University of California, Riverside

{{Main|History of the University of California, Riverside}}

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At the turn of the 20th century, Southern California was a major producer of citrus, the region's primary agricultural export. The industry developed from the country's first navel orange trees, planted in Riverside in 1873. Lobbied by the citrus industry, the UC Regents established the UC Citrus Experiment Station (CES) on February 14, 1907, on {{convert|23|acre|ha|0|sp=us}} of land on the east slope of Mount Rubidoux in Riverside. The station conducted experiments in fertilization, irrigation and crop improvement. In 1917, the station was moved to a larger site, {{convert|475|acre|ha|0|sp=us}} near Box Springs Mountain.{{cite book|last=Ruther |first=Walter |author2=E. Clair Calavan |author3=Glen E. Carman |title=The Citrus Industry, Volume V, Chapter Five: The Origins of Citrus Research in California |publisher=Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California |year=1989 |url=http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/citrus_history.pdf |location=Oakland |access-date=August 21, 2007 |isbn=0-931876-87-7 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808175051/http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/citrus_history.pdf |archive-date=August 8, 2007}}

The 1944 passage of the GI Bill during World War II set in motion a rise in college enrollments that necessitated an expansion of the state university system in California. A local group of citrus growers and civic leaders, including many UC Berkeley alumni, lobbied aggressively for a UC-administered liberal arts college next to the CES. State Senator Nelson S. Dilworth authored Senate Bill 512 (1949) which former Assemblyman Philip L. Boyd and Assemblyman John Babbage (both of Riverside) were instrumental in shepherding through the State Legislature.{{cite press release|title=University of California, Riverside Campus Timeline|url=http://www.info.ucr.edu/announce/20020722timeline.html|year=2002|publisher=UCR News|access-date=January 10, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20021017025918/http://www.info.ucr.edu/announce/20020722timeline.html|archive-date=October 17, 2002}}{{cite web|title=Gabbert Oral History transcript|url=http://www.ucrhistory.ucr.edu/pdf/gabbert.pdf|publisher=University of California, Riverside, Oral History Project|date=April 2, 1998 |access-date=August 22, 2007}} Governor Earl Warren signed the bill in 1949, allocating $2 million for initial campus construction.{{cite journal|last=Lovekin|first=Kris|title=Enjoying Our Past|journal=Fiat Lux|volume=14|issue=2|pages=14–17|publisher=University of California, Riverside|date=February 2004|url=http://www.fiatlux.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=583|access-date=August 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213184533/http://www.fiatlux.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=583|archive-date=February 13, 2009|url-status=dead}}

Gordon S. Watkins, dean of the UCLA College of Letters and Science, became the first provost of the new college at Riverside. Initially conceived of as a small college devoted to the liberal arts, he ordered the campus built for a maximum of 1,500 students and recruited many young junior faculty to fill teaching positions.{{cite web|title=Adrian Oral History Transcript|url= http://www.ucrhistory.ucr.edu/pdf/adrian.pdf|date=July 2, 1998|publisher=University of California, Riverside Oral History Project|access-date=January 10, 2007}} He presided at its opening with 65 faculty and 127 students on February 14, 1954, remarking, "Never have so few been taught by so many."{{cite news|last= Agha|first= Marisa|title= UCR's half-century of progress Celebration: The university is marking its 50th anniversary with a variety of events.|work= Press Enterprise|date= January 19, 2004|url= http://www.belltower.ucr.edu/subpage.php?content=news/ucr_half_century011904.html|access-date= August 20, 2007}}

UCR's enrollment exceeded 1,000 students by the time Clark Kerr became president of the UC system in 1958.{{cite web|last=Stadtman|first=Verne A.|title=The Centennial Record of the University of California|year=1967|publisher=Office of the Regents of the University of California, Office of the Secretary

|url=http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb4v19n9zb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00792&toc.depth=1&toc.id=div00792&brand=calisphere|access-date= August 10, 2007}} Anticipating a "tidal wave" in enrollment growth required by the baby boom generation, Kerr developed the California Master Plan for Higher Education and the Regents designated Riverside a general university campus in 1959.{{cite book|last=Kerr|first=Clark|title=The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967 Volume I: Academic Triumphs|year=2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=RA1-PA153|location=Berkeley|publisher=University of California Press|access-date=January 10, 2007|isbn=0-520-22367-5}} UCR's first chancellor, Herman Theodore Spieth, oversaw the beginnings of the school's transition to a full university and its expansion to a capacity of 5,000 students. UCR's second chancellor, Ivan Hinderaker led the campus through the era of the free speech movement and kept student protests peaceful in Riverside.{{cite web|title=Hinderaker Oral History Transcript|url=http://www.ucrhistory.ucr.edu/pdf/hinderakeri.pdf|publisher=University of California, Riverside Oral History Project|date=May 5, 1998|access-date=January 10, 2008}} According to a 1998 interview with Hinderaker, the city of Riverside received negative press coverage for smog after the mayor asked Governor Ronald Reagan to declare the South Coast Air Basin a disaster area in 1971; subsequent student enrollment declined by up to 25% through 1979.{{cite web|url=http://ucrapb.ucr.edu/institutional_planning/trend/yearavgenr.shtml|title=Academic Planning and Budget: Year-Avg Headcount Enrollment|publisher=Institutional Planning, Office of Planning and Budget, University of California, Riverside|access-date=March 22, 2008}} Hinderaker's development of innovative programs in business administration and biomedical sciences created incentive for enough students to enroll at Riverside to keep the campus open.{{cite news|last=Parsavand |first=Shirin |title=Former UCR chancellor Ivan Hinderaker dies at 91 |date=September 25, 2007 |url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_D_hinderaker25.4033be3.html |work=Press Enterprise |access-date=September 26, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215160026/http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_D_hinderaker25.4033be3.html |archive-date=February 15, 2009}}

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In the 1990s, UC experienced a new surge of enrollment applications, now known as "Tidal Wave II".{{cite web |title=Tidal Wave II Revisited, A Review of Earlier Enrollment Projections For CA Higher Education|last1= Hayward|first1= Gerald C.|last2= Brenman|first2= David W.|last3= Estrada|first3= Leobardo F.|publisher= National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education|location=San Jose and Washington, D.C. |date=September 1998|url=http://www.highereducation.org/reports/tidalwave/wave.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818201500/http://www.highereducation.org/reports/tidalwave/wave.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 18, 2000 |access-date= August 21, 2007}} The Regents targeted UCR for an annual growth rate of 6.3%, the fastest in the UC system, and anticipated 19,900 students at UCR by 2010.{{cite press release|title=UC Enrollment Growth|publisher=News and Communications, University of California, Office of the President|url=http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/commserv/FS000302Enroll.pdf|access-date=August 22, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808175051/http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/commserv/FS000302Enroll.pdf|archive-date=August 8, 2007}} By 1995, African American, American Indian, and Latino student enrollments accounted for 30% of the UCR student body, the highest proportion of any UC campus at the time.{{cite web|last=Robinson|first=Nina|title=Undergraduate Access to the University of California After the Elimination of Race Conscious Policies|location=Oakland|publisher=UC Office of the President|date=March 2003|url=http://www.ucop.edu/sas/publish/aa_final2.pdf|access-date=August 21, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808175053/http://www.ucop.edu/sas/publish/aa_final2.pdf|archive-date=August 8, 2007}} The 1997 implementation of Proposition 209—which banned the use of affirmative action by state agencies—reduced the ethnic diversity at the more selective UC campuses but further increased it at UCR.{{cite news|title=Diversity in the affirmative, Some point to UCR as an example of why race-based policies are not necessary.|last=Knott Ahern|first=Louise|work=Press Enterprise|date=May 5, 2003|url=http://www.inthenews.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=3472|access-date=August 21, 2007}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}

