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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May is AAPI Heritage Month, and UCR has many AAPI-focused events for you to get involved in.
Visit the Asian Pacific Student Programs' website or follow them on Instagram.
Announcements
🛴 Scooters will no longer be permitted inside libraries beginning summer quarter.
📵 UCRPD does not enforce immigration law and does not participate in immigration enforcement efforts. Learn about the latest phone scam and how to report it.
🔍 If you have recently misplaced an item, check the online Lost Returns Log and claim your items at UCPD (near Lot 24). Found items can be returned to UCPD or the HUB kiosk.
🚉 Metrolink is offering UCR students free rides with its Student Adventure Pass until June 30, 2025. Explore fun destinations or get a ride to/from home, work, and school.
🚨 Ensure you’re prepared in the event of an emergency by downloading the new UCR Safe App.
⚠️ Get Naloxone/NARCAN training and receive a FREE opioid overdose safety kit, containing a pouch with two Naloxone nasal sprays, two fentanyl test strips, instructions, and an educational brochure.
🕵🏻♀️ Watch out for sketchy job offers in your texts and emails. Spot the scams and stick to Handshake for all legit job searches. Be aware and stay safe.
📍New Campus Map: Get around campus easier with features such as step-by-step directions and a category menu for different types of resources.
🚌 Get Free RTA Bus Rides w/ R'Card: Just swipe your R’Card for free bus rides on routes that directly connect UCR to many western Riverside County neighboring communities. Due to construction only routes 1 westbound, 16, and 204 are currently running.
🍕😷 Get Texts About Free Stuff on Campus: Join "Scotty's Last Call" on HighlanderLink and get notified via text or email when FREE food and health supplies are available.
🤖 How to Appropriately Use Artificial Intelligence: Discover tips on how to use new Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and OpenAI’s DALL-E appropriately in your academic work.
📢 Free Speech Resources: Student action is vital and this Campus Demonstrations video discusses how students can make the most of a demonstration and do so without infringing on anyone else’s rights.
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📄 Buscadores Grad School Support
If you are interested in graduate, medical, law school, or any other professional post-undergraduate opportunities, the Buscadores Program can assist you in developing critical application essays. Our "Where-to-Start" Workshop Series, "Ask-me-Anything" Writing Labs, and "1:1 Consultations" are both in-person and online.
Deadline: June 6
🌞 Summer Sessions
- UC undergrads only pay for eight units, anything beyond that is tuition-free.
- Most students taking eight or more units are likely eligible for financial aid.
- Live on-campus during the summer and take advantage of daily housing rates.
- Out-of-state students pay the same lower in-state tuition during the summer.
- Virtual and in-person classes.
- With short class lengths, you’ll still have plenty of summer to enjoy.
Session A registration deadline: June 27
🧍🏻♀️🧍🏼🧍🏿♂️ Associated Students of UCR (ASUCR)
ASUCR is our student government in charge of representing the interests and needs of 22,000+ of UCR's undergraduates. Through the work of our student-elected officials and our hardworking volunteers, we advocate for students. ASUCR is focused on community-based services, programs, and events that engage and encourage students to unlock their full potential at their time here and beyond UCR.
🍴 Dining Advisory Committee
Shape the future of our campus dining services. Meetings take place the first Wednesday of each month at Glasgow Restaurant and offer free food.
- Dive into the delicious discussions of food forums and menu tastings
- Spice things up by suggesting service upgrades in our dining locations
- Act as focus groups on various topics and menu development
🎶 UCR Pipe Band
UCR's Pipe Band is recruiting student musicians year-round who play or want to learn to play the Great Highland Bagpipes or Scottish-style drumming.
🍎 CalFresh
CalFresh provides qualifying students with up to $250 a month to buy healthy, nutritious foods. These benefits can be used at various local grocery and convenience stores, most farmers markets, and Scotty's convenience stores.
🎓 Commencement for Graduating Seniors
- If you missed the "Intent to Participate" deadline, on May 16, contact commencement@ucr.edu for instructions on how you can still participate in your ceremony. (Specify you school/college.)
- Attend Senior Sendoff on May 21, where you can pick up Commencement tickets and enjoy seniors-only activities, like the Class of 2025 group photo.
