Dear Colleagues: I am writing to let you know that I have been selected to be the next president of SUNY Purchase College. Purchase College like UCR is a tremendous institution with committed colleagues like you in our student’s success. I have been truly fortunate to be at UCR and to have so many of...

Every spring, seniors in UC Riverside’s Department of Art participate in an exhibition at the UCR ARTS Culver Center of the Arts in Downtown Riverside. With social-distancing protocols in place to slow the COVID-19 outbreak, the exhibition has moved online along with art, classes, and jobs across the country. The virtual exhibition titled, Home Bodies...

A month after COVID-19 temporarily closed UCR ARTS to the public, its employees launched a new website to bring art into your home. With the Culver Center’s 10th anniversary approaching, it serves as a place to celebrate art at UC Riverside and the city of Riverside. VirtualUCRARTS.ucr.edu features online exhibitions, a virtual cinema, activities for...

Many students are facing uncertainty as they graduate in the midst of a pandemic. UCR’s Career Center is here to help. The Career Center helps UCR students navigate potential career paths, and offers numerous resources. Though in-person resources are suspended due to the campus shutdown, the Career Center is offering a number of virtual resources...

UC Riverside Political Science major Samir Al-Alami spent his summer break in Michigan. Last June, the outgoing senior began a seven-week fellowship for the Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. With an acceptance rate of approximately one in six students, the...

In 2016, Christopher Watkins III created Hats, a short film about a baseball player from South Central Los Angeles. It was the culmination of all that he’d learned during his time as an undergraduate student at UC Riverside and a graduate student at the University of Southern California. At UCR, Watkins started on his academic...

For most, awkward silence is something to be avoided. For the UCR student film club, R’Shorts, awkward silence is what wins awards. In spring 2019, R’Shorts submitted their short film Awkward Silence to the Film Festival run by UCR’s Associated Students Program Board (ASPB), as well as the Riverside International Film Festival (RIFF). R’Shorts won...

“It’s not thinking about light. It’s thinking about what’s not lit,” said Ben Tusher, Production Manager and Resident Lighting Designer for UC Riverside’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production. Tusher was hired in July 2019, and has spent most of his life thinking about lighting and production. Before UCR, Tusher worked on the theme...

CHASS Teaching Award The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences invites nominations for the 2019-20 CHASS Teaching Award. The award is made annually to recognize outstanding achievement in teaching by a faculty member of the College. The recipient will be formally recognized during the academic year as the Patricia McSweeney McCauly Chair in Teaching...

Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Susan Straight has spent 32 years at UCR inspiring her students to tell their own stories. Now she has published her own story, " In the Country of Women: a Memoir”. Straight’s memoir examines the lives of five generations of women in her family who have migrated from around the...