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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.

First-generation college students in sociology and education received the Ford Foundation awards to support their research

This Nigeria native came to UC Riverside ready to make friends and learn about finance.

A felony conviction gave Ramón Leija the determination to turn his life around.

Medical school graduate Hurnan Vongsachang will start her residency in emergency medicine this summer

A first-generation student’s journey into entomology.

Nearly 6,000 students are eligible to graduate this year, with ceremonies running from May 31- June 17.

This future PepsiCo associate was raised without her parents since the age of 9. Her resiliency transformed into grit

Yasamin Bolourian pursued a doctorate in special education due to a passion for helping families.

A shift from soccer to tennis jostled Kyle McCann's Irish footballer-father, but a storied UCR career affirms it was the right move.