Get ready for the 10-Minute Time Shift! Beginning fall quarter 2019, UCR classes will start and end 10 minutes earlier. This means all classes will start on the hour or half hour and your academic day will start and end 10 minutes earlier too. For example, an 8:10–9:00 class will change to 8:00–8:50. This adjustment...
Around 1,000 college-bound students from across the Inland Empire will descend on UC Riverside as part of the first College Signing Day on the West Coast.
Eleven University of California, Riverside students received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research fellowship, the preeminent award program recognizing NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students pursuing research-based graduate and doctoral degrees at accredited institutions in the United States. UCR’s Graduate Research fellows were among 2,000 awardees chosen from more than 12,000 applicants...
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. ( www.ucr.edu) – A veteran administrator with a background in innovative teaching methods and an affinity for the work of the University Innovation Alliance has been named to lead UC Riverside’s Office of Undergraduate Education. Jennifer Brown will join UCR on August 1 as vice provost and dean of Undergraduate Education. She comes...
Renata Koontz and Nicholas Pham are this year’s UCR Goldwater Scholars. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Two University of California, Riverside undergraduates — one studying physics and the other engineering and applied physics — have each won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious and competitive undergraduate STEM awards. UCR, which is one of...
Jan. 11 marked many firsts for the H1GLANDER First-Generation Project, a UCR initiative to increase awareness of first-generation issues and experiences. The inaugural “1/11 First-Gen Talks,” which took place in the new Rivera Library teaching and learning center, introduced a series of panels and community discussions around first-generation issues that included students, faculty, and staff...
Welcome to The Top! In this edition of The Top, we present the three different spaces that UC Riverside has created with one solid intention: support student success. The Veterans Resource Center, the Teaching and Learning Center, and the R’Pantry all have new spaces and held open house events last week. Here is a roundup...
RIVERSIDE, Calif.– UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox announced today the appointment of Cynthia K. Larive as provost and executive vice chancellor, effective Nov. 1. Professor Larive has served in the role on an interim basis since Feb. 21, 2017. A respected scholar of bioanalytical chemistry, Larive joined the UCR faculty in 2005. She brings...
The annual Outstanding Staff Awards recognized 18 staff member nominees - and eight award recipients - during a reception at the chancellor's residence. On June 12, UCR Staff Assembly organized the annual event, meant to applaud the contributions employees make on a daily basis within their respective departments. "It's an honor to have a chance...
Fourteen students at the University of California, Riverside, have been honored with prestigious national awards during the 2016-2017 academic year. "I am very proud of the accomplishments that UCR students are making at the national and international level," said Gladis Herrera-Berkowitz, the director of Student Success Programs in the Office of Undergraduate Education. "A goal...
The University of California Riverside’s Office of Undergraduate Education has received a $50,000 grant to ramp up community-engaged learning opportunities for undergraduate students. The funds will help match students with community service opportunities related to their coursework. The award, called a Collaborative Opportunity Grant, is from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, or APLU...
On Thursday, June 8, UC Riverside officially joined the UC-wide First-Gen Faculty campaign, meant to highlight and identify first-generation professors who can, in turn, serve as mentors for first-generation students. This appreciation event was held at the weekly Farmer’s Market by Hinderaker Hall. Faculty members who stopped by the First-Gen Faculty booth could pick up...
Fourteen UC Riverside students - eleven of whom completed, or will complete their undergraduate degrees at UCR - have been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFs).
UCR's reputation for consistently high educational outcomes for all students is founded on excellence in teaching, research, and service. That enterprise includes not only faculty members and students, but staff academic advisors, graduate assistants, and many others. The first "Celebration of Teaching" event at UC Riverside, organized by the Office of Undergraduate Education, brought together...
Dear UCR community, The Office of Undergraduate Education, in partnership with the UCR Academy of Distinguished Teachers, sponsors two teaching awards each year: The Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching (JET) Award and the Innovative Teaching Award. The (JET) award recognizes superior teaching at the Assistant Professor level and is supported by funds from the "Chancellorial...
Phong Au-Hong, a junior in the entomology department at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded one of 20 spots in the Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute (PPIA JSI) at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. Each year, PPIA awards high-potential undergraduate students from universities across the country to participate in an...
The University of California, Riverside, Office of Undergraduate Education, and Graduate Division, announced that the Fulbright U.S. Student Program National Selection Committee has recognized 11 UCR students as semi-finalists for a Fulbright fellowship. This is a record for the university. Fulbright is the leading international education exchange program. Each year, Fulbright funds nearly 2,000 U.S...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) - UC Riverside is one of a handful of comprehensive universities that have achieved near parity in graduation rates across racial, socio-economic, and gender boundaries. That success has now been recognized by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), which represents 236 public and land-grant institutions in the U.S., Mexico, and...
Cindy Larive understands first hand what students need to succeed. She is the first in her family to attend college and is the daughter of a South Dakota gold mine worker with a third grade education. Both of her parents understood though, that school was the key to greater opportunities. At UCR Larive is hard...