With UCR scheduled for dramatic population growth, efforts have been made to increase its popular and academic recognition.{{cite web |title=UCR's Long Range Development Plan|date=October 2005 |url=http://www.lrdp.ucr.edu/LRDP05-Oct2005.pdf |publisher=University of California, Riverside, Office of Academic Planning & Budget, Capital & Physical Planning |access-date=August 10, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816173859/http://lrdp.ucr.edu/LRDP05-Oct2005.pdf|archive-date=August 16, 2010}} The students voted for a fee increase to move UCR athletics into NCAA Division I standing in 1998.{{cite press release |title=UCR Invited to Join Big West Conference, Clearing Major Hurdle in Division I Bid|date=October 1, 1999 |url=http://www.athletics.ucr.edu/pressreleasearchives/9900prarchives.html |publisher=UC Riverside Athletics |access-date=February 6, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112115315/http://www.athletics.ucr.edu/pressreleasearchives/9900prarchives.html|archive-date=January 12, 2008}} In the 1990s, proposals were made to establish a law school, a medical school, and a school of public policy at UCR, with the UCR School of Medicine and the School of Public Policy becoming reality in 2012.{{cite press release|title=UC Riverside Updates Plan for Future Law School, Campus has long-range plans for a medical school, a law school and a school of public policy|publisher=University of California, Riverside, Office of Strategic Communications|date=May 19, 2006 |url=http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1347|access-date=August 21, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 22, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070622051903/http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1347}} In June 2006, UCR received its largest gift, 15.5 million from two local couples, in trust towards building its medical school.{{cite news |last=Agha |first=Marisa |author2=Quan, Douglas |title=UC Riverside receives its largest gift, $15.5 million |work=The Press Enterprise |date=June 16, 2006 |url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_R_donor17.1d1979b.html |access-date=August 21, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070526062228/http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_R_donor17.1d1979b.html |archive-date= May 26, 2007}} The Regents formally approved UCR's medical school proposal in 2006. Upon its completion in 2013, it was the first new medical school built in California in 40 years.{{cite news |last=Agha|first=Marisa|title=Regent's ratify Med School |work=The Press Enterprise |date=November 16, 2006 |url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_D_ucrmed17.371bb52.html |access-date=August 21, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070528112003/http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_D_ucrmed17.371bb52.html |archive-date=May 28, 2007}}{{cite news|last=Regus |first=Elaine |title=UC Riverside taking final steps in planning medical school |work=The Press Enterprise |date=October 29, 2007 |url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_medskl23.368812d.html |access-date=October 29, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213202355/http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_medskl23.368812d.html |archive-date=February 13, 2009}}

{{Main|University of California, Riverside campus}}

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{{wide image|View of Riverside from Box Springs(cropped).jpg|800px|align-cap=center|Panoramic view of campus from the Box Springs Mountains (north to the right). Student housing is to the far lower right, west of which are the athletic facilities. The dense vegetation to the lower left constitutes the Botanic Gardens. The agricultural fields in the central left are designated for future campus development. (2007)|alt=Panoramic aerial image of UC Riverside}}

UCR's main campus sits at an elevation of {{cvt|1100|ft|m}} to {{cvt|1450|ft|m}} near Box Springs Mountain, 3 miles (5 km) east of downtown Riverside, 3 miles (5 km) south of neighboring Highgrove, CA, and comprises {{convert|1112|acre|ha|0|sp=us}} divided into eastern and western areas by the State Route 60 freeway.{{cite web|title=University of California, Riverside Botanic Gardens: The Physical Site |publisher=University of California, Riverside, Center for Visual Computing |url=http://www.gardens.ucr.edu/gardens/thesite.html|access-date=August 22, 2007|archive-date=August 14, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814080523/http://www.gardens.ucr.edu/gardens/thesite.html}}

East Campus, occupying approximately {{convert|600|acre|ha|0|sp=us}}, hosts the core cluster of academic buildings and services. The original buildings that formed the earliest kernel of the campus included the UC Citrus Experiment Station, residential buildings, and barn, all of which are still in use. They were designed by Lester H. Hibbard, in association with H.B. Cody. Built by 1917 at a cost of $165,000, the architecture of the major buildings followed the Mission Revival style suggesting the Spanish colonial heritage of Southern California.

Further major construction largely ceased on the site until the groundbreaking for the College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) in April 1951. A group of five buildings designed by different architects in a decidedly more Modern style were completed by 1954: the Rivera Library, Webber Hall, Geology Building, Physical Education Building and Watkins Hall. After the Regents declared UCR a "general campus" of the UC system in 1958, many new buildings and additions were laid out over the following decade. Following an east–west axis, new student residence halls and athletic facilities were developed along the southeastern quadrant of the main campus, while academic and research facilities were built along the central campus area closer to the freeway. The Bell Tower, one of only five carillons in California, was built in this period. Designed by A. Quincy Jones, the tower is {{convert|161|ft|m|abbr=on}} tall and contains 48 bells, each weighing from {{convert|28|lb|kg}} to {{convert|5091|lb|kg}}, covering four chromatic octaves.{{cite news |title=Time and Tone at UCR |work=San Bernardino Sun |date=January 10, 1966 |page=20}}

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After the drop in enrollment and subsequent restructuring of academic programs in the 1970s, little capacity construction was undertaken over the next two decades. However, enrollment growth in the late 1980s justified considerable further campus expansion over the 1990s. Major additions built in the period include: Bourns Hall, completed in 1995; the Humanities & Social Science building, completed in 1996; and the Science Library, completed in 1998. The Pentland and Stonehaven residence halls were completed in 2000, and the Arts building was completed in 2001. Active construction projects include the "Multidisciplinary Research Building," new residence halls located east of A-I and ongoing renovations to Pierce Hall.{{cite web|title=Building for the Future|publisher= University of California, Riverside, Office of Design and Construction|url= http://pdc.ucr.edu/pdf_files/Construction_Progress.pdf|access-date= January 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627154733/http://pdc.ucr.edu/pdf_files/Construction_Progress.pdf |archive-date=June 27, 2008}}{{cite journal|last= Forgey|first= Mary|title= UC Riverside Plays 'Catch-Up'|journal= California Construction|date= May 2004|url= http://california.construction.com/features/archive/0405_Feature11.asp|access-date= August 22, 2007|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040620194350/http://california.construction.com/features/archive/0405_Feature11.asp|archive-date= June 20, 2004|url-status= dead}} The first phase of a new Commons was completed in 2007, and phase II is in development. Other ongoing projects include a new CHASS Instructional and Research Center and Students Academic Support Services Building.{{cite web|title=Commons|url=http://www.commons.ucr.edu/default.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981205054720/http://www.commons.ucr.edu/default.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 5, 1998|publisher=University of California, Riverside|access-date=October 10, 2007}} Since 1999, more than $730 million has been invested in construction projects.

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Of the {{convert|511|acre|ha|0|sp=us}} of UCR property constituting West Campus, approximately {{convert|216|acre|ha|0|sp=us}} along University Avenue have been developed. These include facilities such as University Extension, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Germplasm Repository, International Village (student housing), Human Resources and Highlander Hall. University Village, a mixed use commercial development, features a movie theater, stores, restaurants, office space, and an apartment complex, along with a parking structure and surface parking. Citrus groves and row crops occupy the remaining {{convert|295|acre|ha|0|sp=us}} stretching northwest to the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Le Conte Drive. Plans for future expansion include converting a portion of these fields into new UCR infrastructure.

