UCR faculty and staff recall the kindergarten teacher who stood up for education, and stood out for a generation of parents

Kenneth Barish, the chair of the UC Riverside Department of Physics and Astronomy, formally began the Summer Physics Teacher Academy this year with opening remarks that included the following sobering statistics: Nationally, 33 percent of high school students take physics. In California, on average, 22 percent of high school students take physics...

Rodríguez is UCR’s Bank of America Chair in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Practice

If you think you're not a "math person," you might want to consider why

While we can’t predict when a big earthquake will occur in California, we can be prepared. Armed with 3D-printed maps of California’s faults, UCR’s Christos Kyriakopoulos, a researcher in earth sciences, and David Oglesby, professor and chair of the Department of Earth Sciences, recently attended a congressional hearing of the U.S. House of...

According to an analysis of federal data, the University of California, Riverside leads all major universities in enrolling and graduating students who receive Pell Grants. In a report titled, “ The Pell Divide: How Four-Year Institutions are Failing to Graduate Low- and Moderate-Income Students,” researchers at D.C.-based think tank Third Way...

By Suzanne Hartzell Even though California is a leader in technological innovation, it trails other states when it comes to computer science education in public schools. There is little professional development funding, high schools are not required to offer computer science courses and, until recently, there were no computer science curriculum...

UC Riverside's Andrew Shaler studies violence against indigenous communities during California's Gold Rush period

After a sold-out, two-night showcase in 2017, it was only a matter of time before the theater adaptation of children’s book ‘Princess Ten Ten and the Dark Skies’ returned to UCR. The musical, set for performances on May 25-26, follows Ten Ten, a girl rejected by her father for not conforming to societal gender norms as she finds her voice and...

Juan Felipe Herrera, acclaimed poet and professor emeritus in the Department of Creative Writing, will soon be able to list an elementary school in his roster of honors. Juan Felipe Herrera Elementary School, slated to open in August 2020, will be erected in southeast Fresno. The decision to honor Herrera, a Fresno County native, was announced May...

UC Riverside’s Organizational Excellence, or OE, movement held there 2nd annual OE Showcase on April 30th. OE is a grassroots initiative that seeks to create a culture that inspires all members of our campus community to improve the use of available resources so that we operate at maximum efficiency. The events purpose was to showcase the efforts...

Eleven University of California, Riverside students received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research fellowship, the preeminent award program recognizing NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students pursuing research-based graduate and doctoral degrees at accredited institutions in the United...

John Fischer, distinguished philosophy professor at the University of California, Riverside, led a discussion on near-death experiences and the stories they tell at UCR’s Alumni and Visitors Center on April 16. Fischer, who joined the UCR faculty in 1988, is widely regarded as a leading philosopher in the world on free will, moral responsibility...

Pedestrians who walk by parking lot 24 now have a row of newly planted pomegranate trees to admire – and eventually supply them with fruit. John Chater, a postdoctoral researcher with UC Riverside's Department of Botany and Plant Sciences and a 2016 University of California Global Food Initiative fellow, brought the first 13 trees to lot 24 on a...

UCR Student Affairs Administrators Earn Honors From NASPA Nancy Jean Tubbs with Naddia Palacios UC Riverside was among seven campuses honored by Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, or NASPA, with the organization’s Grand Gold Excellence Award for the groundbreaking T*Camp initiative. Established in 2011-12 by co-founders including...

UCR's David Chávez received the award from the Haynes Foundation for his ongoing research on the criminalization of youth in Los Angeles

UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox appeared on the nationally televised news program 60 Minutes as part of a segment on broadening access to higher education for low-income, first-generation, and minority students. Originally airing on Sunday, April 29, the 60 Minutes piece explores how philanthropy and innovation are helping to close the...

Phong Au-Hong, a senior in entomology, has received a Fulbright Award to help support English language development in immigrant and refugee students living in Germany. Au-Hong will teach as part of the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Programs, which place awardees in classrooms abroad to support local teachers. ETAs help teach English...

By Suzanne Hartzell In 1981, the Secretary of Education established the Commission on Excellence, and charged it to examine the quality of education in the U.S. The commission’s report, “A Nation at Risk,” shocked the nation with its dire predictions about the “rising tide of mediocrity” in schools and achievement. The College Board had discovered...

Two University of California, Riverside undergraduates — one studying physics and the other engineering and applied physics — have each won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious and competitive undergraduate STEM awards. UCR, which is one of the leading UC campuses for Goldwater Scholars, has had a total of eight...