The 4th Annual Health, Well-being & Safety (HWS) Fall Resource Fair is less than a week away! This year’s event takes place Tuesday, November 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bell Tower! Join Scotty and fellow Highlanders for food and fun. Free burgers and wings for the first 350 students.

🎉 Huge congrats to Dr. Christina Schwenkel on her new book, “Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi”! 📚 Dive into how Vietnam used sound as a powerful tool for public health during COVID-19. Check it out! https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/10/22/vietnams-sound-decision

Building community one connection at a time in the CHASS LLC 🍎 🏡✨ #UCRHousing #CHASSLife #choosechass #ucrchass

Dr. Kevin McClure in conversation with CHASS faculty on cultivating a supportive campus culture at UC Riverside with intention and purpose. Kevin will be presenting again tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. at the Alumni & Visitors Center, and the event is open to everyone on campus. RSVP -- LINK IN BIO

Join us Oct 23 • 3:30 PM • HMNSS 1500 for Dr. Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez: “AI and the Future of Digital Databases on Slavery.” Discover how artificial intelligence is reshaping access to centuries-old archives and uncovering stories once hidden in the data. Free & open to all 🌍

What if college felt more caring—for everyone? 💛 Join us Oct 22 @ 4–6 PM for Kevin McClure: The Caring University — a convo on how campuses can help us all thrive 🌱 Free dinner + book signing 🍽️📚 RSVP 👉 events.ucr.edu/event/kevin-mcclure-the-caring-university #UCR #choosechass #ucrchass

Highlanders vote! Register to vote by Oct. 20 Voting by mail? Drop your completed ballot at the UCR Student Health & Counseling Center. Now - Oct 31: 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Nov 1-3: 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Election Day, Nov 4: 6 a.m.–9:30 p.m. vote.ucr.edu

🌌 Join us at UCR on Oct 17 for Dr. Kate Scholberg's lecture "How to see a star explode from underground"! Reception at 5 PM, Lecture at 6 PM. Free & open to all! 🚀✨ #UCR #CosmologyLecture https://events.ucr.edu/event/frontiers-of-cosmology-lecture-fall-2025

Thank you to all the wonderful UC Riverside community members who joined us last Wednesday for Palabra y Poder: Sandra Cisneros in Conversation. We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did!

4QS Week 1 with Smog Fowler-Hurst Join us on Fri & Sat., Oct. 24-25 at 7:30pm in the Performance Lab (ARTS 166) for 4QS Week 1 with Smog Fowler-Hurst FREE and open to the public LINK IN BIO https://events.ucr.edu/event/4qs-week-1-with-smog-fowler-hurst

Week one is done! 🎉 Don’t you just love these UCR donkey cookies? 🫏🍪 Dean Daryle Williams welcomed new several new CHASS faculty and staff to the Highlander family, and celebrated the start of a new fall quarter with all the returning employees. 🍂

NORRI (놀이: Play) tickets are now on sale! An evening of dance performance choreographed by DaEun Jung, at UC Riverside for two nights only on Nov. 7 & 8. Tickets & info: performingarts.ucr.edu

Join Us on October 24 at the Culver Center for the Latinxs & the Environment Conference Environmental Research and Social Change - Connecting the Latino Community with Future Generations https://latinxsenv.ucr.edu/2025-lei-conference

First week of class is in the bag 💼 who’s cooked this quarter? #College #ucr #ucrchass #choosechass #ucriverside

🎉✨ Exciting news for our community! Join us for *NORRI (놀이: Play)*, a mesmerizing fusion of classical Korean dance, pansori, and electronic beats, choreographed by the talented DaEun Jung! 📅 Dates: November 7th & 8th 🕗 Time: 8 PM 📍 Location: University Theater

Join us for an opportunity for our students to meet and learn about the Pre-Law Clubs and the Pre-Law Advisor here at UCR.

