In fall 2011, 1,093 students in 10 courses were considered to be at-risk for failing their course. 31.6% of at-risk students attended a meeting with a Peer Educator. Students who attended a Peer Educator meeting had similar final grades to students who did not attend a Peer Educator meeting and did not use other ARC...

A trio of University of California, Riverside graduates will be spending a year in Sacramento after having been named to the prestigious Capital Fellows Program for 2012-13. Israel Landa was named to the Jesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellowship Program. A resident of Riverside who came to UCR via Riverside Community College, he will receive his...

Pogu, a 19-year-old pre-business student from Corona who just concluded her first year at UCR, will be competing with the United States Women's Inline Hockey World Team as they compete at the International Roller Sports Federation Inline Hockey World Championships in Bucaramanga, Colombia. A defenseman, she is one seven Californians on the team and one...

Undergraduate student participation in research opportunities and creative activities are valuable experiences for students interested in gaining a deeper understanding of subject matter. These activities leverage one of the key strengths of research universities, the faculty's commitment to research. Moreover, students who participate in undergraduate research and creative activities have higher GPAs and higher aspirations...

James Tedjasaputra is a senior graduating in June 2012 with a BA in Business Economics. His submission was entitled "Motivation Through Legislation" and outlined his experience as an intern in Washington, DC at the Office of Senator Barbara Boxer. He participated in the UCDC program in Winter 2012. "Living and working in Washington submerged me...

Freddy Lopez is a third year Ethnic Studies student with a minor in Creative Writing, who was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the Donald A. Strauss Foundation . The Foundation annually awards $10,000 scholarships to no fewer than 14 California college juniors who demonstrate commitment to public service. Freddy's proposal, Art of the P.O.O.R...

Chancellor Timothy P. White and the Faculty of the University of California, Riverside invite you to attend the annual Honors Convocation on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at the University Theatre. Light refreshments and check-in will begin at 6:30PM and end at 7:30PM. Program begins at 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. More information can be found...

Whether they are situated in Riverside or as far away as Lyon, Honors students are always able to have a positive impact on their communities. This will certainly be the case when Honors student Reginald Arevalo will travel to France after being awarded the Dan Wise Memorial Scholarship. "Through this program and by living in...

The sixth annual Symposium is planned for Thursday and Friday, May 3 and 4, 2012 in the HUB. The submission of abstracts for the presentations will run from March 1, 2012 through April 2, 2012. Students in all disciplines "the arts, humanities, sciences, and engineering" present their faculty-mentored projects to audiences of peers, faculty and...

"Taking I-Learn to the Limit" refers to exploring the hidden possibilities of this powerful teaching and learning platform. Cognitive psychologist Curt Burgess has asked some of UCR's most creative instructors to produce 10-minute mini-demonstrations of ways to use I-Learn to improve teaching practice without adding time to the day. David Biggs (History) will show how...

A podcast with Vice Provost Steven Brint on improving undergraduate education in research universities will be posted on the *Learning Matters* website this week. *Learning Matters* is an educational media organization led by John Merrow, one of the leading educational journalists in the country and chief educational reporter for the PBS New Hour with Jim...

Applicants must attend a two-hour application workshop that will be scheduled at various times in February 2012. (University Honors students enrolled in HNPG 150 or HNPG 151 are exempt from this requirement.) More information can be found at the Chancellor's Research Fellowship Website

Howard H "Tim" Hays, former owner and publisher of The Press-Enterprise newspaper, set up a charitable trust more than 20 years ago. He directed that upon his death, the remaining funds would be delivered to UC Riverside to fund an endowed chair in the University Honors program. This nationally-respected journalist spent 51 years at the...

Encouraging and promoting undergraduate research and creative activity projects is the goal of the new Chancellor's Research Fellowship (CRF) program at the University of California, Riverside. Sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Education at UCR, the program will award up to 12 fellowships to undergraduate students in amounts as much as $5,000 for the 2012-13...

The Office of Undergraduate Education will be co-hosting the Clark Kerr lecture at UC Riverside on February 14. The lecture, "Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions," will be given by Neil Smelser, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Smelser's lecture will explore the factors contributing to the current crisis in public...

The first meeting of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Colloquium in 2012 will explore methods to "make the large classroom small." Professor Goldberry Long of the Department of Creative Writing, and Leo Schouest, a learning and technology expert in the Office of Computing and Communications, will be describing and demonstrating techniques for using the...

Steven Brint succeeds David Fairris, who is returning to full-time duties on the faculty after four years of outstanding service as Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education. We would like to thank David Fairris for his substantial leadership contributions, including successful stewardship of UCR's WASC reaccreditation, during a time of significant growth and change on this...