UC Riverside will participate in the four-week Cool Campus Challenge starting April 1 as part of the University of California’s campaign to reduce its carbon footprint. All 10 UC campuses and the Office of the President will take part in the friendly competition to motivate students, faculty, and staff to lower carbon emissions through actions...

Construction of an outdoor art sculpture in front of the Arts Building is now underway with crews fencing off the walkway and beginning excavation work. The sculpture, titled “Arts Mall: Roy McMakin Change Things, Things Change,” faced some delays due to rainy weather in February and March, said Jason Espinoza, a project manager with the Department...

UC Riverside faculty, staff, and students who use the Big Springs Road campus entrance can expect some delays in April due to a city public works project. The city began repaving select streets near the east side of campus earlier this month, beginning with concrete repairs to sidewalks, curbs, and gutters. Street paving on Big Springs between...

Students from Hemet High School and Corona’s Centennial High School visited UC Riverside’s Department of Physics and Astronomy this week to participate in the International Particle Physics Masterclass, an annual program of the European Particle Physics Outreach Group. The Masterclass is an interactive two-day exercise in which high school students...

UC Riverside Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Cynthia K. Larive celebrated recent research successes, promoted ways to improve the campus climate, and outlined how the campus plans to help more students carry a full load of classes during a town hall meeting Wednesday. Encouraging students to take more units each quarter will be a campus...

UC Riverside is moving toward a smarter way to dispose of waste. In the last few weeks, rectangular-shaped trash bins that resemble R2-D2 have popped up around the bell tower and Lot 30. The Bigbelly bins — named for their manufacturer — come with solar panels on top that power built-in compactors. Facilities Services removed 20 of the traditional...

UC Riverside Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Cynthia K. Larive will hold her annual town hall meeting on March 6 where she will highlight issues including student success. Larive said she plans to celebrate recent campus successes in research and student advising, and talk about how daily actions can positively affect the campus climate. The...

UC Riverside’s first major outdoor sculpture will begin to take shape in the coming weeks with a project by San Diego-based artist Roy McMakin that planners say will serve as a gateway to the campus. While the campus has scenic views of nearby hills and notable building architecture, it has few pieces of outdoor art. That will change with what...

From new residence halls at the north end of campus to the renovation of the Barn, UC Riverside is abuzz with construction activity, and it’s just the beginning. This year will be one of the busiest in campus history with about $400 million worth of projects under construction, including several new or renovated buildings. The construction boom...

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UC Riverside is among the Top 50 green colleges and ranks among those considered a great value in the latest college rankings by the Princeton Review. UCR’s No. 29 ranking in the publication’s greenest-colleges list is the second time in as many months the campus has been lauded for its environmentally friendly policies. UCR came in No. 16 among...

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Convenient distribution of fresh produce, safe-sex vending machines, and stress relief workshops are among six 2019 projects selected as part of UCR Healthy Campus. The projects, which are aimed at improving the health and quality of life on campus, were awarded grants of up to $1,000 by the Healthy Campus Advisory Committee. All faculty, staff...

Michael Pazzani, UCR’s vice chancellor for Research and Economic Development, plans to retire in April after more than six years in the role. In an email to the campus this month announcing Pazzani’s decision, Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox said Pazzani will leave with “an impressive legacy of an expanded research enterprise at UC Riverside.” Under...

UC Riverside has risen 18 spots in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of best online engineering programs in the country. In the 2019 rankings released last week, the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering’s online program was ranked No. 33, compared to No. 51 last year. The college saw the sixth-highest jump of any school in...

UCR ARTS is shining a spotlight on photography in the Inland Empire with the “In the Sunshine of Neglect” exhibition on display at the California Museum of Photography and the Riverside Art Museum. Opening night on Saturday, Jan. 19, drew a large crowd to downtown Riverside to see 194 pieces by 54 photographers, including Kim Abeles, Ansel Adams...

UC Riverside faculty, staff and students began getting the notices in recent weeks: Multifactor authentication is coming to the campus. So, what exactly is it and what does it mean for you? Multifactor authentication, or MFA, is an enhanced cybersecurity measure that all who access UCR’s computer applications will need to act on by April. “If you...

UC Riverside’s Small Business Development Center has received a $25,000 donation from MUFG Union Bank Foundation in support of its programs aiding technology entrepreneurs. The business center, which opened in downtown Riverside in April, is part of the Entrepreneurial Proof of Concept and Innovation Center, or Riverside EPIC, which provides...

UC Riverside is celebrating the completion of the $150 million Multidisciplinary Research Building, or MRB, which will provide an innovative and collaborative approach to conducting research. Campus leaders held a dedication ceremony Friday for the five-story, 179,000-square-foot building that now stands as the largest and most sophisticated...