The UCR Undergraduate Research Journal was unveiled on June 7, 2013, at an affair attended by interim Chancellor Jane Close Conoley and various other UCR faculty, administrators, staff and undergraduate students. We want to congratulate the student authors and their faculty mentors, and a major kudos to the Student Editorial Board (pictured): Leila Magistrado (Editor-in-Chief)...

It is with great pleasure to announce the 2013-2014 Chancellor Research Fellows! These 12 undergraduate students are about to embark on a one year research opportunity. The selection process was highly competitive with applications received from 44 undergraduate students in disciplines from across the campus. We congratulate the following students: Ariana Contreras (faculty mentor: Darrel...

Jacqueline Balderrama, Creative Writing Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize First Place Recipient - $500 Award This UC-wide contest is open to undergraduate students. Submissions are reviewed by members of the UCSC faculty; three poems from the total entries are forwarded to the UC-wide review committee for final selection. Jaqueline Balderrama completed her bachelor's degree in...

The term "flipped classroom" has come into academic discourse to describe classrooms in which professors, instead of lecturing, expect their students to listen to lectures online before class, and to spend class time discussing assigned texts or working on course-related problems. A more conventional "flipped classroom" could be just to expect students to have read...

Congratulations to the winners for best poster and best oral presentation at this year's UCR Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Symposium! Ashwin Sharma, Biology undergraduate student, has won the Best Poster Presentation award for the poster entitled "Effects of Paternal Condition on Immune Response in Male California Mice". He is mentored by Professor Wendy...

UE announced today that it would fund four professors to develop a leadership pathway program. The pathway concept identifies three linked courses that students can take in an area that crosscuts conventional departmental lines and is widely recognized as important to society. The pathway concept also includes the requirement that students participate in a related...

Mary Nguyen, a junior in Chemistry and a University Honors student at UC Riverside, has been selected as a 2013 Goldwater Scholarship Recipient. The Goldwater Scholarship provides $7500 for juniors to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering, and to foster excellence in those fields. In interviewing Mary for...

The Office of Undergraduate Education announces the release of the Undergraduate Research Tracking Report. The report shows that nearly 15 percent of UCR undergraduates participated in a faculty mentored undergraduate research or creative activity during the academic year 2011-12. The report tracks three types of participation: (1) through sponsored programs, such as the Chancellor's Research...

Improvements You Can Make Without Spending More Time Marking Papers. The colloquium will feature tools that instructors can use in one half of one class period to help students improve their writing. It will also discuss resources available through course workshops and through the Academic Resources Center's Writing Support Program. With Kathleen Moore, Juliette Levy...

Vice Provost Steven Brint will lecture at the University of Oslo in Norway, March 18 and 19. Brint will be speaking on engaging academically disengaged student populations and on the form of knowledge exchanges between institutional sectors. He will also be participating in meetings with educational researchers working on Oslo-based topics.

On December 10-11, Vice Provost Steven Brint gave a paper at a conference of university rectors and Ministry of Education officials in Santiago, Chile. Brint was part of a team of international experts invited by the Chilean government to help with the reorganization of the higher education sector in Chile. View of Vice Provost Brint's...

Got MOOC? A Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Colloquium featuring Juliette Levy (History) and Keith Williams (UCOP) Topics will include: What are Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs)? Online education beyond MOOCs. The reinvention of education for the masses. Quality control in online education and face-to-face instruction. The online horizon: Will brick-and-mortar campuses become obsolete? Wednesday...

On October 22nd 275 University Honors students gathered to view the 3rd presidential debate between President Obama and Governor Romney as part of the University Honors Colloquia Series. This event was moderated by Dr. Tom Perring, Honors Faculty Director and Associate Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education and featured a pre-debate discussion led by Dr. Martin Johnson...

Allison M. Cantwell and Anthony Roberts have published a report on the academic interests and progress of international students at UCR. The report shows that international students who attended UCR between 2002 and 2010 opted to study business more than any other major, followed by engineering. They performed well in math-based courses, but often struggled...

UE is happy to welcome three new interns this fall. Two new interns are working with the Information Technology group under the direction of Efren Gomez. Keval Shah is a 3rd year student in applied mathematics with an emphasis in economics and a minor in computer science. Tom Cam Tran is a 3rd year student...

Over the last six months, UE has been working on assessment of learning outcomes in general education. The general education assessment has three parts. Under the direction of Allison Cantwell, UE has conducted an assessment of entry-level writing, comparing student essays at the beginning of English composition courses with those produced at the end of...

Vice Provost Steven Brint will be presenting work nationally and internationally over the next three months. Brint will be at UC-Berkeley on Oct. 9 to discuss reforms of undergraduate education in the United States with a group of international higher education leaders gathered for an international symposium on the student experience in research universities. Brint...

UE is pleased to announce a new competition for instructional innovation grants. Grants up to $5,000 are available. Successful proposals must support instructional enhancements to the educational experience of UC Riverside undergraduates. These can include, for example, minor course revisions; purchase of supplies of a specialized nature; purchase of minor pieces of equipment; development, rental...

Veronique Rorive has been appointed Director of Educational Initiatives as of August 6, 2012. Veronique will work on development of the Office of Undergraduate Research, focusing first on a system for tracking the amount and types of undergraduate research on campus. She will also contribute to UE's pursuit of grant opportunities that can benefit UCR...

The 12 UCR undergraduate recipients of the inaugural 2012 Chancellor's Research Fellows were announced in June 2012. This new program is to be an annual competition designed to enhance and encourage the development of faculty mentored research and creative activity among our undergraduate student population, and will provide up to $5,000 to support such faculty-mentored...