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...

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...

UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox announced Monday that Gerry Bomotti, chief financial officer and vice chancellor for Planning and Budget, will take on the expanded duties of vice chancellor for Business and Administrative Services. The announcement caps a months-long search to fill the position following the retirement of Ron Coley, who...

Faculty, students, and staff in the UCR School of Medicine distributed care packages and hygiene kits on Dec. 19, 2018, to more than 100 people in severe need in the City of Riverside. The kits, assembled earlier that month by more than 40 faculty, students, and staff, included sweatshirts, water bottles, warm socks, and hygiene kits. The effort...

UC Riverside is looking to formalize its partnership with the Palm Desert-based California Indian Nations College, or CINC, which just completed its first quarter of instruction. The tribal community college launched in the fall with three classes at UCR’s Palm Desert Center offered through UCR Extension. Two classes are planned for the spring. The...

UC Riverside ranked No. 16 among the nation’s most environmentally friendly campuses in an international survey released this week. The campus was No. 145 in the overall GreenMetric World University Rankings 2018, conducted by Universitas Indonesia. UC Riverside was one of 719 universities from 81 countries that took part in the annual rankings...

R’Pantry is in better shape as it stocks up for the winter thanks to a successful food donation drive and fundraising effort. The program, which provides food and hygiene products to students in need, completed its first formal donation drive earlier this month with 13 campus departments collecting a variety of goods. The Giving Tuesday campaign in...

UC Riverside will launch a major student housing expansion Monday, Dec. 17, with construction beginning on the Dundee Residence Hall and Glasgow Dining Project. The project will add 820 beds and an 830-seat dining area to meet growing student housing needs. The buildings are scheduled to be completed by fall 2020. Fencing will start to go up around...

Looking for something to do on campus or do you have an event to promote? UC Riverside’s events calendar is the place to go for both. The online events calendar, which launched in February, is a central hub listing UC Riverside activities of all types, from lectures to concerts to games. As use of the new platform continues to grow, here’s what to...

Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox urged the campus community to envision what UC Riverside will look like at its centennial birthday in 2054 at a town hall meeting Thursday, Dec. 6 at the HUB. With the campus gearing up for its next strategic plan, Wilcox told about 300 faculty, staff, and students that they should think long term about the university’s...

UC Riverside celebrated 50 years of conflict resolution and advocacy for fairness by the Office of the Ombuds this week with four of the seven people who have served as ombudsperson reflecting on their work over the decades. The campus was one of the first in North America to create such a position. In November 1968, then-Chancellor Ivan Hinderaker...

The email and text message alerts can sound alarming at first: A robbery near campus. A report of a shooter that turned out to be a hoax. Those are a few of the messages sent to all UC Riverside faculty members, students, and staff employees in recent months by the UC Riverside Police Department. Use of text messaging and email has led some to...

Professors of anthropology and computer science join this year’s class of 416 fellows

Eleven researchers at the University of California, Riverside, are among 4,058 individuals included on the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by Clarivate Analytics, which was previously part of Thomson Reuters. The list includes the most frequently cited researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences, and recognizes...

Sang-Hee Lee, a UC Riverside professor of anthropology, has won the 2018 W. W. Howells Book Award from the American Anthropological Association for her new book “Close Encounters with Humankind.” Lee was presented with the award at the association’s annual meeting in San Jose at a ceremony held Nov. 16. The award, from the Biological Anthropology...

Thomas Kuhlman, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy who came to UC Riverside from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in July 2018, is the lead author on a study that attempts to explain how advanced life may have emerged billions of years ago. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...