UC Riverside students, staff, and faculty can look forward to more dining options, including a reopening of the Stable and new concepts such as a french fry station, an ice cream parlor, and restaurants specializing in noodles and kosher food. The Stable dining lounge at the Barn, which had been closed over the summer, will open on Oct. 16...
UC Riverside will join the Great California ShakeOut in testing earthquake preparedness on Thursday, Oct. 19. Students, staff, and faculty members will be asked to “drop, cover, and hold on” for one minute during the earthquake drill that will start at 10:19 a.m. The campus will test its emergency communication systems during the self-led drill...
UC Riverside welcomed 26,000 new and returning students and kicked off the fall quarter with a variety of Welcome Week activities. Students began moving to campus housing on Sept. 24 with the first day of instruction starting Sept. 28. Campus departments and groups hosted a variety of fun and informative events to help them discover new resources...
UC Riverside leaders reflected on the 10-year anniversary of the School of Medicine and looked to the future as they celebrated the opening of a new educational building. More than 300 guests attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the School of Medicine Education Building II on Tuesday, Sept. 26, including local legislative leaders and two members...
UC Riverside celebrated the completion of its new Student Health and Counseling Center on Friday, Sept. 22 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The 39,450-square-foot, two-story building at the north side of campus brings together medical, mental health, and well-being services into one location and modern facility for the first time. “It just seems...
UC Riverside’s new Native American Landscape Garden is now open at the center of campus. Campus leaders and others involved in its planning celebrated the project’s completion with a walk-through of the 20,000-square-foot garden on Friday, Sept. 22, which also happened to be California Native American Day. The committee members, which included...
UC Riverside’s School of Medicine is celebrating a major milestone with the completion of a new instructional and administrative building that will allow it to increase enrollment. Following two years of construction, the School of Medicine Education Building II is opening this fall, just as the school celebrates its 10th anniversary. A ribbon...
Finding in-person help from UC Riverside’s BearHelp team is easier than ever with a new program stationing technicians at the two campus libraries. Starting this fall, Information Technology Solutions, or ITS, is partnering with the UCR Library to offer technical support at the Tomás Rivera and Orbach Science libraries. A technician and a student...
UC Riverside is taking its approach to health and wellness to a new level with the opening of the Student Health and Counseling Center later this month. The 39,450-square-foot, two-story building at the north side of campus brings together medical, mental health, and wellbeing services into one location and modern facility for the first time. A...
The explosive growth of hundreds of GIS applications in industry and government has put UCR's six-year-old Center for Geospatial Science in a growth mode.
The Community Partner Fair returns to UC Riverside on Sept. 20, kicking off a new academic year in which UCR Staff Assembly hopes to build more campus involvement. The fair will feature about 40 vendors, a KUCR DJ playing music, prize drawings, and free ice cream and shaved ice. It will once again take place outdoors under the arches in front of...
UC Riverside employees marked the start of a new academic year with the Chancellor’s Faculty and Staff Picnic Tuesday, Sept. 12 at the HUB Plaza. Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox welcomed the over 700 employees attending the event and thanked UCR Staff Assembly for its involvement. “It’s great to have everybody together and get a chance to see people I don...
U.S. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal spoke about the importance of educational opportunity in meetings with UC Riverside administrators and students during a campus visit on Thursday, Sept. 7. Kvaal, who leads the Department of Education’s work on higher education and student financial aid, also met with journalists from around the country...
UC Riverside has purchased an office building near campus where it will consolidate employees currently working in leased space. The purchase, which closed Aug. 25, is part of a shift to move employees from leased offices to university-owned buildings that is expected to provide substantial savings. It also allows the university to move them from...
For more than 30 years, UCR Riverside has provided early childhood education and childcare services for employees and students. The program, which is part of UCR’s Auxiliary Services, marked a new chapter on Sept. 1 as it celebrated its new name as the Center for Early Childhood Education. Formerly known as Early Childhood Services, the change...
UC Riverside’s Summer Sessions 2023 wraps up this week, with the last batch of summer quarter’s final exams on September 2. Over 9,000 students enrolled in summer courses this year. The concept of summer school got a reboot this year thanks to a collaboration between UC Riverside’s Enrollment Marketing and Enrollment Services that emphasized the...
UC Riverside’s California Digital Newspaper Collection, or CDNC, has received a $321,282 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program, or NDNP, which is managed by the Library of Congress. The CDNC is one of several digital humanities projects within UCR’s Center for...
The fall season can be a time of stress and anxiety for many as they anticipate busier schedules and added responsibilities. UC Riverside Human Resources offers a number of resources for employees to prepare for the new school year. Hung Wu, wellness coordinator for Workplace Health and Wellness, said it’s important for faculty and staff members to...
A new walkway under construction at UC Riverside will provide easier access at the northwest corner of campus, including to and from a major new student housing project. The South Recreation Mall project began construction in spring and is expected to be completed by fall, said Daneca Stevens, a project manager with the Office of Planning, Design...