The University of California, Riverside has recently united its three downtown arts presentation venues under the umbrella name of the UCR ARTSblock. The ARTSblock is composed of the UCR/California Museum of Photography, The Sweeney Art Gallery, and the Culver Center of the Arts, a media lab and presentation facility. The three institutions reside side by side in the heart of downtown Riverside's historic pedestrian mall.{{cite web|title=UCR/ARTSblock|publisher= University of California, Riverside, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences|url=http://artsblock.ucr.edu/about_mission.lasso |access-date= August 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070425081247/http://www.artsblock.ucr.edu/about_mission.lasso|archive-date=April 25, 2007}}{{cite news|last= Haberman|first= Doug|title= Riverside colleges to bring arts schools downtown|url= http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_H_arts24.39f70e1.html|work= The Press Enterprise|date= October 23, 2007|access-date=October 23, 2007|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071026054103/http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_H_arts24.39f70e1.html|archive-date= October 26, 2007}}

The Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management was founded in Palm Desert in 2001. After the {{convert|540|acre|ha|0|sp=us|adj=on}} Coachella Valley Agricultural Research Station, it is UCR's second institutional presence in the Coachella Valley. Initially by a $6 million gift from Richard J. Heckmann, a water treatment entrepreneur, the institution was planned as a teaching and research center of the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at the UCR School of Business. The center encourages local entrepreneurship through the Coachella Valley Angel Network, an angel investment network.{{cite news|last=Tucker|first=Darla Martin|title=Angels seek startups to shepherd|url=http://cvangelnetwork.com/bizpress112606.html|work=The Business Press|date=November 26, 2006|access-date=August 23, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717055113/http://cvangelnetwork.com/bizpress112606.html|archive-date=July 17, 2012}} A further investment of $10 million from the State of California and a donation of {{convert|20|acre|ha|0|sp=us}} of land from the City of Palm Desert allowed for the opening of an expanded graduate center on April 15, 2005, adjacent to the California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus. The center is also home to university researchers in conservation biology, technology transfer and Native American studies. Master's level instruction in business management and creative writing is available at the center.{{cite web|title=UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center|publisher=University of California, Riverside|url=http://www.palmdesert.ucr.edu/index.php?content=/about/index.html|access-date=August 23, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612114206/http://palmdesert.ucr.edu/index.php?content=%2Fabout%2Findex.html|archive-date=June 12, 2007|url-status=dead}}

{{Main|University of California, Riverside academics}}

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As a campus of the University of California system, UCR is governed by a Board of Regents and administered by a president. The current president is Michael V. Drake, and the current chancellor of the university is Kim A. Wilcox. UCR's academic policies are set by its Academic Senate, a legislative body composed of all UCR faculty members.{{cite web|title=The Duties and Structure of the Academic Senate: A Brief Review, Academic Senate Office|publisher=University of California, Riverside|url=http://www.senate.ucr.edu/senate_site/cms.php?node=duties_and_structure|access-date=January 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106102624/http://www.senate.ucr.edu/senate_site/cms.php?node=duties_and_structure|archive-date=November 6, 2007}}

UCR is organized into three academic colleges, two professional schools, and two graduate schools. UCR's liberal arts college, the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, was founded in 1954, and began accepting graduate students in 1960. The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, founded in 1958, incorporated the CES as part of the first research-oriented institution at UCR; it eventually also incorporated the natural science departments formerly associated with the liberal arts college to form its present structure in 1974. UCR's newest academic unit, the Bourns College of Engineering, was founded in 1989.{{cite press release|title=UC Riverside College of Engineering Hires Thirteen New Faculty Members|url=http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=717|date=December 22, 2003|publisher=University of California, Riverside|access-date=December 7, 2007|archive-date=February 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211133112/http://newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=717|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.cnas.ucr.edu/about/history.html|title=UCR College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, History|publisher=University of California, Riverside|access-date=March 12, 2008

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709031510/http://cnas.ucr.edu/about/history.html|archive-date=July 9, 2007}} Comprising the professional schools are the Graduate School of Education, founded in 1968, and the UCR School of Business, founded in 1970. These units collectively provide 81 majors and 52 minors, 48 master's degree programs, and 42 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs.{{cite web|url=http://catalog.ucr.edu/UCR_Catalog_0708.pdf|title=2007–08 UCR General Catalog|publisher=University of California, Riverside|access-date=August 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025141609/http://catalog.ucr.edu/UCR_Catalog_0708.pdf |archive-date=October 25, 2007}} UCR is the only UC campus to offer undergraduate degrees in creative writing and public policy and one of three UCs (along with Berkeley and Irvine) to offer an undergraduate degree in business administration.{{cite web|url=http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/ITU.pdf|title=Introducing the University, 08–09|publisher=University of California, Office of the President, Student Affairs|date=April 2007|access-date=August 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222133915/http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/ITU.pdf |archive-date=February 22, 2007}} Through its Division of Biomedical Sciences, founded in 1974, UCR offers the Thomas Haider medical degree program in collaboration with UCLA. UCR's doctoral program in the emerging field of dance theory, founded in 1992, was the first program of its kind in the United States, and UCR's minor in lesbian, gay and bisexual studies, established in 1996, was the first undergraduate program of its kind in the UC system.{{cite news|last= La Rocco|first= Cynthia|title= DANCE; Mind And Body At Yale |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E5DE1738F930A1575AC0A9619C8B63|work=New York Times |date= September 23, 2007|access-date= October 10, 2007}}{{cite news

|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E3D61631F93BA15751C1A961958260|title=Study of Sex Experiencing 2d Revolution|work=New York Times|access-date=February 3, 2008

|last=Bronner|first=Ethan|date=December 28, 1997}}{{cite journal|url=http://out.ucr.edu/campus/studies_article2001.htm|title=New Schools of Thought|journal=Frontiers|volume=20|issue=3|year=2001|access-date=February 3, 2008|last=Catrone|first=Vince|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703194954/http://out.ucr.edu/campus/studies_article2001.htm|archive-date=July 3, 2008}} A new BA program in bagpipes was inaugurated in 2007.{{cite news|url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_D_bagpipes11.3ab535f.html |title=UCR's unique bagpipes and drum degree program beckons with top-notch directors |work=Press Enterprise |date=April 10, 2008 |access-date=April 12, 2008 |last=Regus |first=Elaine |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517002201/http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_D_bagpipes11.3ab535f.html |archive-date=May 17, 2008}}

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| USNWR_NU = 76 (tie)

| Wamo_NU = 79

| WSJ_NU = 108

| QS_W = 497 (tie)

| THE_W = 251–300

| USNWR_W = 223 (tie)

| ARWU_W= 201–300

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Institutional rankings of UC Riverside vary widely, depending on the criteria of the publication. For instance, U.S. News & World Report has named UC Riverside the top university in the nation for social mobility in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019.{{cite web|url=https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/09/12/its-three-peat-ucr-again-tops-social-mobility-ranking|title=It's a three-peat: UCR again tops social mobility ranking|publisher=UCR|access-date=September 21, 2021}} In the 2025 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges", UCR was ranked tied for 76th among national universities, 36th among public schools, and 1st for social mobility (5th year in a row); criteria include professor peer assessment, student selectivity and retention, as well as faculty resources, financial resources, and alumni giving.{{cite magazine |title=University of California-Riverside |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-california-riverside-1316/overall-rankings |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=January 6, 2019}} In the 2020 edition of the Washington Monthly college rankings, UCR ranked 27th among national universities. Washington Monthly assesses the quality of schools based on social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country). In the 2021 edition of Webometrics Ranking of World Universities based in Spain, UCR was ranked 67th among national universities and 132nd among world universities. Money magazine ranked UC Riverside 48th in the country out of the nearly 1500 schools it evaluated for its 2020 Best Colleges ranking.{{cite magazine |author=Mulhere |first=Kaitlin |date=August 25, 2020 |title=Money's Best Colleges |url=https://money.com/best-25-colleges-for-your-money/ |url-status=live |magazine=Money.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601153826/https://money.com/best-25-colleges-for-your-money/ |archive-date=June 1, 2022 |access-date=September 17, 2018}} According to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index published by Academic Analytics in 2006, UCR as an institution ranked 46th among top research universities considering such criteria as faculty publications, citations, research funding and other honors.{{cite journal|last=Fogg|first=Piper|title=A New Standard for Measuring Doctoral Programs|journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=January 12, 2007|url=http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i19/19a00801.htm|access-date=August 22, 2007}} Since 1997, more than 110 UCR faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Over the course of UCR's history, seven current or former faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and more than 50 have received Guggenheim Fellowships. UCR currently has two Nobel laureates on its faculty.{{Cite news|url=https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/55018|title=Nobel Laureate Barry Barish Joins UC Riverside Faculty|work=UCR Today|access-date=August 27, 2018|language=en-US}}

