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Graduate Division – Quality, Diversity, Opportunity
The graduate programs offered by the University of California, Riverside attract some of the great minds in the sciences and arts, incubating new ideas, contributing to the local quality of life and educating the future leaders of California. UC Riverside is a place where bold ideas flourish, where people from different walks of life come together to pursue their interests and their dreams. The University offers its students and faculty the support, resources and inspiration to explore, discover and contribute new knowledge and the opportunity to go on to lead fulfilling, relevant careers and rewarding lives as citizens and leaders.
Get Your Graduate Career Started
UC Riverside has dozens of graduate degree programs. Get started by searching our list of programs to find the one that suits your interests. Then apply for admission!
New Graduate Degrees
The campus has just been approved to offer three new graduate degrees: the Master of Science in Computer Engineering; the on-line Master of Science in Engineering; and the MPAc in Accounting. All will begin in Fall 2012.
Awards in Bioengineering
Chris Kieslich, PhD student in Bioengineering, has been named Outstanding Engineering Student for 2012 by the Orange County Engineering Council for his work on the development of a computational framework for the analysis of electrostatic properties of proteins. He received the award February 23, 2012.
Students Help Develop App that Protects Facebook from Hackers
Two University of California, Riverside graduate students and a company run by an alumnus of the school have partnered to develop a free Facebook application that detects spam and malware posted on users' walls and news feeds. Md Sazzadur Rahman and Ting-Kai Huang, both Ph.D. students in computer science at the Bourns College of Engineering, created MyPageKeeper.org to provide real-time protection from viruses and phishing and spam campaigns for the 700 million users of Facebook. They did so in conjunction with StopTheHacker.com, a web protection service founded in 2009 by Anirban Banerjee, who received his Ph.D. in 2008 from UC Riverside, and Michalis Faloutsos, a professor of computer science and engineering at the university. Faloutsos and Harsha Madhyastha, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering, are advising the two Ph.D. students.
Dissertation Mentor Award Winners
The 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award has been given to Dr. Rajiv Gupta, Computer Science & Engineering, and Dr. Michel Lapidus, Mathematics Department, for their outstanding contributions to the training of advanced graduate students.
Chemistry Students Win Silver Awards
Two PhD students, Zhenda Lu and Qiao Zhang, have won Silver Awards given out by the Materials Research Society. Lu and Zhang are both students in the lab of Dr. Yadong Yin. The awards were given for "their academic achievements and current materials research, which exhibit a high level of excellence and distinction." For more information see the article written in UCR Today.
An Anthropologist on Everest
UCR graduate student, Young Hoon Oh, will attempt to summit Mt. Everest this Spring as part of his research on the communities that mountaineers create. It will also focus on Sherpa society and how it has changed as a result of assisting international climbers. A native of Korea Oh previously climbed Mt. Everest in 2006. You can follow Young at 7mmrope.blogspot.com (Anthropologist in Himalaya) on his climb in May. He will carry a UCR pennant to the summit. For more information see the article written in UCR Today.
Graduate Deans Hosts Local Science Competition
Joe Childers, Dean, Graduate Division hosted a local science competition on campus March 3. Hundreds of local middle school and high school students participated and UCR faculty and local science teachers judged the projects. Students were given t-shirts that read "Aaahaa! I am a Proud Future PhD Student" For more information see UCR Today.
Summer Institute
Brad Franklin and Jingjing Wang, fourth year Ph.D. students in Environmental Economics, were selected to participate in the 2011 Summer Institute on Computational Economics at the University of Chicago. This prestigious institute selects graduate students from across the country, many from the top economics programs, who are working to solve economic problems using advanced computational methods. UCR was well-represented this year as typically only one or two students are selected from any single campus.
National Science Foundation Fellows
19 UCR students received the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships; 17 of these students are either currently enrolled in UCR graduate programs or will enroll in the fall; 18 students received "honorable mention." In comparison, last year the campus received 8 awards and 6 honorable mentions; in 2009, the campus received only 1 award. These are very prestigious and generous fellowships. Students will receive $30,000 in stipend and $10,500 toward tuition each year for three years. The total value of the awards for the 17 students who will take their graduate degrees at UCR is 2.065 million dollars.
Bioengineering Students Win First Place Awards
Prashanti Vandrangi and Ronald Gorham both received first place awards at the 11th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium held on June 17-19 at UC Davis. Prashanthi, a member of Professor Victor Rodgers' group, received Outstanding Oral Presentation Award in Modeling and Bioinformatics for her presentation entitled "Mechantransduction vs. Mass Transfer, Revisited: The Debate for Dominance in Endothelial Flow-Dependent Signaling". Ronald, a member of Professor Dimitri Morikis' group, received the 1st Place Poster Award for his work on "Calculation of Free Energy of Protein Association Using Poisson-Boltzmann Electrostatics: Validation with Experimental Kinetic Data".