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One of humanity’s oldest creations is the most powerful weapon against the coronavirus

Computer science student helps ensure Covid-19 pandemic won’t hinder academic success in his community

In a two-county region at risk of an undercount, grassroots momentum has grown to ensure participation in the 2020 census

The daily 1 p.m. Zoom call has become a lifeline for a team of UC Riverside students and their project scientist. Sometimes the call focuses on data, driven by the greenhouse emissions research they are conducting for Francesca Hopkins, assistant professor of climate change and sustainability. Other times, they talk...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 three...

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...

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 represents...

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...

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...

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

Temperatures are rising and UCR students are dreaming of vacations.

Another seven students also received prestigious honors.

A UCR report finds more than 80% of graduates start their careers in California.

A systemwide initiative was launched in 2016 to increase support for these students.