UCR operated under a $727 million budget in fiscal year 2014–15.{{cite web|url=https://www.ucr.edu/sites/g/files/rcwecm986/files/2018-03/15_16_budget_overview.pdf|title=UCR Budget Overview|date=October 13, 2015|publisher=University of California, Riverside |access-date=March 13, 2019}} The state government provided $214 million, student fees accounted for $224 million and $100 million came from contracts and grants. Private support and other sources accounted for the remaining $189 million. Overall, monies spent at UCR have an economic impact of nearly $1 billion in California. UCR research expenditure in FY 2018 totaled $167.8 million.{{cite web |title=Table 20. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2018 R&D expenditures: FYs 2009–18 |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |website=ncsesdata.nsf.gov |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=19 July 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://apb.ucr.edu/documents/budget/UCR_Spending.pdf|title=UCR Spending|date=2012|website=ucr.edu|access-date=March 13, 2019}}{{cite web|title= Sponsored Programs Activity, Fiscal Year 2006 Annual Summary Report|publisher= University of California, Riverside, Office of Research|year= 2006|url= http://or.ucr.edu/Files/pdf/annual2006.pdf|access-date= August 22, 2007|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070808175051/http://or.ucr.edu/Files/pdf/annual2006.pdf|archive-date= August 8, 2007}} Total research expenditures at Riverside are significantly concentrated in agricultural science, accounting for 53% of total research expenditures spent by the university in 2002.{{cite web|last=ICF Consulting|url=http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/itstartshere/report/fullreport.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030530034047/http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/itstartshere/report/fullreport.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 30, 2003|title=California's Future: It Starts Here, UC's Contributions to Growth, Health, and Culture|date=March 2003|publisher=University of California, Office of the President|access-date=August 10, 2007}} Top research centers by expenditure, as measured in 2002, include the Agricultural Experiment Station, the Center for Environmental Research and Technology, the Center for Bibliographical Studies, the Air Pollution Research Center, and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.

Throughout UCR's history, researchers have developed more than 40 new citrus varieties and invented new techniques to help the $960 million-a-year California citrus industry fight pests and diseases. In 1927, entomologists at the CES introduced two wasps from Australia as natural enemies of a major citrus pest, the citrophilus mealybug, saving growers in Orange County $1 million in annual losses. This event was pivotal in establishing biological control as a practical means of reducing pest populations.{{cite book|last=Sawyer|first= Richard C.|title=To Make a Spotless Orange: Biological Control in California|location=West Lafayette, Indiana|publisher=Purdue University Press|year= 1996|isbn=1-55753-285-0}} In 1963, plant physiologist Charles Coggins proved that application of gibberellic acid allows fruit to remain on citrus trees for extended periods. The ultimate result of his work, which continued through the 1980s, was the extension of the citrus-growing season in California from four to nine months. In 1980, UC Riverside released the Oroblanco grapefruit, its first patented citrus variety. Since then, the citrus breeding program has released other varieties such as the Melogold grapefruit, the Gold Nugget mandarin (or tangerine), and others that have yet to be given trademark names.

To assist entrepreneurs in developing new products, UCR is a primary partner in the Riverside Regional Technology Park, which includes the City of Riverside and the County of Riverside.

{{cite news|url=http://www.inthenews.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=12520|title=Incubators hatch fledgling firms|work=The Business Press|access-date=March 9, 2008|date=June 19, 2006|last=Tucker|first=Darla Martin}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} It also administers six reserves of the University of California Natural Reserve System. UCR recently announced a partnership with China Agricultural University to launch a new center in Beijing, which will study ways to respond to the country's growing environmental issues.{{cite news|last=Bowles |first=Jennifer |title=UCR joins in China venture |url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/environment/stories/PE_News_Local_S_china17.3e41f93.html |work=Press Enterprise |date=October 17, 2007 |access-date=October 20, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214121034/http://www.pe.com/localnews/environment/stories/PE_News_Local_S_china17.3e41f93.html |archive-date=February 14, 2009}} UCR can also boast the birthplace of two name reactions in organic chemistry, the Castro-Stephens coupling and the Midland Alpine Borane Reduction.

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Admission to UC Riverside is rated as "more selective" by U.S. News & World Report.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-california-riverside-1316|title=University of California-Riverside|year=2019|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=March 16, 2019}}

For Fall 2018, UCR received 49,079 freshmen applications; 24,820 were admitted (50.6%).{{cite web |url=http://sara.ucr.edu/main_menu.html?id=profile |title=Student Profiles |publisher=University of California, Riverside – Strategic Academic Research and Analysis |date=October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030124155/http://sara.ucr.edu/main_menu.html?id=profile |archive-date=October 30, 2014}} The average GPA of the enrolled freshmen was 3.83, while the average SAT scores were 620 for reading & writing and 635 for math.{{cite web|url=http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/riverside/freshman-profile/index.html|title=UC Riverside freshman admission profile|access-date=March 16, 2019}}

In 2006, 43.4 percent of admitted students were first generation college students, 38.7 percent came from low family income backgrounds, and 24 percent graduated from low-performing high schools as measured by Academic Performance Index (API) scores.{{cite web |title=California Freshman Admit Profile Fall 2004, 2005, 2006 |publisher=University of California |url-status=dead |url=http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/freshman_admit_profile_2006.pdf |access-date=August 22, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906040309/http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/freshman_admit_profile_2006.pdf |archive-date=September 6, 2006}} In 2007, U.S. News ranked UCR as the third most ethnically diverse and, by the number of undergraduates receiving Pell Grants (42 percent), the 15th most economically diverse student body in the nation.{{cite web |title=Ethnic Diversity: National Universities |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_campdiv_brief.php |access-date=August 10, 2007 |work=U.S. News & World Report}}{{cite web |title=Economic Diversity Among All National Universities |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_ecodiv_brief.php |access-date=August 10, 2007 |work=U.S. News & World Report}}

According to statistics released by the Education Trust, a national nonprofit, in 2005 UC Riverside graduated 65.3 percent of its students in six years, a figure consistent with national averages but behind the average set by the top five public research universities by as much as 22 percent.{{cite web|title=Measuring Up 2006, The National Report Card on Higher Education |url=http://measuringup.highereducation.org/_docs/2006/NationalReport_2006.pdf|publisher=The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education|access-date=August 10, 2007|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070913185403/http://measuringup.highereducation.org/_docs/2006/NationalReport_2006.pdf|archive-date=September 13, 2007}}{{cite web|title=University of California, Riverside, Graduation Rates |url=http://www.collegeresults.org/search1a.aspx?InstitutionID=110671|publisher=The Education Trust|access-date= August 10, 2007}} However, UCR's consistency with the national average is well above the median of 39 percent for low-income-serving institutions as calculated in 2006 by the National Center for Education Statistics, making the campus a model for successful approaches to diversity in higher education.{{cite news |last=Hebel |first=Sara |date=March 19, 2007 |title=In California, a Public Research University Succeeds Because Its Low-Income Students Do |work=The Chronicle of Higher Education |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/In-California-a-Public/29577 |access-date=August 24, 2007}}

