UC Riverside returned to the Riverside Festival of Lights this holiday season offering treats and photo ops with Scotty the Bear. More than 570 visitors stopped by the “Bold Hearts, Brilliant Minds” booth on UCR Night at the Festival of Lights on Friday, Dec. 8. Festival goers, including students and alumni, received UCR-branded cookies, light-up...
Navigating the new world of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, can be difficult for the average user. Figuring out how to best use those tools in a university setting poses even more questions. A new Slack workspace offers UC Riverside instructors and staff members a forum to come to together to answer those questions. Rich Yueh, an assistant...
At night, UC Riverside’s campus looks different as the daytime hustle and bustle gives way to a quiet stillness. But behind the scenes, a busy group of employees is responsible for keeping vital operations running. The overnight shift includes police officers patrolling the campus, custodial crews cleaning buildings, and Dining Services employees...
Just like telephone booths and rotary phones, traditional desk phones will soon be a relic of the past at UC Riverside. The campus is in the process of moving its phone lines to Zoom Phone Services, in which calls can be made or received on a desktop or laptop computer or smartphone. More than half the campus desk phone lines have been switched to...
UC Riverside will join Giving Tuesday on Nov. 28, encouraging donors to support campus programs, scholarships, and initiatives. This year, 29 different funds will be featured on the Giving Tuesday website as part of International Day of Giving. They include colleges, units, affinity groups, and programs supporting the university. The campaigns...
UC Riverside and its community partners celebrated a unique collaboration Wednesday, Nov. 4 as construction begins on a new housing complex that will be home to future university and community college students. The North District Phase 2 project represents a first for both UCR and the Riverside Community College District, or RCCD, creating a...
Call it the Campus Space Shuffle. Hybrid work has swept over the campus post-pandemic, an office space dynamic that is compounded by the campus giving up leases in University Village this month, a business park on Chicago Avenue soon, and in the Intellicenter on Meridian Parkway. With the purchase of a new office building on Iowa Avenue and a...
Attendees included National Academy of Sciences members and prominent scientists from UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Stanford University, University of Toronto SickKids Research Institute, and City of Hope
UC Riverside’s Homecoming 2023 drew large crowds of Highlanders on Saturday, Nov. 4, for festivities including a performance by R&B superstars TLC. Alumni and their families enjoyed fun activities such as a Ferris wheel, and a 360-degree photo booth. A dedicated Family Zone included games, face painting, caricatures, coloring sheets, and other kid...
Inside UCR is launching a recurring feature spotlighting faculty and staff members who recently retired. Find out more about the contributions of UCR colleagues with 25 years or more of service in the short profiles that follow. Retirees with less than 25 years are listed below. The list includes employees who filed for retirement in 2023 and...
Open Enrollment, UC employees' opportunity to enroll in the right benefits, started on Oct. 26 and extends through Nov. 17 at 5 p.m. Health care costs — and medical plan premiums — are increasing nationwide, including for UC. Monthly premium costs for employees are increasing: For UC Blue & Gold HMO, by around 15% for coverage that includes a...
UC Riverside is one of 46 Hispanic-Serving Institutions, or HSIs, recognized by the U.S. Department of State as Fulbright HSI Leaders. The recognition, announced Monday, Oct. 30, acknowledges noteworthy support for Fulbright exchange participants and promotion of Fulbright program opportunities on campus in the previous year. The Fulbright program...
UC Riverside employees who live in the Inland Empire will be able to ride Metrolink for free as part of a new promotion. IE Commuter is working with UCR Transportation Services to test out the program, which is expected to have a wider launch next year. IE Commuter is funded by the Riverside County Transportation Commission and San Bernardino...
UC Riverside honored faculty members for their achievements at two ceremonies on Oct. 12. The 2023 Distinguished Faculty Luncheon was held at the Alumni and Visitors Center, followed by the Faculty Recognition Dinner at the Mission Inn Hotel and Spa. Faculty members were honored for their awards, promotions, and advancements during the 2022-23...
UC Riverside and the U.S. Department of Energy will host the inaugural “ DOE to the People” on Nov. 7, where researchers and students can meet with government and industry representatives on campus to learn about research funding and job and internship opportunities. The day-long event will feature leaders from the Department of Energy, or DOE, and...
UC Riverside welcomed 52 new permanent faculty members for the 2023-2024 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 American politics to robot artificial intelligence to plant biochemistry. They include researchers from several top...
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 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...