An Evening with celebrated Latinx writer Sandra Cisneros “Palabra y Poder” brings groundbreaking author to UC Riverside on Oct. 8 READ MORE https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/09/30/evening-celebrated-latinx-writer-sandra-cisneros LINK IN BIO

Scotty Strong! 💪 Join us today in front of Hinderaker for the final day of our CHASS Welcome Week festivities 🥳 from 11am - 2pm! Free t-shirts to the first 50 people, popsicles, and lots of other fun swag from all of our campus partners. Meet your advisors and grab a selfie with Scotty! 🤳🐻💙

Ready to launch your career in the nation's capital? Don't just read about your future, go live it! Find out more at our info session on September 29th and 30th at 3:30 pm in the Student Services Building (SSB) 2nd Floor. Register Today: https://monkeylink.co/d52114

✨ Fall Quarter kickoff = CHASS style! ✨ Free tees (first 50), DJ, ice cream & Scotty selfies 🐻🍦 📍 Mon 9/29 | Watkins Walkway | 11–2 📍 Tue 9/30 | Hinderaker Courtyard | 11–2 📍 Wed 10/1 | Arts Building Walkway | 11–2 Pull up + vibe with us 💛💙 #choosechass #ucrchass

🎭✨ A throwback to our captivating winter 2025 performances of Macbeth by @ucrtfdp ! Don't miss our upcoming shows—more theatrical magic is on the way! #ucrperforms #ucrtfdp

✨🌟 Throwback to an unforgettable night at "UCR is Dancing: ALL TOGETHER AND ONE"! 🎉💃 Dance students poured their hearts into original choreographies that showcased their unique stories and backgrounds. 🎭❤️

🎉 CHASS Fall Kickoff = vibes + free stuff 👕🍦 DJ, ice cream, Scotty selfies + more 🐻✨ Mon 9/29 | Tue 9/30 | Wed 10/1 → 11–2pm Don’t miss it 💛 #choosechass #ucrchass

Hey Highlanders! 🎉 Let’s kick off fall quarter with CHASS! Join us for FREE t-shirts (first 50!), a DJ, ice cream, selfies with Scotty, and advisor chats. When: 📅 9/29 @ Watkins Walkway 📅 9/30 @ Hinderaker Courtyard 📅 10/1 @ Arts Building Walkway 🕚 11 AM - 2 PM Don’t miss out! See you there!

CHASS showed up and showed out at Women’s Soccer night—what a way to celebrate our Highlanders! 💙 #ucr #womenssoccer #riverside

🎉 Exciting news, CHASS community! 🎉 Our very own John Franchak and his team are embarking on an amazing research project to explore how infants develop their motor skills using cutting-edge wearable sensors and AI. 🤖👶 https://monkeylink.co/9654ff

CHASS Peer Academic Advisors can assist with general registration questions and troubleshooting, referrals to campus resources, help with enrollment adjustment forms, and general peer mentorship! https://chassstudentaffairs.ucr.edu/meet-our-staff/peer-advisors

CHASS Peer Academic Advisors help their fellow students with academic concerns, and questions, and connect them with academic advisors for further support and advising services. Check it out: https://chass.ucr.edu/press/2024/01/09/chass-elevates-student-support-expanded-peer-advising-program

Special thanks to Dean Williams of @ucrchass.bsky.social and Dean Long of SPP for supporting the program. It’s an honor to serve both on the fellowship’s advisory and executive committees. It’s also a special privilege to have a number of my past and present students serve as fellows this summer.

