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UCR brings back Pow Wow Princess tradition

After a 22-year hiatus, Katianna Warren is the second princess since the competition was reinstated in 2017.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | March 17, 2019 | Students

Irvin Rosales outside of UCR's Arts building.

Staying on beat

Irvin Rosales balances school, two jobs, and a music-industry internship.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | March 12, 2019 | Students

Alumna brings music history to life for the next generation

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has a new director of curatorial affairs: UCR’s Nwaka Onwusa ’08

By Tess Eyrich | February 27, 2019 | Students

UCR student researcher takes smoking personally

You don’t want Careen Khachatoorian for a sister. Not if you smoke, you don’t. Careen’s older brother is trying to conceive a child with his partner. A typical text to her smoker-brother includes a link to a sins-of-smoking article, and reads like this: “See? Pregnant mothers have a greater chance of delivering a child with ADHD if they are exposed...

By J.D. Warren | February 21, 2019 | Students, Science / Technology

Grad Slam spotlights emerging UCR scholars and scientists

The annual competition returns to UC Riverside’s Culver Center on March 4 and Palm Desert Center on April 4

By Tess Eyrich | February 15, 2019 | Students

'Most women don't use a mic'

Courtney Baugh is planning her vegetable garden. Green beans, beets, definitely cucumbers. And she’d like to plant an orange tree, and an apple tree — the kind that yield fruit the moment they’re planted. She’s also going to install an 8-foot privacy fence in her back yard, to keep out the robbers. Robbers are a serious problem in the world of SIMS...

By J.D. Warren | January 23, 2019 | Students

Brandy Renee Taylor (UCR/Sandra Baltazar Martínez)

From foster care to a free MBA

“I have been through a few challenges in my life, but with the support of this school and Guardian Scholars, I have achieved more than I ever thought I would.” - Brandy Renee Taylor

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | December 19, 2018 | Students

Physics undergraduate student headed to CERN

Sergio Garcia will do research during the winter quarter on a particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider

By Iqbal Pittalwala | December 12, 2018 | Students, Science / Technology

Alejandro Quiñones, 22, uses mathematical modeling to analyze cell division in maize.

Tiny desk, huge accomplishments – and his own bed

The bedroom he shared with his parents and three siblings included a bunk bed, a queen bed, two wardrobes, and a narrow wooden table that served as his desk. That bedroom was where Alejandro Quiñones lived through middle school and high school with his family. Quiñones, 21, now a senior biology and pre-med major at UC Riverside, focused on school –...

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | November 19, 2018 | Students

Aubree Brown, 3, pretend playing at UC Riverside.

Grant will cover childcare costs for student parents at UCR

The University of California, Riverside’s Early Childhood Services center received a four-year grant from the United States Department of Education to provide low income undergraduate students with childcare assistance. The reauthorized $1.4 million grant will give these student parents a financial breather while they balance parenting and college...

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | November 6, 2018 | Students

This former cop wants to build trust between communities and police

Fulbright Scholar Roberto Rivera looks to Jamaica as a model of restorative justice

By Tess Eyrich | November 1, 2018 | Students

Group of Guardian Scholars at a table celebrating

Celebrating a decade of support for UCR Guardian Scholars

A decade ago, Tuppett Yates, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, launched the Guardian Scholars Program in the hopes of creating a support system for students who grew up in foster care. Beginning with four students who were provided $500 scholarships during the 2008-2009 academic year, the Guardian Scholars...

By Imran Ghori | October 30, 2018 | Students