RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) - Brandon Tran ('16) and Spencer Salazar ('15) from the University of California, Riverside have been named Highly Commended entrants in the Undergraduate Awards 2015. "I feel blessed to have had my paper reach the highly commended category on an international level," said Salazar in response to the distinction. The Undergraduate Awards...

The first event in the inaugural year of the Global Issues Forum will provide important context for ever-growing conversations about immigration, comparing immigration policy in the US and Europe. The panelists include UCR's own Karthick Ramakrishnan; Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York and co-author of the book Strangers...

Bernie Greene, Deputy Consul General of the British Consul will give a presentation on the Marshall Scholarship to UCR students on June 4, 2015. For questions please contact Gladis Herrera-Berkowitz, Director of Student Success Programs, gladis@ucr.edu.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Undergraduates at the University of California, Riverside are on a success roll. First, two students won Goldwater Scholarships, announced last month. Now three undergraduate students have been named winners of prestigious scholarships from the Donald A. Strauss Foundation. Highly competitive, the Strauss Scholarship is a public service scholarship given to university students...

For the fourth year in a row UCR will be represented in the CORO Fellowship Program. Coro trains ethical, diverse civic leaders nationwide. Over 10,000 Coro alumni currently serve as leaders in local, regional and national/global businesses, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies and elected public office. This year two students have been selected to participate in...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded UE $284,000 to administer projects on campus related to the University Innovations Alliance (UIA). UIA is a collaboration of 11 large public universities to improve graduation rates, particularly among low-income students. UIA has chosen predictive analytics as the first scale project. Scale projects involve learning from institutions...

In conjunction with Provost Paul D'Anieri and UCR's award-winning Model UN Club, UE will be launching a Global Issues Forum (GIF) in Fall. As UCR becomes a more international institution, sending and receiving international visitors, UE has decided to contribute to undergraduates' knowledge about current events and issues in the world. Among the topics that...

The ECMC Foundation has awarded UE a $266,000 grant to enhance its Summer Bridge program. Summer Bridge allows students to take courses and an introductory to college life course prior to fall matriculation, with an option to live in the residence halls. The ECMC grant will allow the Academic Resources Center to add another course...

During Week 1 of Spring quarter, eleven UCR undergraduate students swallowed their nerves and stepped in front of their own classes with lesson plans and materials ready. These students worked with faculty mentors during the fall and winter quarters to develop their own original syllabus to offer to other undergraduates as part of the R"Course...

Undergraduate Education has launched a new major-specific academic internship program, where students are provided the opportunity to be placed in an internship relating to their major, and enroll in a course that links the internship with academic work. These courses have between 12-20 students and include site visits, speaker series, and the opportunity for students...

Joey Mavity has been awarded the University Innovation Alliance Fellowship position for UC Riverside beginning February 6, 2015. UC Riverside is committed to improving the 4-year graduation rate for all students and as an ethnic, economically, and ideologically diverse campus is pleased to work with other major universities to help their graduation rates, as well...

The Undergraduate Research Portal is a one-stop shop for students to find and participate in faculty-mentored research, scholarship, and creative activities. UCR offers research opportunities to all undergraduates, including freshmen, sophomores, and transfer students. Students can get connected to faculty in arts, business, engineering, humanities, and sciences. Opportunities are available for course credit, paid and...

Two UCR students have been awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. This is a very prestigious national award. Per the Goldwater press release "Goldwater Scholars have very impressive academic qualifications that have garnered the attention of prestigious post-graduate fellowship programs. Recent Goldwater Scholars have been awarded 86 Rhodes Scholarships, 123 Marshall Awards, 123 Churchill Scholarships, and...

The Chancellor's Research Fellowship is now accepting applications for AY 2015-2016. Students involved in faculty mentored research, scholarly, or creative work are encouraged to review the CRF Fellowship Application Guidelines and consult their faculty mentor to discuss a research proposal idea. The deadline to submit the application is April 13, 2015 at 5:00 pm. For...

The UCR Undergraduate Research Journal is an interdisciplinary publication that celebrates undergraduate research from students in the Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE), College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS), College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS), and the School of Business Administration (SOBA). Interested students are encouraged to visit the Journal website to review...

The campus community is invited to the 9th Annual Symposium for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity. The symposium highlights undergraduate research conducted by students in the Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE), College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS), College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS), and the School of Business Administration (SOBA). Students...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The University of California, Riverside has been awarded a $500,000 grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a research and mentoring program for undergraduates aimed at increasing diversity among faculty in American universities. The program, The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF), to which institutions are invited by the foundation to...

Assistant Director of the Academic Resources Center (ARC) Rena Burton will be presenting research she conducted with Assistant Professor of Education Eddie Comeau at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in April. The title of her presentation is: "Understanding Division I College Athlete STEM Persistence." AERA is the national organization of...

In an ongoing effort to develop anticancer therapeutics that might improve upon the clinically used drug cisplatin (a platinum-based compound), gold-based compounds have been widely investigated by numerous research groups. Our lab has previously found that the organic component of the gold complex can exhibit anticancer activity that is often better than the parent gold...

The report found that 22% of enrolled undergraduates participated in faculty-mentored research and creative activities in AY2012-13. The majority of students participated through research courses and later in their academic careers (i.e., juniors and seniors). Female and underrepresented minority (URM) students participated in undergraduate research at largely the same proportion as their campus enrollment. The...