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<font color="#003da5"><span style="font-size:20px"><strong>UCR's musical ambassador for the erhu</strong></span></font>
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<a href="https://ucr.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=16b960a15758a2e9f6cc8140d&id=8be1daa290&e=ddbc6f2e45" style="color:#f4002b;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Performed at the chancellor's inauguration ››</a></p>
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<p style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#485057;line-height:150%;text-align:left">The UCR Library has posted nearly 2,000 new photographs from science fiction fandom history from the 1950s to 1980s and has about 57,000 more that it is working on.</p>
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<p style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#485057;line-height:150%;text-align:left">More than 8,500 students attended the 2026 Spring Splash concert, its largest attendance since the annual event returned after COVID.</p>
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