UC Riverside will begin work this month on a major student instructional facility in the heart of the campus. The Student Success Center will help address a shortfall in classroom space with seating for 1,100. It will include medium to large-sized lecture halls, multi-purpose rooms, study space, and a student lounge. Located on the lawn area south...

UC Riverside and the Riverside Unified School District are in the process of evaluating a potential site for a proposed STEM high school. The campus and school district agreed in 2015 to work together on plans to expand Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, or STEM, opportunities with a partnership that builds on the success of the district’s...

Rodolfo Torres studied to be a mathematician, but he’s long been curious about different disciplines, finding ways to explore mathematical theories in other areas such as biology and engineering. “At some point, you think, `There are so many different things to research,’” said Torres, who took over as UC Riverside’s vice chancellor of Research and...

Riverside recently hosted the California Invasive Plant Council symposium for the first time in the history of the decades-old gathering. “Having the symposium here underscores UC Riverside’s long-standing and growing importance to the field of land management and invasive plant species research,” said event committee member Lynn Sweet, a plant...

UC Riverside is among the top institutions in the world, particularly for plant and animal science research, according to a new U.S. News & World Report ranking. The campus also won recognition for its environmental practices, landing in the Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Colleges. UCR was tied for No. 149 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best...

Five-year research project is funded by National Institutes of Health

Three graduates received the 2019 Alumni Awards of Distinction at the annual Chancellor’s Dinner on Oct. 19: Helen Newman ’79, founder of Veterinary Transplant Services; Jerry Swain ’89, founder of Jer’s Chocolates; and state Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes '09. The UCR Medallion was presented to Jack and Laura Dangermond, founders of Redlands...

On Oct. 17 at 10:17 a.m., the normal routine at UC Riverside was disrupted by the sound of emergency sirens and a warning blaring from speakers on top of the bell tower. Inside the Emergency Operations Center, or EOC, at the Environmental Health and Safety Building, emergency personnel monitored a computer dashboard on a large screen with a live...

Thursday Nights Live is back for a fall season that will also be it’s last at the HUB plaza. But the weekly live music series, which kicked off Thursday, Oct. 17, will return in a new form at the newly renovated Barn in the winter quarter. Thursday Nights Live offers UC Riverside staff and faculty members an opportunity to unwind with cocktails and...

The California Air Resources Board formalizes agreements offering classes, facility tours, and more to Riverside schools

A series of campus programs for undergraduates including workshops, networking events, and one-on-one mentoring will start this fall

From flu shots to free swag, UC Riverside students, faculty, and staff members explored a variety of healthy living resources at the UCR Healthy Campus 2nd Annual Celebration on Thursday, Oct. 10. The two-hour event next to the bell tower included more than 40 booths representing groups and projects associated with Healthy Campus. Many offered...

Emerbee’s, UCR’s newest dining café, celebrated its grand opening Oct. 3 with music, giveaways, and a whole lot about bees. A long line of customers joined the noontime event, which included a ribbon-cutting ceremony and remarks by Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox. The 600-square-foot café, located next to the Multidisciplinary Research Building...

UC Riverside will join more than 10 million Californians in testing earthquake preparedness as part of the annual Great California ShakeOut on Oct. 17. Students, staff, and faculty members will be asked to “drop, cover, and hold on” for 1 minute during the earthquake drill that will start at 10:17 a.m. The campus will test its emergency...

UC President Janet Napolitano helped usher in a new student housing project, toured several buildings, and met with students, staff, and faculty members during an Oct. 4 visit to UC Riverside. Her packed schedule included classroom visits, a tour of campus facilities such as the School of Medicine and Multidisciplinary Research Building, a...

A quarter-long Department of Dance course includes research presentations, demonstrations, and free workshops that are open to the campus community.

Providing a college home for students isn’t a new function for the 50-acre site on the north side of the UC Riverside campus. It’s been home for UCR students throughout the campus’s history: the North District project is simply the newest chapter. That was the message repeated in remarks at the groundbreaking for the largest-ever building project...

UC Riverside will mark the start of a major new project this month with an Oct. 4 groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase of the North District. The first phase mixed-use community will provide 1,500 apartment-style beds for students. Future phases will include new dining facilities, mixed-use residential and athletic facilities, and additional...

California citrus growers and UC Riverside joined forces to combat Huanglongbing

A $30 million multilevel parking structure that is expected to begin construction early next year will be funded by a parking rate increase that went into effect for 2019-20. The project is planned for the east side of Parking Lot 13 and will provide a net increase of 800 spaces. The project is expected to take a year to complete and open in early...