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Total library collections at UCR comprise more than 2 million volumes, 14,017 electronic journals, 23,000 serial subscriptions, and 1.7 million microformats.{{cite web|title=The UCR Libraries|publisher=University of California, Riverside|url=http://library.ucr.edu/content/lfmp/fact-sheet.pdf|access-date=August 22, 2007}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} Two large, four-story libraries house most of the physical collections. The {{convert|179595|ft|m|abbr=on}} Rivera library was constructed in 1954 and named after Tomás Rivera in 1985. It seats a capacity of 956 and houses general humanities and social science collections, as well as special collections, including the world's largest collection of science fiction, horror and fantasy literature, the 110,000-volume Eaton Collection.{{cite news|last=Conway|first=Melissa|title=J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature, Special Collections|url=http://www.celebratingresearch.org/libraries/riverside/eaton.shtml|access-date=August 27, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908062652/http://www.celebratingresearch.org/libraries/riverside/eaton.shtml|archive-date=September 8, 2008|url-status=dead}} The Rivera Library also hosts the only U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository based on a UC campus.{{cite news|last=Regus |first=Elaine |title=UC Riverside becomes an official U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository |url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_patent27.1834716.html |work=Press Enterprise |date=December 26, 2007 |access-date=December 27, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214112740/http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_patent27.1834716.html |archive-date=February 14, 2009}} The {{convert|125752|ft|m|abbr=on}} Raymond L. Orbach Science Library, built in 1998, seats a capacity of 1,360 and houses 533,000 volumes in the physical, natural, agricultural, biomedical, engineering and computer sciences, with special strengths in the areas of citrus and sub-tropical horticulture, entomology, and arid lands agriculture.{{cite web|title= Science Library|publisher=UCR Libraries|url=http://library.ucr.edu/?view=libraries/science|access-date=August 22, 2007}} On November 3, 2009, the Science library was officially renamed the Raymond L. Orbach Science Library in honor of former Chancellor Raymond L. Orbach. Smaller libraries include the Media and Cultural Library, the Music Library, and a branch digital library in Palm Desert.{{cite web|title= UCR Campus Libraries and Collections|publisher=UCR Libraries|url=http://library.ucr.edu/?view=libraries|access-date=August 22, 2007}} The UCR Library is one of 116 members of the Association of Research Libraries, and is ranked 93rd in this group.

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UCR's academic colleges administer significant museum collections in the arts and sciences. The Citrus Variety Collection constitutes 1,800 trees representing two of each of the 640 types of citrus and 28 other related genera in the family Rutaceae, the largest such collection in the world.{{cite conference|last=Kahn|first= T.L. |author2=Bier, O.J. |author3=Roose, M. |author4=Kruger, R. |author5=Gumpf, D.J. |title=The UC Riverside Citrus Variety Collection: Cornerstone of the California Citrus Genetic Resources Conservation and Utilization System|url=http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?seq_no_115=148853|book-title= International Citrus Congress|pages= 162–163|location=Orlando, Florida|publisher=International Society of Citriculture|year=2000|access-date=February 8, 2008}}{{cite news|last=Sheeran |first=Owen |title=UCR Grows Citrus Treasures |url=http://www.pe.com/lifestyles/stories/PE_Fea_Daily_D_dbltrk1128.1e28499.html |work=Press Enterprise |date=November 27, 2007 |access-date=November 27, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215162213/http://www.pe.com/lifestyles/stories/PE_Fea_Daily_D_dbltrk1128.1e28499.html |archive-date=February 15, 2009}} The Herbarium houses more than 110,000 dried plant specimens from across the Western hemisphere.{{cite web|title= UCR Herbarium|url= http://herbarium.ucr.edu/Herbarium.html|publisher= University of California, Riverside|access-date= November 7, 2007}}{{cite journal|last= Holt|first= Jodie|title= UC Riverside: Botanical and Related Pest Management Programs|journal= Noxious Times|publisher= California Interagency Noxious Weed Coordinating Committee|volume=3|issue= 3|date=Winter 2001|url=http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/ipc/noxioustimes/pdfs/2001winter.pdf|access-date= November 7, 2007}} UCR is also home to {{convert|40|acre|ha}} of botanical gardens containing more than 3,500 plant species from around the world. The Gardens are located in the eastern foothills of the Box Springs Mountain on the University of California, Riverside campus. Over four miles (6 km) of trails wind through many microclimates and hilly terrain.

The Entomology Research Museum contains more than four million insect specimens, with particular strengths in Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Aphelinidae, Thysanoptera and Meloidae.{{cite web|title= UCR Entomological Research Museum|url=http://entmuseum.ucr.edu|publisher= University of California, Riverside, College of Natural and Agricultural Resources|access-date= August 10, 2007}}{{cite web

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|publisher=Aphytis Project, University of California, Riverside|access-date=March 22, 2008|last1=Hearty|first1=J.|author2=J. Pinto |author3=S. Triapitsyn}} The UCR/California Museum of Photography and Sweeney Art Gallery house UCR's primary art collections. The UCR/CMP includes the world's largest holding of vintage stereographs, one of the three great public collections of photographic apparatus in the US, and the University Print Collection of contemporary and historical images by over 1000 photographers.{{cite news|url=http://www.inthenews.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=9155|title=Museum of Photography: It's all there in black and white|work=Redlands Daily Facts|access-date=March 8, 2008|date=April 29, 2005|last=Dobbs|first=Jennifer M.}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} Located adjacent to the UCR/CMP, the Sweeney Art Gallery holds approximately 650 unique works, with especially strong collections from the modern to contemporary periods, including pieces by Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Millard Sheets and Kara Walker.{{cite web|title= UCR/Sweeny Art Gallery|publisher= University of California, Riverside, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences|url= http://sweeney.ucr.edu/col_topic.lasso|access-date= November 5, 2007|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071106102628/http://sweeney.ucr.edu/col_topic.lasso|archive-date= November 6, 2007}}

Riverside enrolls the highest percentage of African American students of any of the 10 UC campuses and the second highest percentage of Latino students after Merced, prompting the Los Angeles Times and New York Times to run stories stating that UCR is a "campus of choice" for minority students.{{cite news |last=Paddock |first=Richard C. |date=January 15, 2007 |title=Diversity works at UC Riverside |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-15-me-riverside15-story.html |access-date=August 13, 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE2DA163DF931A35756C0A96F958260 |title=The Class of Prop. 209|work=New York Times Magazine|access-date=January 29, 2008|last=Traub|first=James|author-link=James Traub|date=May 2, 1998}} UCR was the first college in California to open a staffed lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) resource center in 1993, the first UC campus to offer an LGBT minor studies program in 1996, and the first campus in the nation to offer a gender-neutral housing option in 2005.{{cite press release |url=http://out.ucr.edu/campus/100best.htm |title=LGBT Resource Center UC Riverside Named Among 100 Best for LGBT Students |publisher=University of California, Riverside |access-date=February 3, 2008 |date=August 11, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703195130/http://out.ucr.edu/campus/100best.htm |archive-date=July 3, 2008}} In recognition of this, The Advocate recognized UCR as one of the nation's best campuses for LGBT students in 2006, although it did not make the top 20.{{cite book|last=Windmeyer|first=Shane L.|title=The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students|publisher=Alyson Publications, Inc.|year=2006|isbn=1-55583-857-X|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/advocatecollegeg00wind}} The Princeton Review listed UCR as a "Best Western College."{{cite news|url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/highereducation/stories/PE_News_Local_S_hiednotes11.468022b.html |title=UCR not ranked high in survey's happiness category |last=Regus |first=Elaine |date=August 10, 2008 |work=Press Enterprise |publisher=A. H. Belo |access-date=April 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615054559/http://www.pe.com/localnews/highereducation/stories/PE_News_Local_S_hiednotes11.468022b.html |archive-date=June 15, 2010}}{{cite web|title=University of California-Riverside's Best 366 College Rankings|work= Princeton Review|url=http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfo.asp?listing=1023545<ID=1|access-date= August 22, 2007}} (registration required) While over 83 percent of students are non-white, there is a tendency for the different ethnic groups to self-segregate.{{cite news|url=http://www.inthenews.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=3473|title=UCR sees diversity, may lack harmony|work=Press Enterprise|access-date=March 22, 2008|last=Ahern|first=Louise Knott|date=May 5, 2003}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}

