Erica Garcia Silva ’23 graduated last June from UC Riverside with a degree in Biology, and plans on taking a gap year before enrolling in medical school…also, ideally, at UC Riverside. “I want more clinical experience, so I am volunteering at Glendale Adventist Medical Center as a COPE Health Scholar,” she says. Erica is also...
With the beginning of the Fall 2023 quarter, we wanted to introduce you to the 2023-2024 College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) department chairs: Biochemistry Xuan Liu Professor & Chair Botany & Plant Sciences Patricia Springer Professor of Genetics & Chair Chemistry Leonard Mueller Professor & Chair Check out my lab Earth & Planetary...
RIVERSIDE, CA - Hundreds of visitors flocked to UC Riverside last Saturday for an annular solar eclipse viewing party hosted by the College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences' (CNAS) Physics & Astronomy department. Unlike a total eclipse, an annular eclipse in one in which the moon does not cover the entire disc of the sun...
Melissa Arellano, her first name translating to "honey bee" in Greek, signifies the impact of research experiences on students' academic paths. As a 4th-year Environmental Science major that transferred from City College of San Francisco, Melissa found her passion for bees through the Summer RISE program at the University of California, Riverside. Melissa is in...
Jared Hudnall '24, a physics major at the College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside, spent his summer abroad doing research in Italy. We asked Jared a few questions about his experiences: (Part 1 of 5) What research topic are you working on and where? I'm working at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran...
RIVERSIDE, CA - The University of California, Riverside (UCR) officially kicked off its Research in Science & Engineering (RISE) program today, with 97 students attending the 2023 research cohort orientation. Established at UCR in 2010, RISE is a 10-week program designed for rising sophomores, juniors, incoming transfers, and seniors. Participants work under the supervision of...
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...
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...
Jordan Guillory's first research paper as a community college student in San Diego was quite literally a star-studded affair. "We were studying double stars and attempting to calculate their orbits," he remembers. "I had a lot of opportunities to get involved in research early on, and that's what really got me involved in the research...
The STEM Connections Program at the UCR College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) provides crucial support and advancement opportunities to undergraduates pursuing degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). “Simply put, the goal of STEM Connections is to help students transfer, transition, and thrive at UC Riverside,” says Elizabeth Jimenez...
