Students | News

‘Rocky’ in Riverside?

UCR alums and students deliver a one-two punch to help at-risk youth through Raincross Boxing Academy.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | February 18, 2020 | Students

Three of the four co-founders of R'Grad Peer Support Group at UC Riverside. (UCR)

Graduate students create mental health support network

R’Grad Peer Support Group meets weekly and is designed to be a nonclinical outlet.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | February 3, 2020 | Students

Student is leading a campaign at UCR to get more of his classmates to the polls.

Why voting is important

A UC Riverside student leads voter registration campaign to get classmates to the polls.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | January 15, 2020 | Students

Health Queers club members. (UCR/Sandra Baltazar Martínez)

Queer students interested in health? There’s a club for you

Health Queers is now one of more than 450 campus student organizations.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | December 9, 2019 | Students

She sees dead people

History doctoral student Alyse Yeargan studies photographs of the deceased to understand how and why we grieve

By Tess Eyrich | December 6, 2019 | Arts / Culture, Students

Here’s how UC Riverside is preparing for the 2020 census

UCR staffers, students are ramping up efforts to ensure a complete count in the Inland Empire and beyond

By Tess Eyrich | October 28, 2019 | Social Science / Education, Students, University

Beyond Brilliant: Katherine Maldonado

Last summer, Katherine Maldonado, a first-generation graduate student at the University of California, Riverside, became one of 133 recipients nationally of a 2019 Ford Foundation Fellowship . Maldonado, a UCLA graduate, is now working toward her doctorate in sociology, and her $72,000 Ford Foundation award will support her studies over...

By Tess Eyrich | October 16, 2019 | Students, Beyond Brilliant

Beyond Brilliant: Regina Louise

Regina Louise has never known a “normal” childhood. Throughout her tumultuous youth, she was shuffled through over 30 foster homes and psychiatric facilities, all before the age of 18. Subjected to neglect, abuse, overmedication, and solitary confinement while in foster care, Louise’s trauma was compounded by a racially motivated ruling,...

By Jessica Weber | October 11, 2019 | Students, Beyond Brilliant

Beyond Brilliant: Alfonso Maldonado '13

//--> Heading north from Riverside, Alfonso Maldonado '13 often makes the more-than-50-mile drive to the Adelanto U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center in the Mojave Desert. There he meets with clients; most, newly arrived immigrants to the United States seeking asylum while their cases maneuver the legal system. Maldonado...

By Hayley Fox | October 11, 2019 | Students, Beyond Brilliant

Students' summer impact

Summer break does not translate into idle hours for these three UC Riverside students. For Bela Mendoza, a three-month summer internship with Riverside’s Operation SafeHouse, a youth emergency shelter, has given her an inside look at how to make a bigger — and more positive — impact in the lives...

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | August 28, 2019 | Students

Roseanne Carmen Rosenthal at UC Riverside on July 31, 2019. (UCR/Stan Lim)

Earning her chances

Roseanne Carmen Rosenthal’s latest achievements have come by chance — or at least that’s what she thinks. But luck alone doesn’t account for the seven courses she took during spring quarter in order to complete her bachelor’s degree — and the 3.36 GPA she earned doing it — while also...

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | August 9, 2019 | Students

Out of this world: An alumna’s dream comes true

Brittany Seto ’16, who studied computer science at UC Riverside, interned at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where a record number of UCR undergraduates are spending the summer

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 6, 2019 | Science / Technology, Students