
June 24, 2025
Highlights from UCR’s 71st Commencement
UC Riverside concluded its 71st Commencement season on June 17, with UCR’s Class of 2025 walking at eight discipline- or degree-based ceremonies.
Approximately 6,100 graduates, 35,000 in-person guests, 32,000 online streamers, and about 375 volunteer staff participated in the celebrations, which started on June 6.
Highlanders belonging to specific groups also took part in additional micro celebrations organized by various student resources like the University Honors Cording, and year-end celebrations hosted by UCR’s ethnic and gender centers.

June 11, 2025
How did supermassive black holes form in the early universe?
John Templeton Foundation grant to UCR will support research by physicist Hai-Bo Yu

June 11, 2025
Physicist recognized for contributions to cosmic ray physics
Barry Barish will receive the IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award in July

May 09, 2025
Physicist elected member of American Philosophical Society
Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society

April 30, 2025
School of Medicine server room at the heart of UCR research
High-powered computers relocated to SOM Ed 1 will benefit research across campus

April 23, 2025
UCR physicist’s work featured in popular quantum course
Umar Mohideen’s image from Casimir effect experiment will appear in Spanish version of a show on quantum mechanics

April 23, 2025
Chemistry Ph.D. students to represent UCR at Nobel Laureate meeting
Ashley Pimentel and Ting Zhao encourage fellow students to pursue opportunities.

April 15, 2025
Tim Lyons’ geochemistry award continues lineage of legends
Greatness runs in the lab.