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When I made it to the University of California, Riverside (UCR) after years of dropping in and out of community college, working millions of jobs and letting life’s side quests take me around, I ...
Over the last four years, I’ve been extremely grateful for my time at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). At first, I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my college years, what kind of ...
Life is so funny; you can find your calling completely by accident. Every minor moment comes together to create the major picture and as I look back at my life, I know that every misstep or mistake ...
With commencement ceremonies right around the corner, one might assume that the class of 2025 is only thinking about one thing: celebrating to the fullest. But between planning parties and dreading ...
On Dec. 1, 2012, an empty plot of land behind Parking Lot 30 was transformed into what we know today as the R’Garden, or the University of California, Riverside’s (UCR) community garden. It was a ...
This past week at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), baseball’s Robert Pitts was named Athlete of the Week for the second time this year. Pitts is grateful to achieve this big ...
On May 9, 2025, Charlie Kirk, conservative right-wing media personality and founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), hosted his “The American Comeback Tour” at the University of California, Riverside ...
Partition of India: 1947 The division of British India into two independent nations was marked by the ending of British colonial rule under the 1947 Indian Independence Act. The act was set to go into ...
The dismantling of the United States (U.S.) Department of Education, ordered by the Trump administration, allows for the removal of federal funding in public schools, leaving policies up to state and ...
As part of his “The American Comeback Tour,” on Friday, conservative media commentator Charlie Kirk visited the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Hundreds of curious students, community ...
Coach Bobby Kielty is a first-year tennis coach at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) who played professional baseball for fourteen years and gradually transitioned into coaching tennis.