Student captures campus landscape to win R’Card contest

UC Riverside’s natural landscape served as inspiration for second-year student Valerie Cheng’s photo illustration that won the 2026 R’Card photo contest on March 19. Her colorful entry, featuring orange trees and a blue sky, will be the background image on R’Cards distributed to students, staff, and faculty members for the 2026-2027 academic year...

By Yash Sunkesula |

From orchard to campus: How UCR ice cream is made

Walking through rows of citrus groves on a sunny April morning, about a dozen UC Riverside Dining Services employees picked fruit off trees and loaded it in crates into the bed of a truck. A little more than a month later at the Scoops Ice Cream shop at the HUB, Brian Alcantara, retail restaurant manager for HUB operations, ladled ice cream freshly...

By Imran Ghori |

Scotty’s selling OJ, new sandwich and salad varieties, and more

Freshly squeezed orange juice is back for sale at the Scotty’s convenience store at the HUB. It’s one of several new food and beverage products that UC Riverside Dining Services recently added to its stores. Campus customers may have also noted some new sandwich, salad, and snack options this quarter. Mary Ann Person, operations manager for the...

By Imran Ghori |

Givaudan brings its Virtual Taste Trek to Riverside

Virtual reality goggles and scent tubes recreate a stroll through UCR’s citrus groves

By Holly Ober |

Citrus Day didn’t hit a single sour note

Not even forceful Santa Ana winds deterred scientists and growers

By Holly Ober |

New lab is California’s best defense against deadly citrus disease

California citrus growers and UC Riverside joined forces to combat Huanglongbing

By Holly Ober |