CNAS

Opportunities Abound in CNAS

Graduate students looking to pursue an advanced degree through the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences have an opportunity to work with and learn from some of the top minds in their fields.

Taking advantage

The CNAS Advantage, our unique, diverse learning environment that crosses disciplines, provides our graduate students the chance to tailor their learning experience, to explore ideas that you never dreamed of. With the CNAS Advantage, if what you want isn't happening in this department or this lab, it's happening down the hall or in the next building over. For example:

• Professor Tom Perring in Entomology is working on creating a chemical duplicate of a moth's sex pheromone and figuring out how to spray it most effectively on date palms
• Prof. John Baez in Mathematics is researching mind-bending topologies as two-tangle surfaces embedded in four-dimensional space.
• In Biology, Professor Daphne Fairbairn is examining why females are larger than the male in some species and smaller in others.

These are just a few of the hundreds of research programs waiting for you here at UCR.

Prospective graduate students, keep reading.

Current graduate students, click here.

The Next Step

To explore further, check out the links below to see our master's and doctoral degree offerings.

Some are department based; others are interdisciplinary. Follow links to the faculty members' own laboratory pages to see what specific work they are doing and how that fits into your interests. Don't hesitate to email a professor if you have questions.

When you're ready to move forward, you can start the application process through the Graduate Division Web page.

Graduate programs

Graduate Division

The Graduate Division Web site Includes information for current and prospective students, the current Graduate Student Handbook, a listing of student services at UCR, information about the Office of Postdoctoral Students, and important publications and forms.

Graduate admission information and documents

Here you will find information about how to apply, the online application for admission, fees and financial assistance.

Resources for Graduate Students

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Affairs Center

The center provides assistance to applicants and graduate students.

Life Science teaching assistantships

For those interested in applying as a TA one of the life science departments, this site has instructions and forms.

More about life at UC Riverside and the community

• Current class schedule
• General catalog
• Library
• GROWL
• Additional graduate student resources
• City of Riverside