General
Departments / Centers
People
Systems
Acronyms
100

The number of departments in CNAS.

What is 13?

100

This center’s mission is to assist in the conservation and restoration of species and ecosystems.

What is the Center for Conservation Biology (CCB)?

100

The administrative head of a college or school who is responsible for providing academic leadership.

Who is the Dean?

100

The online system used by academics to enter/update their data when submitting an academic review file.

What is eFile/eFilePlus?

100

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

What is CNAS?

200

This citrusy fruit is home grown to UCR.

What are Cuties?

200

The mission of the __ is to advance the stem cell field by fostering basic and translational research and engaging in education and outreach.

What is the STEM Cell Center?

200

This person independently prepares travel-related purchase orders and entertainment reimbursements for Faculty, Academics, etc.

Who is the Travel Coordinator?

200

A cloud-based suite of research modules used for proposals, funding administration, and documentation across various departments.

What is Kuali?

200

Submit this for an expenditure adjustment.

What is a Salary Cost Transfer (SCT)?

300

This graceful structure, built for the Citrus Research Center, became the nucleus of the UCR campus.

What is the Citrus Experiment Station?

300

The ___ of UC Riverside administers five major reserves that have research facilities and permanent staff.

What is the UCR Natural Reserves (NRS)?

300

This team handles all of CNAS UCPath transactions when it comes to incoming faculty, staff, or student appointments.

Who is Payroll?

300

An online system that allows users to make travel arrangements, submit travel expense reports, and reconcile T&E Card transactions.

What is Concur?

300

The administrative unit for the Botanic Gardens and the Departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Sciences; they’re also winged insects that make honey.

What is BEES?

400

The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences took its current name and structure in ____.

What is 1974?

400

UCR specimens and records are used by academic researchers and other individuals involved with plants as a business, research topic, management concern, or just a personal interest.

What is the Herbarium?

400

Students go to this person as their unofficial guidance counselor, cheerleader, and for overall support to help them navigate their academic goals.

Who is a Student Advisor?

400

A web-based tool developed in the College designed to accept the approved/authorized personnel changes for payroll processing in UCPath.

What is Snapshot?

400

UC’s Retirement Administration Service Center.

What is RASC?

500

This person served as the first Dean in CNAS.

Who is Alfred M. Boyce?

500

The ____ is a campus wide facility housed in the Department of Chemistry and consists of four components:Mass Spectrometry, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy, Optical Spectroscopy and X-ray Crystallography.

What is the Analytical Chemistry Instrumentation Facility (ACIF)?

500

Need systems access? Keys to the building? Questions about space? Start with this person.

Who is the Financial Administrative Officer (FAO)?

500

Campus system used to pull reports that show fund budget, expense, encumbrance, and balance details.

What is Oracle (Financials?)

500

Not just precipitation, this is also used by UCR Police and Campus Safety as a reminder on how to respond in an active shooter situation.

What is Respond, Assess, Isolate, Notify (RAIN)?


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