the Arts on Friday, Sept. 27. The “Earworm” event aimed to demonstrate the synergy between the two seemingly unconnected disciplines. Researcher Sophie Zaaijer, who served as emcee, described how scientists, like...
UC Riverside astrobiologist Stephen Kane joined efforts to promote two missions to Venus by going to Capitol Hill to advocate for continued congressional funding. Kane is assisting with two planned NASA missions to Venus that will be the first by the U.S. in over 30 years. He is on the science team for the DAVINCI mission, which will measure gases...
UC Riverside welcomed 74 new permanent faculty members for the 2024-2025 academic year who come from a variety of disciplines and research interests. The new faculty members offer expertise on a wide range of subjects from the economics of immigration to the history of California Indians. Their research covers a wide variety of topics including...
UC Riverside celebrated the start of a new chapter for the School of Business with the dedication of its new four-story instructional and administrative building at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, Oct. 18. The 63,400-square-foot building, which includes classrooms, administrative and faculty offices, and a cafe, was completed last month after a...
UC Riverside will complete its initial move of some employees to a new office building this month as part of an effort to consolidate off-campus workers at one site. University Advancement will have moved most of its employees to the new location by the end of October, following months of preparation work at the building. UCR bought the building on...
When Camila Acosta left her native Venezuela as a 15-year-old, she never imagined she would be the voice of UC Riverside to a new generation of Latino students and families. Acosta provides the voice-over for a new Spanish-language UCR video as part of the “Bold Hearts. Brilliant Minds.” campaign, narrating how the diverse campus brings together...
UC Riverside celebrated its growth and future with campus and community leaders at a groundbreaking ceremony for a major student instructional building on Friday, Oct. 4. About 75 people attended the event at former Parking Lot 19, where the four-story, 100,700-square-foot Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Facility is being built. With a seating...
A new café, an ice cream shop, and Asian street food are among the new campus dining options that UC Riverside students and employees can discover this fall. The campus will also be able to enjoy expanded hours at NOODS: The Noodle Bar and look forward to the launch of an online cake ordering service. Meanwhile, campus venues like the Barn and the...
UC Riverside’s Orbach Library will get a new roof as a part of a renovation project that began in September. The project involves a complete demolition of the existing roof and replacing it with a new roofing system. The work is expected to be completed in December, weather permitting. The old roof of the 1998 building had become leaky, with water...
UC Riverside welcomed thousands of new and returning students as the campus kicked off the fall quarter. Students began moving in to campus housing on Sept. 19 with the first day of classes beginning Sept. 26. Campus departments and groups held a variety of fun and informative Welcome Week events to help them discover new resources and explore the...
UC Riverside students and employees can now take their first step towards international travel on campus. Campus Business Services is providing passport application and renewal services at the Highlander Service Station near the HUB Plaza. The office began offering the service in July and has seen a steady stream of applications since then. As of...
I scream, you scream, UCR ice cream. Highlanders will no longer have to look far for frozen treats on campus. An ice cream shop with exclusive UC Riverside citrus flavors is opening at the HUB. Scoops Ice Cream Shop will open Thursday, Sept. 26, the first day of instruction for the fall quarter. Located in the food court, the ice cream shop will...
UC Riverside celebrated the start of a new academic year with the Chancellor’s Faculty and Staff Picnic Tuesday, Sept. 10. For the second year, the picnic was held at the HUB Plaza. Some attendees dined at the outdoor patio while others gathered inside the HUB for shade and cooler temperatures during the heat. Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox welcomed...
A UC Riverside program offering students an opportunity to study abroad in faculty-taught courses reached a milestone this summer with its largest number of classes and enrollees since the pandemic. The Faculty-Led Education Abroad Program, or FLEAP, had 109 students in nine courses, its highest number since 2018 when it had 119 students. The...
The Community Partner Fair returns to UC Riverside on Sept. 18, providing opportunities to learn about resources and services as the new academic year starts. The fair, sponsored by UCR Staff Assembly, will feature more than 40 vendors, activities, shaved ice, and prize drawings. It will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. under the arches in front...
A summer renovation project of UC Riverside’s Arts Building will help fix drainage problems at the site. Since June, the building has been surrounded by fencing as construction crews began work. The project involves removing concrete in some areas of the outside plaza level of the building. A new concrete surface has been added in these areas with...
UC Riverside has received a nearly half-million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to build on a program training graduate students in science communication and create a national framework for science policy training. For six years, the Science to Policy program, or S2P, has offered a certificate course providing students the tools...
UC Riverside is testing out a new ground cover plant that could reduce water usage while keeping the campus looking green. Kurapia, a low-growing leafy ground cover, was planted at the Pentland Hills and Glen Mor student residence halls by Facilities Services in late June. The landscape crew is testing out the plant, which requires less water than...
Love for astronomy begins in childhood. With that in mind, three UC Riverside astronomers gave a presentation on August 3 to hundreds of children on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi on what infrared radiation is and how telescopes use it. Infrared radiation is part of the electromagnetic spectrum that exists between visible light and radio waves...
