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A career forged by life experiences
Jamal J. Myrick, African Student Programs director, discusses his educational journey, parenting, and more.
Mellon Foundation awards $2.9 million for ‘Latinx Futures’
The grant will support programs within UCR’s new Center for Latino and Latin American Studies and Research, set to launch February 2021.
First-year students: Making ‘the best out of this situation’
Resident advisors are creating ways to remain virtually connected while building a sense of community with first-year students in campus housing.
A different type of holiday party for Guardian Scholars
The program works to make the holidays special for foster youth, despite the pandemic’s challenges.
How UCR Library’s contact-free curbside delivery works
Students, faculty, and staff can still access books and materials.
Capturing daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic
UCR community’s photos, letters, and event information to be included in new library collection.
Virtual program links students around the globe
UC Riverside’s International Affairs shifted into a nearly 24/7 operation earlier this year, especially in its efforts to recruit new international students. The team spent thousands of hours redesigning programs for virtual platforms — all made accessible to students in the United States and around the world. One such new...
UC Riverside joins campuses to pilot a smartphone app that aims to limit spread of COVID-19
A program to test a smartphone-based COVID-19 exposure notification system will expand to an additional five University of California campus locations, including UC Riverside, as a result of success from an initial deployment earlier this fall at two UC campuses. The program is a joint effort between the UCs and...
Tomás Rivera Conference continues online
Weekly programs surrounding Latino/a literature, identities, race, and more, run through early November.
Student services – virtual style
UCR welcomes students with an assortment of digital programming and support services.
UCR offers the first Cahuilla language course in UC system
Students in the four-class series also study Cahuilla society and culture.
How UCR became a national leader in enrolling Chicanx/Latinx students
The population’s growth over the last half century has been driven by students
Summer internships — from home
These UCR students aren’t letting a pandemic stop their personal and professional development.
Faculty member pens book to help researchers work ‘Online, Offline, and In Between’
Work includes field notes and observations of in-person and virtual research.
University Extension receives federal grant to help train the local labor force
The United States Department of Labor has awarded nearly $1 million to UC Riverside’s University Extension to help train the Southern California’s labor force. The four-year grant known as “Apprenticeship: Closing the Skills Gap” will allow the University Extension to work with businesses in Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange and Los...
A look at graduation celebrations — at home
Photos show how two students commemorated their undergraduate journeys.
Graduation with a global perspective
An international education was key for these UCR students’ futures.
Professor creates artist residency for veterans and COVID-19 frontline workers
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Charles Evered, a professor of playwriting at the University of California, Riverside, began to think about how he could help. He fell back on what he knows: supporting artists. His nonprofit organization, the Evered House, honors his late father, Charles J. Evered, a World War...
Three DACA students react to Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA in a 5-to-4 decision on Thursday, June 18.
Here are the many ways UCR is helping students right now
A list of available resources during this time of uncertainty.