Collaborators:

Sharon Walker and Heather Smith (Program Directors)
	United States Department of Agriculture
	Riverside Community College
	University of California at Riverside

UCR Bourns College of Engineering
	National Society of Black Engineers
	Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Welcome

This is the homepage for the Building Bridges across Riverside program. The Building Bridges Across Riverside Through Water Quality Research project provides RCC students an experiential learning opportunity in cutting-edge water quality research and exposure to a four-year college experience at UCR. The intention is to motivate students to graduate from a two year institution (RCC) and transfer to a four year university (UCR) in the field of science and engineering. This directly addresses a goal of the USDA to enhance and diversify the Nation’s scientific and professional work force.

Updates:

Dr. Smith, Dr. Walker, and the Building Bridges Program are in the USDA news! See the article here.

Our research efforts have hit the airwaves! See the transcript and listen to our blurb here.

Dr. Walker and the 2007-2009 Building Bridges Program Participants Juan Lucio, Yasmine Salas, Karynn Kirby, and Melissa Reimer were in the University of California Science News. See the video and read the transcript here!

Juan Lucio, a 2007-2008 Participant in the Building Bridges Program was in the news. Check out the article in the Press Enterprise here.

Congratulations to Melissa Reimer and Karynn Kirby our 2008-2009 Bridges participants!

Pictured here are Yasmine Salas (our 2007 participant), Melissa Reimer, Dr. Smith, Dr. Walker, and Karynn Kirby.

Thank you to all of those who applied.

We hope to renew the USDA program for 2009 and beyond. Check back to this site May 2009 to apply.

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Pictured here: 2007-2008 Bridges Participants Juan Lucio and Yasmine Salas after presenting their research at the Annual UCR Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium (August 2007)