UC Riverside’s Center for Community Solutions will survey 1,000 adults in Riverside and San Bernardino counties to inform strategies to improve life in the Inland Empire, thanks to a grant from the IEHP Foundation, an Inland Empire health advocacy nonprofit. Residents will be asked about their experiences with nutrition, housing...

UC Riverside is addressing California’s teacher shortage while reducing the time and money it takes for aspiring educators to become state-certified teachers. A new program allows undergraduates to earn both a bachelor’s degree and a teaching credential in four years, eliminating the need for a separate fifth year of teacher...

More than 150 years after the end of slavery and a generation after Civil Rights reforms, a new study finds that places designated as “sundown towns” in the past are more racist today. The study was led by UC Riverside psychology professor Jimmy Calanchini, who researches intergroup bias. A sundown...

Expert answers questions pertinent to the possible exposure to pneumonic plague

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has selected a geothermal energy project led by engineers at the University of California, Irvine to move forward to a second phase that will span three years. The multi-agent AI expert for subsurface reasoning and optimization initiative brings together researchers from a...

Stigma-linked social distance discourages care, while a sense of “mattering” may encourage treatment

Award provides a five-year, $1.35 million grant to explore collective quantum behavior in 2D materials

Research explores vaping prevention and tobacco-cannabis use

A new UCR ARTS exhibition showcases nearly four decades of work from late photographer Douglas McCulloh. “Dispatches: The Photography of Douglas McCulloh, 1990-2025” opened on September 12 at UCR ARTS’ California Museum of Photography, or CMP, and will be on view until December 20. The exhibition brings together all his...

Scientists have helped solve a longstanding mystery about how Earth remained habitable after oxygen first accumulated in its atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago.

UC Riverside has opened a major new instructional building, expanding classroom, lab, and studio space for science and the performing arts. The four-story, 100,700-square-foot Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Facility, or UTLF, was completed over the summer and held its first classes with the start of the fall quarter on Sept...

A nearby star system with two suns could potentially support an Earth-sized planet in a region where liquid water could exist, according to a new paper examining the dynamics of the system.

With a global ocean of liquid water below a thick crust of ice, Saturn’s moon Enceladus is one of the most promising places to search for life beyond Earth. A new study suggests the moon itself may aid in that search by making some ocean compounds easier for future spacecraft...

Two pioneering figures in Chicano cinema and literature will discuss their work and answer questions during the 38th annual Tomás Rivera Conference at the University of California, Riverside. Luis Valdez wrote and directed “ Zoot Suit” (1978), the first Chicano play produced on Broadway, as well as the 1981 film...

UC Riverside study offers new hope for pollinator protection

UC Riverside computer scientists ​found that AI model confidence and correctness can arise from different internal features, a discovery that could help build more reliable AI models. ​

UC Riverside has received a $1.2 million Foster Youth Outreach Program grant from the University of California Office of the President to improve college accessibility and services for foster care youth. The gift will support UCR’s Office of Foster Youth Support Services and fund two initiatives aimed at helping students...

UC Riverside-led study shows how a specific brain protein causes damage during long-term HIV infection

U.S. News & World Report has again named UC Riverside the No. 1 university in the nation for social mobility. UCR tied for the top social mobility ranking with Florida International University. This is the eighth year that U.S. News has featured a breakout category for social mobility. UCR has...

All UC Riverside Highlanders are invited to celebrate the start of our 2026-27 academic year with a ton of fun and informative events hosted by various campus partners.