- Take the Highlander Experience Survey by June 30.
- Purchase your caps, gowns, and regalia at the UCR Bookstore.
💰 3E Student Health Study
Participate in a paid student health study, 3E by School of Education, and earn up to $55 per study and an additional $5 per referral.
📕 Teach an R'Course
Undergrads are invited to design and teach a 1-unit class. Think of a unique topic, work with a faculty mentor to develop a course plan, submit the proposal for review, and prepare to teach fellow undergrads.
Deadlines:
- April 20 (for next year’s winter instruction)
- Oct. 20 (for next year’s spring instruction)
- Jan. 20 (for next year’s fall instruction)
✈️ Study Abroad
Join the 5,000-plus UC students who go abroad each year through the UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP).
Find easy and affordable ways to get a global education through programs to keep your options flexible and your credits easy to transfer. As a UCR student, you have this extensive network of participating UC education abroad opportunities at your disposal.
🌎 Sustainable Agricultural Projects
UCR has $1.5 million in grants from the California Department of Food and Agriculture to lead three interconnected projects aimed at transforming California’s specialty crop farming. The projects are open to students and focus on youth engagement, sustainable waste management, and advanced agricultural technologies.
Deadline: Ongoing
🤑 Behavioral Lab Studies (Paid)
Participate in research studies, conducted by School of Business faculty, about decision-making, consumer behavior, organizational behavior, negotiations, and group work. Compensation for in-person studies ranges from $5 to $100 in cash or Amazon gift cards, depending on the study you are chosen for. Sign up ASAP to be considered for this quarter's studies.
🤝 Browse Job Postings
Whether you are looking for summer gigs, internships, or part/full-time positions, the Career Center's online job search platform, Handshake, will get you connected with the right employer.
👩🏽🔬👨🔬 Find Undergrad Research
The uResearch Portal is a one-stop shop for students to find opportunities, across all disciplines, to participate in faculty-mentored research, scholarship, and creative activities.
👥 Join/Start Student Organizations
HighlanderLink is a searchable database of all of our 450+ student organizations. Categories include: Academic/Professional/Honor Organizations; Arts and Expressions; Cultural; Fraternity/Sorority; Action & Awareness; Recreational; Service; Spiritual/Religious/Atheist, and others.
News
Student burro encounter wins R’Card photo contest
First-year business student Dennis Cha was selected as the winner of the 2025 R’Card photo contest...
Students apply AI in the classroom
Rich Yueh, an assistant professor of teaching in information systems, demonstrated how the campus is applying Google’s NotebookLM in innovative ways in a recent interview with Los Angeles-based KTLA 5’s tech reporter Rich DeMuro...”
SOE unveils new mural featuring Pops Peterson’s “Walk With Her”
The artwork reinterprets Norman Rockwell’s iconic 1964 painting, “The Problem We All Live With,” which depicts Ruby Bridges, one of the first Black students to integrate into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana...
UCR launches site to match students with scholarships
UCR recently launched Scholarship Universe, a platform that analyzes a student’s academic history and interests to match them with relevant awards....
Highlander Pride
Women's Resource Center Student
"My experience as a Highlander on campus has been better than I ever expected where I've had the opportunity to get involved in the most supportive environment to grow as a student as well as contribute to the well-being of others. During my time at the WRC, I've participated in our various committees to determine students' needs and to find creative ways to support, educate, and connect students to build a strong and loving community. It has been an amazing two years working side-by-side with numerous departments on campus and to be a part of the impactful work at our center."
Maoko "Alexia" Chan-Fujii | Business Admin & Sociology | Class of 2025
Women's Resource Center Staff
"As a Program Coordinator at the Woman’s Resource Center, I am able to work with our amazing student staff and interns to organize events to provide resources, education, and support for all students, regardless of gender, but especially for the women on campus. I’ve seen how much the center has grown since my time as an undergraduate student at UCR and I am so proud of all the work that we’ve been able to do to create an inclusive and welcoming space on campus."
Cynthia Hernandez | Program Coordinator, UCR Women's Resource Center
Academic Calendar
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