UC Riverside will see a major increase in construction activity in the coming months with several significant projects nearing completion or beginning soon. Those include a new School of Business building, which held its groundbreaking on April 27, and completion of a new School of Medicine building that will open this fall. Preliminary plans are...

UC Riverside and the Riverside Unified School District expect to release an environment impact report for a proposed STEM Education Center this summer. In advance of the environmental document, UCR has created a Frequently Asked Questions page with information on the proposed project. The FAQ includes details on its anticipated timing, funding, and...

UC Riverside ranked No. 27 out of 6,000 schools in a list celebrating top colleges delivering outstanding experiential learning opportunities to students. Forage, an educational technology startup that provides a job simulation platform, released its Experiential Learning Awards on April 27. The award recognizes the top 50 four-year institutions in...

Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida recounted stories from his 44-year career in journalism while illuminating the behind-the-scenes work of journalists as part of the 54th Annual Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture. Merida spoke to students, staff, faculty, and community members Tuesday, May 9 at the University Theater in the first in-person...

At the top floor of UC Riverside’s new Plant Research 1 building, geneticist Julia Bailey-Serres is testing how to grow rice to withstand drought and flooding conditions in countries like India. In the laboratory next to her, researcher Bao-Lam Huynh is growing new varieties of cowpea plants that will be sent to Africa. Their work takes advantage...

For her first time competing in Grad Slam, UC Riverside student Elissa Monteiro ended up going far. A doctoral student in school psychology, Monteiro last week won third place in UC Grad Slam 2023, an annual contest in which graduate students are judged on how well they communicate their research to a general audience in three minutes or less. The...

UC Riverside campus leaders honored faculty members for their achievements over the last two years at the Faculty Awards Dinner on Wednesday, May 3. The event recognized 57 faculty members for a variety of awards they received in 2021-22 from their departments, colleges, professional societies, national and international funding agencies, and elite...

More than 300 local elementary, middle, and high school students visited UC Riverside for Brain Awareness Day on Friday, April 28, touring campus labs and joining hands-on experiments to learn neuroscience. Hosted by the Neuroscience Graduate Student Association, the event provided visiting students a chance to learn how brain cells function in a...

From free donuts and coffee to cuddles with furry friends, UCR Staff Assembly provided staff members a chance to take a break and enjoy some fun during “Thank Goodness for Staff Week.” A series of in-person and virtual free events were held from Monday, April 24 to Friday, April 27. They included games of Bingo and Pictionary, an opportunity to...

UC Riverside celebrated a new chapter for the School of Business with a groundbreaking ceremony for a new instructional and administrative building that will provide increased space and modern facilities to meet growing enrollment demands. Campus and community leaders gathered Thursday, April 27 at former Parking Lot 8, where the four-story, 63,400...

U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-24 ranking of graduate programs in the U.S. includes high placements for several UC Riverside programs. UCR’s graduate Earth Sciences program in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, or CNAS, ranked No. 39 out of 156 universities, ahead of standout universities including Dartmouth, Purdue, and UNC Chapel...

A new campus effort aims to bring together UC Riverside’s Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to tackle the shared challenges they face as students, faculty, and staff members, and to explore new opportunities. In May, which is also Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Awareness Month, UCR’s Asian American and Native American...

A newly renovated restroom at UC Riverside’s Spieth Hall is part of a pilot project to add more gender inclusive facilities on campus. The project represents a major step towards increased accessibility for members of the transgender, gender-nonconforming, and LGBT community on campus who have advocated for more gender inclusive restrooms in...

UC Riverside community members and friends gave back in a big way for the university’s first UCR Give Day. The Office of Annual Giving reported initial results of $462,546 raised with 1,700 gifts, surpassing the $388,000 raised on Giving Tuesday in November 2021, the last major campus fundraiser. Donations are still being processed so a fuller...

Emerbee’s is back in business serving honey-infused drinks and sandwiches to hungry Highlanders. The 600-square-foot café near the center of UC Riverside opened in September of 2019 but had been closed since March 2020 when pandemic-related shutdowns began. Emerbee’s began serving customers again in early April as part of a soft launch that...

As a writer and editor for UC Riverside’s School of Medicine, Erika Klein chronicles students and faculty members’ efforts to reach new heights in public health. In her spare time, Klein literally reaches for the skies as an accomplished hang glider pilot who teaches the sport to others and has built up a substantial social media presence. She has...

A street improvement project at UC Riverside’s south campus entrance could mean some delays for commuters starting next week. The City of Riverside is repaving both directions of Martin Luther King Boulevard between Chicago Avenue and the 60/215 freeway as part of a capital improvement project. Delays in the area are expected starting the week of...

Louie Rodríguez started his new role as vice provost and dean of Undergraduate Education, or VPDUE, for UC Riverside on April 1. Rodríguez is a longtime professor in UCR’s Graduate School of Education and served as the school’s interim dean from 2019 to 2022. “As I look ahead, I plan to identify, celebrate, and amplify best practices with our...

On a sunny spring day, Oscar Jacques, a campus safety responder with UC Riverside’s police department, walks through the HUB Plaza, stopping to chat with students and introduce himself. Some of the students are unsure what to expect as Jacques, dressed in a tan knit shirt with his name and job title embroidered on his chest, dark khaki pants, and a...

The UC Riverside episode of “The College Tour” will go up on Amazon Prime this week following its debut on YouTube last fall. The series, which highlights colleges and universities, gave a national audience a taste of what life is like on campus through student testimonials. The 30-minute episode – the 70th in the series – was filmed on campus last...