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UCR's residence halls consist of four structures—Aberdeen-Inverness, Dundee, Lothian, and Pentland Hills—which can house over 3,000 students in single, double, and triple rooms.{{Cite web |title= Dundee | UCR Housing Services|url=https://housing.ucr.edu/ucr-housing-options/residence-halls/dundee}}{{cite web|url=https://housing.ucr.edu/ucr-housing-options/ucr-residence-halls|title=UCR Residence Halls|access-date=July 18, 2020}} In addition, UCR features several on-campus apartment complexes such as Stonehaven, Bannockburn Village, University Plaza, Falkirk, Oban, Glen Mor and International Village, which together house 959 students. Oban has since been upgraded to accommodate family housing following the demolition of Canyon Crest. Glen Mor, an apartment housing complex adjacent to Pentland Hills, was opened in 2007, and the university also purchased a nearby apartment complex, which is now known as Falkirk, for student housing in 2007.{{cite press release|title=UC Riverside Buys University House at Highlander Ridge|url=http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1575|publisher=University of California, Riverside|date=April 27, 2007|access-date=January 3, 2008}} About half of the student population lives in off-campus apartments, one-fourth commute, and one-fourth live on campus. Thirty percent of students remain on campus for the weekend.{{cite web|title= University of California, Riverside, campus life|url= http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drlife_1316_brief.php|work= U.S. News & World Report|access-date= August 22, 2007}}

Reflecting UCR's diversity, a number of residence halls have been established for specific social, cultural and academic needs. Ethnic and gender-oriented theme halls include Unete a Mundo, for students seeking to support Latino or Chicano students in acclimating to life at UCR; a Pan African Theme Hall for students interested in developing consciousness of African culture in relation to other cultures of the world; and Stonewall Hall, dedicated to students of all gender identities and sexual orientations who wish to live in a gender-neutral community. UCR's three academic colleges in the humanities, sciences and engineering fields are represented by respective theme halls, and halls exist for honor students and transfer students.{{cite web|title=UCR Housing Services|publisher=University of California, Riverside|url=http://housing.ucr.edu/CampusLiving/SpecialInterestCommunities.htm|access-date=August 22, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212232055/http://housing.ucr.edu/CampusLiving/SpecialInterestCommunities.htm|archive-date=February 12, 2007}}

In Fall 2018, UCR began construction of a new residence hall and dining facility in the parking lot behind Aberdeen-Inverness.https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july18/f7attach1.pdf

Plans for Dundee-Glasgow from the UC Regents This new residence hall and dining facility opened as Dundee-Glasgow in 2020, and features UCR's first two-story residential restaurant.{{cite web|url=http://dining.ucr.edu/residentialrestaurants/dundeeglasgow.html|title=Dundee-Glasgow|website=dining.ucr.edu|access-date=February 21, 2019}}

UCR hosts over 500 registered student organizations, including the Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside (ASUCR), which represents undergraduates on administrative and policy issues.{{cite web|title=Student Organizations|publisher= University of California, Riverside |url=http://resources.ucr.edu/studentlife/studentorgs/default.aspx|access-date= September 23, 2007}} ASUCR is guided by a Senate composed of 16 elected senators, who represent the three undergraduate colleges in proportion to their enrollment, 5 Executive Cabinet Officers (President, Executive Vice President, Vice President of Campus Internal Affairs, Vice President of External Affairs, and Vice President of Finance), and 6 Directors, who are in charge of the various parts of ASUCR, and a Judicial Council of 6, which adjudicates any cases involving personnel misconduct or interpretation of the Constitution. Membership is composed of all UCR students who pay mandatory activity fees.{{cite web|title=ASUCR Constitution|publisher=Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside|url=http://asucrexchange.ucr.edu/asucr_constitution_2015.pdf|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6hIksjp9I?url=http://asucrexchange.ucr.edu/asucr_constitution_2015.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 6, 2016|access-date=March 22, 2016}} ASUCR assesses these fees and distributes funds to registered student groups on campus, including student lobbying groups, a right that ASUCR won in a federal court case against the Regents in 1999.{{cite web|title=ASUCR v. Regents of the University of California (N.D. Ca. C98-00021 CRB)|url=http://www.nacua.org/documents/UniversityOfCalifornia.htm|publisher=National Association of College and University Attorneys |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218123155/http://www.nacua.org/documents/UniversityOfCalifornia.htm |archive-date=February 18, 2012 |date=January 8, 1999}}

File:BigC Box Springs Mountain.jpg.{{cite web|title=Riverside: Traditions|publisher=Bancroft Library, University Archives, UC History Digital Archives|url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~ucalhist/general_history/campuses/ucr/traditions.html|access-date=August 10, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070728123728/http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~ucalhist/general_history/campuses/ucr/traditions.html|archive-date=July 28, 2007}}|alt=Large concrete "C" on Box Springs Mountain]]

Of the registered student groups, 40 are fraternities and sororities. Nine men's fraternities belong to the North American Interfraternity Conference; seven women's sororities belong to the National Panhellenic Conference; seven men's fraternities and ten women's sororities represent the National Multicultural Greek Council, and two others fall under the campus Raza Assembly and are unique to UCR.{{cite web|title=Fraternity and Sorority Life |publisher=University of California, Riverside |url=http://studentlife.ucr.edu/Student+Organizations/Fraternity+and+Sorority+Life.htm |access-date=August 22, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013112901/http://studentlife.ucr.edu/Student%2BOrganizations/Fraternity%2Band%2BSorority%2BLife.htm |archive-date=October 13, 2007 |url-status=dead}} Thirteen percent of the undergraduate student body participates in Greek life, although chapter houses are not permitted.{{cite web|title= University of California, Riverside, extracurriculars|url= http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drextras_1316_brief.php|work= U.S. News & World Report|access-date= August 23, 2007}} Including the Greek letter organizations, more than 60 student volunteer service organizations at UCR contribute to more than 100,000 hours of collective and individual service done in the community each year.{{cite web|title= Community Involvement|publisher= University of California, Riverside|url=http://www.impact.ucr.edu/ci.html |access-date= August 23, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070727042846/http://www.impact.ucr.edu/ci.html|archive-date=July 27, 2007}} Jewish student life has existed for over a decade through UCR Hillel.{{cite web|url=http://iehillel.org/|title=Inland & Desert Hillel – The Foundation of Jewish Student Life Across Riverside and San Bernardino Counties}}

Student media organizations include The Highlander student newspaper, currently published every Tuesday during the academic year. First published in 1954, The Highlander remains an independent student media outlet. It was an entirely self-funded organization until 2001, when ASUCR passed a funding referendum for it. Student fees from the referendum go towards overhead and printing costs, however The Highlander is primarily funded through its own advertising revenue.{{cite web|title= Highlander Referendum, 2001|publisher= Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside |url=http://www.elections.ucr.edu/2001/Referenda/highlanderreferenda.html|access-date= August 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904172637/http://www.elections.ucr.edu/2001/Referenda/highlanderreferenda.html|archive-date=September 4, 2006}} In 2003, The Highlander published a comic depicting a stereotypical Asian American graduate teaching assistant with poor English skills, inciting community backlash and prompting an apology from Editor-in-Chief Kahlil Ford.{{cite conference|last=Healy|first=Scott. P.|title=Stop the Student Press: Editorial Cartooning on College Campuses|url= http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/PSApr07Healy.pdf|date=April 2007|book-title=The State of the Editorial Cartoon, PS Symposium|publisher=The American Political Science Association|access-date=March 24, 2008}}{{cite news|url=http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2003-2/issue4/ne-censored.html|title=8,000 copies of California student paper missing|date=May 26, 2003|work=The Highlander|access-date=March 21, 2008|last=Gruber|first=Grant|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213175854/http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2003-2/issue4/ne-censored.html|archive-date=February 13, 2009}} Other student news publications on campus include the Asian Community Times, Indian Time, Nuestra Cosa, Queeriosity, and the X-Factor Student Newspaper. Campus literary magazines include Mosaic, published at UCR since 1959, and Crate, published by graduate students in UCR's master's level creative writing program since 2005.{{cite web|title= Mosaic |publisher= University of California, Riverside|url=http://mosaic.ucr.edu/index.php |access-date= August 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070727113931/http://mosaic.ucr.edu/index.php|archive-date=July 27, 2007}}{{cite web|title= Crate|publisher= University of California, Riverside|url=http://crate.ucr.edu/index.html |access-date= August 22, 2007|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070818133159/http://crate.ucr.edu/index.html |archive-date= August 18, 2007}} UCR broadcasts over radio as KUCR at 88.3 FM.{{cite web|title= Kucr-fm 88.3-ie|publisher= Radiowatch.com|url=http://www.radiowatch.com/stations/fm/fm88.3-IE.html |access-date= August 22, 2007}} The station programs a variety of independent music, news and commentary.{{cite web|url=http://kucr.org/2007/09/20/about-kucr/

|title=About KUCR|access-date=February 19, 2008|last=DEX|date=September 20, 2007|publisher=KUCR}}

