UC Riverside has been designated as a bee-friendly campus and become an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, joining other institutions in improving the landscape for pollinators. An initiative of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Bee Campus USA and the associated Bee City USA program provide a framework for communities to work...
Graduating Highlanders began the countdown to commencement by joining the Senior Sendoff celebration at UC Riverside’s Rivera Lawn on Thursday, May 25. About 3,000 seniors signed up for the inaugural event where they picked up their tickets for the June commencement ceremonies at Toyota Arena in Ontario and had a chance to celebrate on campus. Some...
UC Riverside has released its strategic plan outlining its priorities for the next decade with the launch of the UCR 2030 website. The new plan concludes a process that began in 2018 as the campus reached the end of its previous 10-year plan, “UCR 2020: The Path to Preeminence” and began looking to the next decade. In an introductory video on the...
How do living systems establish themselves and work so well? This is a question UC Riverside physicists Nathaniel M. Gabor and Jed Kistner-Morris, as well as scholarly writing expert Benjamin W. Stewart explore in an article they published in this month’s issue of Physics Today, a magazine of the American Institute of Physics. The trio zero in on...
UC Riverside will see a major increase in construction activity in the coming months with several significant projects nearing completion or beginning soon. Those include a new School of Business building, which held its groundbreaking on April 27, and completion of a new School of Medicine building that will open this fall. Preliminary plans are...
UC Riverside and the Riverside Unified School District expect to release an environment impact report for a proposed STEM Education Center this summer. In advance of the environmental document, UCR has created a Frequently Asked Questions page with information on the proposed project. The FAQ includes details on its anticipated timing, funding, and...
The Gov. Newsom administration selected members of UCR’s Research and Economic Development team to join a California delegation that met with international entrepreneurs, investors, companies, and industry experts at a four-day investment summit in Maryland earlier this month. It was the first time the governor’s Office of Business and Economic...
UC Riverside ranked No. 27 out of 6,000 schools in a list celebrating top colleges delivering outstanding experiential learning opportunities to students. Forage, an educational technology startup that provides a job simulation platform, released its Experiential Learning Awards on April 27. The award recognizes the top 50 four-year institutions in...
Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida recounted stories from his 44-year career in journalism while illuminating the behind-the-scenes work of journalists as part of the 54th Annual Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture. Merida spoke to students, staff, faculty, and community members Tuesday, May 9 at the University Theater in the first in-person...
At the top floor of UC Riverside’s new Plant Research 1 building, geneticist Julia Bailey-Serres is testing how to grow rice to withstand drought and flooding conditions in countries like India. In the laboratory next to her, researcher Bao-Lam Huynh is growing new varieties of cowpea plants that will be sent to Africa. Their work takes advantage...
For her first time competing in Grad Slam, UC Riverside student Elissa Monteiro ended up going far. A doctoral student in school psychology, Monteiro last week won third place in UC Grad Slam 2023, an annual contest in which graduate students are judged on how well they communicate their research to a general audience in three minutes or less. The...
UC Riverside campus leaders honored faculty members for their achievements over the last two years at the Faculty Awards Dinner on Wednesday, May 3. The event recognized 57 faculty members for a variety of awards they received in 2021-22 from their departments, colleges, professional societies, national and international funding agencies, and elite...
More than 300 local elementary, middle, and high school students visited UC Riverside for Brain Awareness Day on Friday, April 28, touring campus labs and joining hands-on experiments to learn neuroscience. Hosted by the Neuroscience Graduate Student Association, the event provided visiting students a chance to learn how brain cells function in a...
From free donuts and coffee to cuddles with furry friends, UCR Staff Assembly provided staff members a chance to take a break and enjoy some fun during “Thank Goodness for Staff Week.” A series of in-person and virtual free events were held from Monday, April 24 to Friday, April 27. They included games of Bingo and Pictionary, an opportunity to...
UC Riverside celebrated a new chapter for the School of Business with a groundbreaking ceremony for a new instructional and administrative building that will provide increased space and modern facilities to meet growing enrollment demands. Campus and community leaders gathered Thursday, April 27 at former Parking Lot 8, where the four-story, 63,400...
U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-24 ranking of graduate programs in the U.S. includes high placements for several UC Riverside programs. UCR’s graduate Earth Sciences program in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, or CNAS, ranked No. 39 out of 156 universities, ahead of standout universities including Dartmouth, Purdue, and UNC Chapel...
A new campus effort aims to bring together UC Riverside’s Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to tackle the shared challenges they face as students, faculty, and staff members, and to explore new opportunities. In May, which is also Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Awareness Month, UCR’s Asian American and Native American...
A newly renovated restroom at UC Riverside’s Spieth Hall is part of a pilot project to add more gender inclusive facilities on campus. The project represents a major step towards increased accessibility for members of the transgender, gender-nonconforming, and LGBT community on campus who have advocated for more gender inclusive restrooms in...