Ivy Pochoda, Crime Writer and Squash Champ, Adds Horror to Her Résumé The award-winning mystery novelist’s new book, “Ecstasy,” is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides’ play “The Bacchae.” Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/books/review/ivy-pochoda-ecstasy-profile.html

Join us in congratulating Rachel Wu, associate professor of psychology, on being elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the USA! https://bit.ly/rachel-wu-apa LINK IN BIO

Enjoy this recap of the 2024-2025 season with the UCR Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Combo! Interested in joining? Learn more: https://music.ucr.edu/jazz-ensemble 📸 Dennis Cha & Lyndsey Rankin 🎥 Lyndsey Rankin

Come sing with us! UCR's two choirs welcome students, staff and faculty. Chorale is open to all who love to sing, no audition required; Chamber Singers requires music-reading background and has an audition. Learn more: https://bit.ly/UCRChoirsInfo 📸 Dennis Cha & Lyndsey Rankin

CatVideoFest returns to UCR ARTS with its 2025 edition! A compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos from unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. Proceeds benefit a cat-focused charity. https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/catvideofest-2025/

Please join us in congratulating Christopher Scott Murillo (Assistant Professor, TFDP) for being named Scenic Designer of the Year by Stage Scene LA!

The Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California (CRIISC) and the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at UC Riverside (YOK Center) announce a new exhibition: Building Our Region’s Korean Communities. The exhibition will open July 24, 2025 at CRIISC from 6-8 PM.

Enjoy this photo recap of the 2024-2025 performing season by the UCR Orchestra! 🎼 Want to join? 🥁🎷 Auditions are open to students, faculty, staff, and external community members! Info: http://bit.ly/UCROrchAuditions2025-26 Interest List: http://bit.ly/UCROrchInterestForm2025-26 LINKS IN BIO

Research of CHASS' own Kevin Shih (associate professor, Economics) informing the timely conversation on international graduate students and the US workforce at the Reimagining STEMM Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Career Development: A Summit in Washington, DC

We went around and asked current Highlanders why they chose UCR, here's what they had to say ➡️🎤 Why did you choose UCR? 💙🐻 🎥Mckenna Bridgewater #UCR #UCRIVERSIDE #CHASS #HIGHLANDERS #TRANSFERDAY #ORIENTATION #COLLEGE #CHOOSECHASS

A look back at this year's UCR Wind Ensemble photos 📸 from the 2024-2025 concert season! 🎼 Interested in joining? Auditions are coming up soon! 🎺 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3GZpM5V Sign up: https://bit.ly/44JwHcM LINKS IN BIO

Opening remarks. Reimagining STEMM Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Career Development: A Summit Washington, DC

We asked some current Highlanders to give some advice to our incoming students... Here's what they had to say ➡️🎤 What advice would you give to incoming Highlanders? 🐻💙 🎥Matt Mejia & Mckenna Bridgewater

Dean Daryle Williams joins eight liberal studies students in Times Square for dinner and a Broadway show, "Hell's Kitchen." All eight are interns at the Columbia School of Professional Studies.

BPSC 21: California's Cornucopia is a Summer Session B course that takes you on an interdisciplinary journey through the science, history, and ethics of California agriculture. Sign up now for BPSC 021 to learn more about the food you eat!

Seven Liberal Studies students are interning in the summer pre-college program at the Columbia School of Professional Studies (SPS), led by Rollie Carencia (Political Science, 2010), Executive Director of Student Life.

Summer 2025: CHASS majors make their mark on DC Pictured (left to right): Daryle Williams, CHASS Dean Rhea Shettigar (Political Science 2026): Osgood Center Neida Zamora (Political Science 2026): Gen-Z Emerging Technology Action (ZETA) (continued)

Por Tupsmaphan (TFDP 2026) makes their mark on the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Please join us in congratulating Psychology Chair Tuppet Yates who received the Bowlby‐Ainsworth Award for Developmental Research on Attachment and Trauma and for Mentoring in the Bowlby‐Ainsworth Tradition.

Favorite #ucr memories from more of R’students (Last one!) #chassgrad2025 #ucrgrad2025 #ucriverside #rside #classof2025 #ucrmemories #classof2025

The Virtual Stage: Macbeth A filmed performance of last winter's acclaimed production from the Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production July 16, 2025, 7 p.m. PDT Online Ticket provides unlimited access to viewing for 24-hours https://events.ucr.edu/event/the-virtual-stage-macbeth