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Have career goals. Will travel.

Sarah Nightingale — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Recent graduates Jacqueline Aguirre De La O and Kathy Chacon are representing UCR, Latina women, and the Inland Empire on their international career journeys.

Endowed gift will broaden the horizon for UCR students

Sarah Nightingale — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0800

A $2 million gift from the Pollitt family will fund scholarships that support study abroad opportunities.

Fundraising effort seeks to aid at-risk Afghan scholars

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700

Public donations will help scholars fleeing from danger, offer them safety .

Eleven students awarded study-abroad scholarships

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0700

Eleven UC Riverside students have been selected for two prestigious national scholarships to study or intern outside of the United States.

Meet the 2021 Goldwater, Fulbright scholars

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0700

Goldwater scholars Shayan Saeed and Ryan Gates; and U.S. Fulbright scholars Jacqueline Aguirre de la O and Zehra Qazi are recipients of two of the nation’s most prestigious awards. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship is one of the country’s most competitive honors in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, or STEM. The application process is rigorous and asks students to think deeply about their research and long-term goals.

Virtual program links students around the globe

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0800

UC Riverside’s International Affairs shifted into a nearly 24/7 operation earlier this year, especially in its efforts to recruit new international students. The team spent thousands of hours redesigning programs for virtual platforms — all made accessible to students in the United States and around the world.

Graduation with a global perspective

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0700

An international education was key for these UCR students’ futures.

Here are the many ways UCR is helping students right now

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0700

A list of available resources during this time of uncertainty.

Australia enables UCR to dig into Earth’s wild past

Jules Bernstein — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0700

Australian officials signed an agreement last night allowing UC Riverside to continue its pioneering research on a government-owned goldmine for unusual fossils. Nilpena Station is a city-sized plot of land in the Australian Outback. It harbors the richest collection on Earth of animal species around 550 million years old. Some of its fossil beds are the size of a tennis court and contain entire communities of organisms.