Highlanders enjoyed a performance by rapper Flo Rida and a host of other festivities as part of UC Riverside’s Homecoming 2024. Performing before a packed crowd on Saturday, Nov. 2, Flo Rida encouraged Highlanders to get “Low” and spread “Good Feelings” with an energetic set that included those and other signatures hits. Wearing a UCR jersey at one...
With the help of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Engaged Learning, or CUREL, recent graduates of UC Riverside racked up over $300,000 worth of funding for the 2024-25 academic year to pursue their studies and research.
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...
UC Riverside returned to the Riverside Festival of Lights this holiday season offering treats and photo ops with Scotty the Bear. More than 570 visitors stopped by the “Bold Hearts, Brilliant Minds” booth on UCR Night at the Festival of Lights on Friday, Dec. 8. Festival goers, including students and alumni, received UCR-branded cookies, light-up...
Geoffrey “Jeff” Pack believes UC Riverside has an important story to tell. It’s one that includes alumni like himself, whose 30-year career as a naval officer was shaped by his time at the campus. And it’s a story about UCR’s continued role in driving the economy of the Inland Empire. Pack ’78 is now in a position to tell that story in a more...
The UC Riverside Alumni Association has welcomed two new members to its board of directors. Anthony Bonales ’18 and Sharon Dalmage ’04 joined the board for two-year terms on July 1. The board is made up of volunteers who establish association policy, review programs, and provide feedback and suggestions to the university administration. Bonales, a...
