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CNAS Commencement 2025

For the CNAS Class of 2025, One Journey Ends and Another Begins

CNAS Dean Peter Atkinson had some special wisdom he wanted to impart to students making up the college’s 71st graduating class during commencement ceremonies held on June 16 at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, CA. “Science matters,” he said, “and science is never finished. Every answer leads to a new question. Every theory invites deeper...

CNAS 2024 Commencement Toyota Arena

CNAS Class of ’24 Comes Together and Stands Apart at Commencement

Every graduating class from UC Riverside is special, but many of the students comprising the College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences’ 70th Commencement ceremony hold a select status that they share with few others. Academically, they came of age during a worldwide pandemic and all the challenges that stemmed from it. The Class of 2024...
Students at Toyota Arena for 2023 CNAS Commencement

Student Commencement Speakers Encourage Class of ’23 to Dream Big

If the College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) could have offered up two graduates more representative of the deep excellence of the Class of 2023, they’d have been hard-pressed to find individuals more exemplary than Leonardo Lloyd Padilla and Anviksha Srivastava, who addressed their peers as student commencement speakers in the morning and afternoon...
CNAS 2023 Commencement Ceremony at Toyota Arena

Bold Hearts, Brilliant Minds Characterize CNAS Class of 2023 at Commencement

In her remarks, Kathryn Uhrich, Dean, College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, asked for a show of hands of students graduating with a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology. “If you look around,” she said, “we should have about 735 students raising their hands.” She added that another 74 students were graduating...
Commencement 2019: A ‘pivotal time in their lives’, image (c) UCR

A ‘pivotal time in their lives’

The University of California, Riverside’s 65th commencement will celebrate 5,857 eligible graduates. The nine ceremonies include 4,797 graduates with bachelor’s degrees; 691 with master’s degrees; 340 with doctorate degrees; and 32 with credentials.
By SANDRA BALTAZAR MARTÍNEZ | UCR News |
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