Education

Christopher S. Lynch has been named dean of the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Lynch, currently chair of the UCLA  Samueli School of Engineering’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, will take over Sept. 1, according to a statement in UC Riverside’s website. Lynch joined the …

Several of Cal State University San Bernardino’s graduate programs have been ranked among the best in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. The school’s part-time master’s in business administration program, which is part of the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration, ranked 133rd out …

The University of California, Riverside will open a business-assistance facility in downtown Riverside that will help people in technology-driven fields. Located at 3403 10th St., the EPIC Small Business Development Center is scheduled to open at 11 a.m. Tuesday with an open house and launch ceremony, according to a statement. …

The Mt. San Jacinto Community College District has bought two office buildings in Temecula that it will use for expansion. Both structures at 41888 Motorcar Parkway, cover 350,000 square feet, the size of all the buildings at Mt. San Jacinto’s Menifee Valley campus, according to a statement on the school’s …

The University of Redlands ranks fourth among small schools on the Peace Corps’ 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. Fourteen Redlands’ alumni are serving with the Peace Corps around the world, one volunteer below St. Lawrence University in New York and tied with five other small colleges and universities, …

UC Riverside is scheduled to hold its fourth annual solar conference Thursday. The one-day event – Past, Present and its Future in Inland Southern California – will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bourns Technology Center, 1200 Columbia Ave., according to a statement. Karen Douglas, head …