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For the second year in a row, the UCR International Education Center (IEC) is offering university faculty and staff members an opportunity to connect with an international student through the...
View ArticleBlack History Month Experts Available
As the nation remembers King on Monday and prepares to observe Black History Month in February, members of the UC Riverside faculty are available to comment on the Civil Rights Movement and the role of...
View ArticleChristian Jacobs Reminisces About UCR’s Legendary Music Venue the Barn
In the Winter 2013 issue of UCR Magazine, we showcase the Barn — a legendary university venue that was transformed from a horse stable into a campus hangout with a rich history of music and culture....
View ArticleGluck Summer Camp of the Arts Now Taking Applications
The Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside is now taking applications for its annual summer camp. The summer camp will be held on the UCR campus and at UCR ARTSblock on June 17–21 and June...
View ArticleUCR Libraries Launches Inland Empire Memories Initiative
UCR Libraries announces the Inland Empire Memories Initiative, which seeks to preserve the rich cultural legacies of the region's diverse communities.
View ArticleUCR Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Dance Ph.D.
The Department of Dance will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Ph.D. program in critical dance studies — the first of its kind in the United States and one of the few in the world — with a yearlong...
View ArticleGrants Totaling $225,000 Fund Global Religious Research
Four University of California, Riverside scholars have been awarded grants totaling $225,000 for three research projects that will examine global religious festivals in California, the role of...
View ArticleCivic Morality Theme of Rivera Conference Feb. 21
Latino artists and scholars who model the kind of civic morality advocated by poet and former UC Riverside Chancellor Tomás Rivera will lead the 26th annual conference honoring his legacy on Feb. 21.
View ArticleUC Riverside Professor Aims to Amplify the Voice of Asian Americans
A UC Riverside Professor of Political Science, Karthick Ramakrishnan, is part of a new venture in data journalism and digital storytelling produced by, and focused on, Asian Americans and Pacific...
View ArticleGuardian Princesses Welcome Fans to Launch Party
Fans of the Guardian Princesses books and characters will celebrate the launch of a new educational media organization embodying the ideals of the superheroines at a party on Saturday, Aug. 2, at UCLA....
View ArticleGreat Expectations, Not-so-great Resolutions
Faculty experts at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss their latest research and topics ranging from the chemistry of your favorite holiday concoctions, managing...
View ArticleBasque Scholar to Read from New Novel
Noted Basque scholar Begoña Echeverria will read from her novel, “The Hammer of Witches: A Historical Novel,” at UC Riverside at noon on Thursday, Jan. 22, in Orbach Library
View ArticleNot Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
Straight white men have engaged in gay sex for centuries, and not just in circumstances that can be explained away as momentary aberrations, Jane Ward writes in her new book, "Not Gay: Sex between...
View ArticleUC Riverside’s Chicano Student Programs Presents the 22nd Annual Noche Cultural
The University of California, Riverside’s Chicano Student Programs presents the 22nd annual Noche Cultural on Saturday, Feb. 6. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the show set to begin at 6:30 p.m. The evening...
View ArticleTaking the Global View at UC Riverside
Making UC Riverside more global takes a lot of big gestures, like the October visit of a sitting head of state, President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama. It was an event that has little precedent at...
View ArticleAn Iconic B-Boy
The University of California, Riverside’s dance department welcomes Ken Swift as a visiting assistant professor for the 2016 spring quarter. Swift is an internationally acclaimed American practitioner...
View ArticleUC Riverside Library Receives $100,000 Grant from the Institute of Museum and...
The University of California, Riverside Library received a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The $100,000 grant will fund a collaborative...
View ArticleUC Riverside Student Receives William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship to Study...
Martina Chase-Rios, a fourth-year double major in anthropology and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the William Jefferson Clinton...
View ArticleHistorian Wins Prize for Research on Swiss History
Randolph C. Head, professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, has won the 2017 Max Geilinger Foundation Prize for a body of research on Swiss history.
View ArticleThird Gender Defies Image of Macho Mexico
Hybrid-gender Zapotec men in Mexico – known as los muxes – are the subject of a new book by Alfredo Mirandé, “Behind the Mask: Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community.”
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