The Top: 18 Memorable UCR Graduation Caps Through the Years
UCR Highlanders express their creativity and personality through their graduation caps at Commencement throughout the years. Here are our favorites!
Welcome to The Top!
Each issue, we present a list of UCR staff and faculty favorites — from walking spots to gardens to events.
This week, we are featuring the most memorable mortarboards from past UCR commencement ceremonies. Hopefully, these will get you excited for our 61st commencement, with seven ceremonies spanning four days from Friday, June 12 to Monday, June 15!
If you have a favorite spot you’d like featured or an activity you’d like to share, email lille.bose@ucr.edu.
On the Job (Hunt)

Graduation is an opportunity to get your name out there! (2010 BCOE Graduation)Photo by: Don Davidson
Showcasing Highlander Pride
Whose Side? R’SIDE!
Wanderlusters
… and Explorers
Up, up and away!
For the Ballers
Slam Dunkin’ Graduation Caps!
I Graduated from SoBA
Let’s get down to business!
Digging Deep
Jurassic Park…graduation style!
Making Music
Forte: noun \ˈfȯr-tē\
1. one’s strong point
2. a musical passage performed or marked to be performed loudly
Positively Charged
A Graduation Cap in its Element.

This student wanted to remember the late nights memorizing chemical structures. (2014 CNAS Commencement)
Thank You for Your Service
U.S. Marines: The Brave, The Few, The Proud
Heritage Sighting
Royally Glad to be Graduating
It’s Greener on the Other Side
UCR “grows” you as a student.
Caps for Dreamers
Keep on dreaming!
Helping Parents Find You
“[Insert name here] is here.”
For the First-Generation Students
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