UC Riverside welcomed incoming students and their families for Highlander Day on Saturday, April 13. The event brought more than 2,700 future UCR students and nearly 9,000 people to UCR. Highlander Day is designed for admitted students and their families. Several schools, colleges, and departments held open houses and/or had booths all over campus...
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...
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...
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...
UC Riverside’s College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences will present talks on climate change, cosmology, and sustainability as part of its annual Science Lecture Series. The series will kick off March 5 with a presentation by Robert Allen, a professor of climatology, titled “The Escalating Climate Crisis.” Allen will discuss the widespread and...
From Jules Verne to Star Wars to Beyoncé, the many facets of science fiction and fantasy in popular culture are on display in a new exhibit at UC Riverside’s Tomás Rivera Library. “Eaton at the Movies” showcases film and television-related items from the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, which has more than 300,000 pieces of science...
UC Riverside students, staff, and faculty members can once again use their R’Card to ride Riverside Transit Agency buses. Riders can simply swipe their campus identification card at the electronic fare box when boarding. They can also use the agency’s Go Mobile app to activate a pass on their smartphone. Learn how to activate your pass here. For...
UC Riverside’s Spieth Hall has a new roof and an improved fume hood exhaust system as part of a recently completed renovation project. Replacing the aged roof on the building, which was built in 1957, was a major portion of the work, which began in summer 2022 and was completed this month. The old roof had leaks and areas where puddles would...