On-campus entertainment events are planned by a 14-member Associated Students Program Board (ASPB), comprising six student-run divisions that include concerts, films and lectures, cultural events and special events, as well as a marketing and leadership division. ASPB's major events include the Block Party Concert, Winter Soulstice, Homecoming Bonfire and Spring Splash.{{cite web|title= ASPB|publisher= University of California, Riverside|url= http://www.aspb.ucr.edu|access-date= August 22, 2007|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070703212643/http://aspb.ucr.edu/|archive-date= July 3, 2007|url-status= dead}}

The Graduate Student Association of the University of California, Riverside (GSAUCR) is ASUCR's counterpart on the graduate level. It is guided by a Graduate Student Council consisting of representatives from every department on campus. GSAUCR assesses fees required of all graduate students and uses them to fund research awards and colloquiums, conference travel grants, and speaker funds.{{cite web|title=GASUCR, About the Council|publisher=Graduate Student Association of the University of California, Riverside|url=http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/Council.html|access-date=August 23, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070721194608/http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/Council.html|archive-date=July 21, 2007}}

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UCR's varsity teams compete in the Big West Conference of NCAA Division I. Programs include men's and women's soccer, cross country, basketball, track and field, baseball, softball, tennis, golf and women's volleyball. After students voted to assess themselves $35 a quarter to fund the athletic programs in 1998, men's and women's soccer and golf were added, and the athletic department switched from NCAA Division II in 2000. While at Division II level, UCR produced 5 national championship teams in men's baseball and women's volleyball. {{as of|2006}}, UCR had produced 17 individual national champions, 175 All-Americans and many conference and regional champions. The men's golf team represented UCR in the 2004 and 2005 NCAA West Regionals after winning back-to-back Conference Championships in those respective years while having three athletes ranked in the top 100 in the country. In 2006, 2007, and 2010 the UCR women's basketball team represented the conference in the Division I tournament but lost all three times in the first round.{{cite news|last=Steele |first=Allan |title=UC Riverside has come a long way in women's basketball |url=http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_ucr_women_prev_07.3e82722.html |work=Press Enterprise |date=November 11, 2007 |access-date=January 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214111809/http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_ucr_women_prev_07.3e82722.html |archive-date=February 14, 2009}}{{cite news|url=http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_W_ucr_women_22.466fbef.html |title=Can UCR women build on success? |last=Steele |first=Alan |date=March 21, 2010 |work=Press Enterprise |access-date=March 22, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615054012/http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_W_ucr_women_22.466fbef.html |archive-date=June 15, 2010}} In December 2008, the UCR women's basketball team upset the #16-seeded Vanderbilt Commodores.{{cite news|last=Steele |first=Allan |title=UCR women upset No. 16 Vandy |url=http://www.pe.com/sports/college/local/stories/PE_Sports_Local_W_ucr_women_07.46bb515.html |work=Press Enterprise |date=December 7, 2008 |access-date=April 13, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615054001/http://www.pe.com/sports/college/local/stories/PE_Sports_Local_W_ucr_women_07.46bb515.html |archive-date=June 15, 2010}}

In 2005 the women's soccer team competed in the first round of the NCAA tournament.{{cite press release|title=UC Riverside Women's Soccer|url=http://www.athletics.ucr.edu/wsoccer/wsocarchive/ws0506archives.html|date=November 11, 2005|publisher=UCR Athletic Department|access-date=January 5, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210204918/http://www.athletics.ucr.edu/wsoccer/wsocarchive/ws0506archives.html|archive-date=December 10, 2007}} In 2007, UCR's baseball team won their first Big West championship and reached the Division I postseason for the second time since 2003, and the cross country team sent its first two athletes to the national championships.{{cite news|last=Steele |first=Allan |title=Disappointing end to memorable year for UCR baseball team |url=http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_ucr_base_05.3f2ca3f.html |work=Press Enterprise |date=June 4, 2007 |access-date=January 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615055523/http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_ucr_base_05.3f2ca3f.html |archive-date=June 15, 2010}}{{cite news|last=Steele |first=Allan |title=UCR runners struggle |url=http://www.pe.com/sports/college/local/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_locals_20.32e0a2c.html |work=Press Enterprise |date=November 19, 2007 |access-date=January 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213202440/http://www.pe.com/sports/college/local/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_locals_20.32e0a2c.html |archive-date=February 13, 2009}}

Football was played until 1975, and the team won two CCAA championships before the sport was discontinued because of low attendance and in anticipation of the impact of Title IX regulations.{{cite news|last=Alexander |first=Jim |title=UC Riverside Rediscovers Glory Days – Briefly |url=http://www.pe.com/columns/jimalexander/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_jacol24.411f3dd.html |work=Press Enterprise |date=June 24, 2007 |access-date=January 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215162551/http://www.pe.com/columns/jimalexander/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_jacol24.411f3dd.html |archive-date=February 15, 2009}}

The volleyball and basketball teams play home games in the Student Recreation Center Arena (SRC), which seats 3,168. The baseball team competes at the Riverside Sports Complex. UCR graduate Troy Percival personally built UCR's baseball clubhouse to major league quality standards.{{cite news|last=Steele |first=Allan |title=Percival gives UC Riverside edge in baseball recruiting |work=Press Enterprise |date=February 27, 2007 |url=http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_percival_ucr.1dc3b54.html |access-date=October 5, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309091424/http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_percival_ucr.1dc3b54.html |archive-date=March 9, 2007}} Softball is played at the Amy S. Harrison Field, named after a UCR graduate who donated $300,000 towards its upgrade in 2004.{{cite press release|title=UC Riverside to Dedicate Amy S. Harrison Field During Double Header|url=http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=755|publisher=University of California, Riverside|date=March 18, 2004|access-date=January 24, 2008}} Adjacent to the softball field are the soccer and track fields. The soccer field was resurfaced with artificial turf in 2007.{{cite news|last=Steele |first=Allan |title=Field of Dreams for UCR Soccer Teams |url=http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_ucr_notes_30.3e43232.html |work=Press Enterprise |date=August 29, 2007 |access-date=January 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615055533/http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_ucr_notes_30.3e43232.html |archive-date=June 15, 2010}} In 2011, the old track and field facility, which had bleachers that dated back to the 1950s and a track surface that was over 15 years old, was completely torn out and replaced with a brand new facility.{{cite news|last=Steele|first=Allan|title=UCR breaks ground on new track facility|url=http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_ucr_track_30.3eb279f.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909082155/http://www.pe.com/sports/college/ucr/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_ucr_track_30.3eb279f.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 9, 2012|work=Press Enterprise|date=June 29, 2011|access-date=August 22, 2011}}

Non-varsity student sports clubs that compete with other area universities include the Rugby Football Club, established in 2006, which plays in the Southern California Rugby Football Union.{{cite web|title= Southern California Rugby Football Union |url=http://www.scrfu.org|publisher= Southern California Rugby Union|access-date= January 30, 2008}} The karate program is provided through the UC Riverside Recreation Center's Leisure Line classes. The classes are provided by top-of-the-line USA Shotokan karate team coaches from the American JKA Karate Association, an association that has been in the city for over 40 years. It is one of the largest collegiate programs in the United States, that take competitors to local, national and international competitions. A Men's and Women's Club Soccer team also competes in the West Coast Soccer Association.{{cite web|url=http://recreation.ucr.edu/Programs/RecSportsClubs.htm|title=Rec Center – Recreation and Sports Cubs|publisher=recreation.ucr.edu|access-date=February 21, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129163123/http://recreation.ucr.edu/Programs/RecSportsClubs.htm|archive-date=January 29, 2008}}

