A $550,000 grant will allow students at UC Riverside and other nearby minority-serving institutions, or MSIs, to participate in a research training academy and get hands-on experience contributing to a study on publicly engaged research in political science. The project, “Assessing the Effects of a Publicly Engaged Political Science using the MSI...
A research project by a UC Riverside mechanical engineering team could play an important part in helping to reduce the impact of pollutants from vehicles. The research team deployed weather towers, air samplers, balloons, and even drones to collect air samples in Riverside and Chino Hills in July and August. The researchers will analyze the data...
When Belen Cardenas, 20, a third-year English major, visited the UC Riverside Library Special Collections and University Archives to research Chicano history she had no idea how personal it would become. She and her classmates visited the Tomás Rivera Library as part of a summer class researching Chicano history. She ended up finding a personal...
When NASA launches the Artemis I rocket on Monday, Aug. 29, UC Riverside employee Jessica Estrada will have a rare close-up vantage point — one she will be sharing with the world through social media. Estrada, a program coordinator with the University Eastside Community Collaborative, an AmeriCorps program in the Center for Educational and...
Approximately 70 high school students who are considering careers in STEM, or science, technology, engineering, and math, industries spent three days at the UC Riverside campus engaging with industry experts and other teens from surrounding Riverside and San Bernardino County high schools, many of them from Riverside Unified School District. STEM...
For more than 2,000 years, pilgrims have walked the 500-mile path in Spain known as Camino de Santiago. Kathy Kim, a senior director of development, education, and policy at UC Riverside's Office of Development, was among thousands to make that journey this summer. Kim used the opportunity to raise funds for the School of Public Policy Student...
UC Riverside will be showcased in an upcoming episode of “ The College Tour,” a television series that profiles campuses through student stories and is available on Amazon Prime and many other streaming platforms. A television crew completed a week of filming across multiple campus locations that included interviews with 10 students in late July...
UC Riverside is moving to a new travel and expense system with updated technology that makes it easier for travelers to manage payments and receive reimbursements. The campus officially deployed the Concur Travel and Expense System on Monday, July 25 following eight months of planning. It’s the first of several updates to aging financial...
It was the little plant that raised a big stink for a brief window of time. The UC Riverside Botanic Gardens drew record crowds over the past week with visitors from all over Southern California coming by to catch a glimpse and whiff of Little Miss Stinky. The rare corpse plant, which grew from 1999 seeds and was acquired in 2007, began blooming...
A rare sight — and smell — is on display at the UC Riverside Botanic Gardens with a corpse plant expected to bloom in the coming days. This will be the first time it has bloomed since the gardens began growing the tropical plant, officially known as Amorphophallus titanum, in 2007 from seeds acquired from the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and...
It began with angry social media messages before ballooning into full threats and a takeover of UC Riverside computer systems controlling fire sprinklers at Tomas Rivera Library. That was the scenario of a cultural heritage preservation and cybersecurity drill held Wednesday, July 13 that included 25 participants from campus departments and off...
UC Riverside welcomed Operation Purple Camp back to campus last week, giving 80 military-connected kids a taste of college life with summer camp activities. The campus first hosted the camp, a program organized by the National Military Family Association, in 2019. The week-long stay, from July 10 to July 14, was its first return since then as the...
