As UC Riverside marks Earth Month with a number of activities, the campus is taking more steps to meet its zero-waste goal. Facilities Services now diverts over half of the material previously sent to landfills to recycling and composting streams. A recent change in waste haulers has allowed the campus to recycle and compost even more material...
UC Riverside’s Native American community celebrated the new Native American Garden on campus with music and dance in the first large gathering in the space since the project opened. The grand opening celebration on Tuesday, April 9, featured the Mountain Cahuilla Bird Singers, who danced and sang in the sand circle at the center of the garden to a...
Electric scooters and bikes are viewed by students as a convenient, eco-friendly way to get around campus. But the high value of these vehicles, combined with students’ habit of leaving them unattended, has led to a rise in thefts on campus at UC Riverside. Starting in 2024, UCR’s campus police department has seen a rise in personal electric...
UC Riverside paid tribute to alumni, philanthropic, and humanitarian leaders at UCR Honors: A Gala Celebration on Saturday, April 6. More than 200 guests attended the first-of-its-kind event, held at the Student Recreation Center, which was transformed into a blue carpet, black-tie venue for an evening of music, drinks, dining, and tributes. In...
A garden has been planted near UC Riverside’s westside entrance, providing a new look to the strip of land while creating a more sustainable and bee-friendly environment. Facilities Services removed grass turf from the 3,200-square-foot area in front of Parking Lot 1, across from Hinderaker Hall, and replaced it with plants, trees, and cobblestone...
After a rainy winter, spring has arrived and plants are blooming at the UC Riverside Botanic Gardens. Visitors can enjoy sights like a tree peony flower, California poppies, and turtles perching on logs in a creek. The South Africa Garden is full of color with aloes and ice plants while across the trail blooming lilacs have a strong scent. The...
For more than 25 years, Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison, has been supporting research and scholarship at UC Riverside, investing in more than 150 STEM scholars and various STEM programs. The company’s most recent gift, $145,000 over the 2023-24 academic year, supports sustainability research, scholarships, and...
UC Riverside’s Creat’R Lab has served as an innovative space for students seeking to bring their creative and academic projects to life. Located in Orbach Library, the space has expanded in recent months to offer new tools for robotics and virtual reality projects. Managed by both staff and students, the lab offers a wide range of resources...
Everything you have been told about home composting is wrong. At least, oversimplified. That’s what you’ll conclude after you spend some time with UCR postdoctoral researcher and Master Gardener Clifford Morrison. He’s already got a Ph.D., in chemical and biological engineering, but if they’re ever handing out doctoral degrees for composting...
More than 200 UC Riverside alumni, students, parents, employees, and community members volunteered for community service projects throughout California and as far away as London and Hawaii. Highlander volunteers participated in 20 projects, completing 673 hours on Highlander Day of Service on March 16. The projects included picking up 65 bags of...
As UC Riverside reaches out to donors for its second annual UCR Give Day on April 3 and 4, it is highlighting the stories of students like Alexis Carmona. A first-generation student and cancer survivor whose family immigrated from Mexico, Carmona knows first-hand the need for more physicians to serve her community. She’s been able to pursue her...
UC Riverside students will have a new dining spot to satisfy late-night cravings with NOODS: The Noodle Bar. The restaurant will open to the public April 1 at the Market at Glen Mor at the dining station formally occupied by the Sizzle burger and sandwich counter. It features an assortment of noodles and sauces in different Asian styles. Customers...
UC Riverside’s multi-factor authentication tool, Duo, will have a new look starting March 25. Information Technology Solutions, or ITS, is upgrading to the platform’s new Universal Prompt to enhance user security. What’s changed? New look and feel: When logging into secure UCR resources, the Duo multi-factor authentication window will look...
Michael Madrigal, a graduate student in Ethnic and Native American studies, walks along a sandy path in the new UC Riverside Native American Garden and points out the plants that he vibes with the most. He shares the American-English name, then the Cahuilla name, and then each plant’s significance to Native American people. “White sage, or ‘qasily...
A new UC Riverside campus map makes it easier to get around campus with features such as step-by-step directions and a category menu for different types of resources. The revamped UCR map website, which launched in late February, offers more interactive tools including wayfinding that provides walking or driving directions to any location at the 1...
UC Riverside students can now help shape the menus at campus dining venues as part of a new student dining committee. Dining Services launched the Dining Advisory Committee last fall, inviting students to meet with department leaders and offer their opinions on what they like and suggestions on what they’d like to see at venues like the Glasgow and...
An attempt to address the growing mistrust of the media by many Americans led to the creation of the popular podcast “The Daily,” according to New York Times journalist Michael Barbaro. Barbaro was speaking to students, staff, faculty, and community members Monday, March 4 at UC Riverside’s University Theatre. Barbaro, who presented the 55th Annual...