UCR also has a boxing club called Highlander Gloves, which competes in the USIBA College National Championships. Highlander Gloves trains at a local gym named the Raincross Boxing Academy that was founded by a member of Highlander Gloves. UCR's Highlander Gloves has produced numerous national champions and consistently ranks within the top five schools in the USIBA National Championships. The club was founded by UC Riverside student Celia Miranda in partnership with Det. Mario Dorado of the Riverside Police Foundation to create a free non-profit program that provides tutoring and mentorship to at-risk students in the Riverside area. This program operates independently of the university, as the gym is located off-campus. Raincross Boxing academy has notably been the home for numerous notable fighters including World title challengers Josesito López, Chris Arreola and Ricardo Rafael Sandoval.https://raincrossboxingacademy.org/?page_id=6{{cite web | url=https://highlanderlink.ucr.edu/organization/highlandergloves | title=- HighlanderLink }}

In 1954, UCR's founding class adopted the name "Highlanders", reflecting the campus' high altitude. After the student body passed a referendum to move to Division I competition in 1998, the bear mascot, formerly called "Scotty", was professionally redesigned to look more ferocious.[http://studentlife.ucr.edu/UCRTRADITIONS/Pages/schoolSpirit.aspx UCR School Life: School Spirit – UCR's Current Mascot] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215072534/http://studentlife.ucr.edu/ucrTraditions/Pages/schoolSpirit.aspx |date=February 15, 2013}} The new mascot featured a half-blue face in homage to William Wallace, the subject of the movie Braveheart.{{cite web|title= The History of UCR's Mascot|publisher= University of California, Riverside, Department of Athletics|url= http://www.athletics.ucr.edu/administrative/mascot.html|access-date= August 22, 2007|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070808063212/http://www.athletics.ucr.edu/administrative/mascot.html|archive-date= August 8, 2007}} In line with the Scottish motif, UCR assembles a bagpipe band made up of students and staff who play at graduation and other campus events. The blue and gold tartan worn by the pipe band and the mascot is a registered trademark of the University of California.{{cite web|title= The University of California Riverside Tartan|publisher= The University of California Riverside Pipe Band|url=http://www.pipeband.ucr.edu/|access-date= August 22, 2007}} For the women's basketball team's first appearance at the NCAA Tournament in 2006, UCR sent 22 members of the pipe band to play at halftime.{{cite journal|last= Durant|first= Celeste|title= Pipe Pep|journal= Inside UCR|volume= 2|issue= 8|date= April 26, 2006|url= http://www.insideucr.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=196|access-date= August 22, 2006|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060904171500/http://www.insideucr.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=196|archive-date= September 4, 2006|url-status= dead}}

• Baseball (1977 and 1982)
• Women's Volleyball (1977 – AIAW, 1982 and 1986)
• Women's Soccer (1983) – first place in the California Collegiate Women's Soccer Conference

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More than 94,000 alumni have graduated from UCR over the course of its history.{{cite web|title= The Alumni & Visitors Center|publisher= The UCR Alumni Association|url= http://www.alumni.ucr.edu/notable|access-date= August 6, 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160105073225/http://www.alumni.ucr.edu/notable|archive-date= January 5, 2016|url-status= dead}} A {{convert|13865|sqft|m2|adj=on}} Alumni and Visitors Center was established in 2007. It is used as a central gathering place for alumni and holds several facilities for use including meeting rooms, a formal board room, a central lobby area, a library, several alumni affairs offices, and a café.{{cite web|title=UCR Alumni|url=https://www.ucr.edu/alumni/|publisher=University of California, Riverside|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120022741/http://www.ucr.edu/alumni/|archive-date=January 20, 2015}}

Some of the most notable alumni include:

• Daniel Aguirre – professional soccer player for Liga MX club Guadalajara
• Steve Breen – editorial cartoonist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (1998 and 2009){{cite web |title=Notable Alumni |url=https://alumni.ucr.edu/notable-alumni |website=Alumni |publisher=University of California, Riverside |access-date=4 July 2021 |language=en}}
• Joanna Cameron – actress and model, The Secrets of Isis
• Laurent Charlet – geochemist and professor at the University of Grenoble-Alpes
• Billy Collins – author, 11th U.S. Poet Laureate
• Sherilyn Peace Garnett, federal judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, since 2023
• Joe Kelly – professional baseball player
• Brenda Martinez – ran track & field for UCR and later represented the United States in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics for the 1500 meter track event
• Anil Raj – former Amnesty International board member and UNDP aid worker; killed in a terror attack in Kabul in November 2019{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-citizen-from-california-killed-in-afghanistan-attack/2019/11/26/bd2f6bf2-106d-11ea-924c-b34d09bbc948_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128014725/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-citizen-from-california-killed-in-afghanistan-attack/2019/11/26/bd2f6bf2-106d-11ea-924c-b34d09bbc948_story.html |archive-date=November 28, 2019|title=US citizen from California killed in Afghanistan attack|website=The Washington Post|via=The Associated Press}}{{cite news|url=https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/indian-american-undp-aid-worker-anil-raj-killed-in-afghanistan/article_b99d74b4-10a1-11ea-95e5-3360a2001e6c.html|website=India West|title=Indian American UNDP Aid Worker Anil Raj Killed in Afghanistan|date=November 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128182801/https://indiawest.com/news/global_indian/indian-american-undp-aid-worker-anil-raj-killed-in-afghanistan/article_b99d74b4-10a1-11ea-95e5-3360a2001e6c.html|archive-date=28 November 2019|url-status=dead|author-last1=Sohrabji|author-first1=Sunita}}
• Richard R. Schrock – physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
• Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry – long-distance runner
• Tim D. White – paleoanthropologist, one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2010" for his work with Lucy, one of the oldest known Hominin
• Charles E. Young – UCR's first student body president, later chancellor of UCLA

• Chris Abani – author, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• James Amrhein - Executive director of the Masonry Institute of America
• Reza Aslan – author, researcher, member of the Council on Foreign Relations
• John C. Baez – physicist, researcher focused on loop quantum gravity
• Barry Barish – physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
• Casey Charles – author
• Mike Davis – historian, MacArthur Fellows Program recipient
• Kim Yi Dionne – political scientist
• Steve Erickson – author
• John Martin Fischer – philosopher
• Edwin Gaustad – historian, president of the American Society of Church History
• Gail Hanson – physicist, Panofsky Prize recipient
• Claire Hoffman - author
• Nalo Hopkinson – author, World Fantasy Award recipient
• Anne Kernan – an Irish particle physicist
• Laila Lalami – author, American Book Awards recipient
• Perry Link – author, professor of foreign languages
• Sonja Lyubomirsky – psychologist, author of the bestseller The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want{{cite web |url=http://chass.ucr.edu/faculty_book/lyubomirsky/about_author.html |title=The How of Happiness: About the Author|access-date=June 29, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324000629/http://chass.ucr.edu/faculty_book/lyubomirsky/about_author.html|archive-date=March 24, 2012}}
• Wilbur Waldo Mayhew – biologist and founding member of the Department of Biology
• Robert Nisbet – sociologist
• Robert Rosenthal – psychologist, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient
• Richard R. Schrock – chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
• Jane Smiley – author, Pulitzer Prize recipient
• Harry Scott Smith – entomologist
• Susan Straight – author, Edgar Award recipient, MacArthur Fellows Program recipient, Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
• Karl Taube – archeologist, researcher focused on pre-Columbian civilization

• University of California Students Association
• Katherine Siva Saubel – Cahuilla people leader and scholar, received the Chancellor's Medal from UCR

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