Dear Friends and Colleagues across the world and across campus,
It is my great pleasure and honor to welcome you to International Affairs at UC Riverside. We are a team of professionals dedicated to providing the highest level of service to our international and domestic partners, scholars and students. The United States is known for intellectual freedom. It welcomes collaboration from all across the globe and we are here to help facilitate international exchanges of students, scholars and ideas with partner institutions.
Our departments foster UCR’s global engagement, and our work varies in direct response to the populations we serve, be it students, faculty, visiting researchers or international collaborators. We at UCR International Affairs are here to offer advice, assistance, and guidance to help enhance UCR’s global impact through mission-driven teaching, research, and public service.
As someone who personally benefited immensely from academic institutions’ international services and resources, from being an exchange student to becoming an international student and scholar, I feel very passionate about providing the same life changing experiences to others. As much as we know how the immigration process for our international students and scholars is rewarding, we are also aware of how stressful it can be. We are dedicated to providing expedient and competent service for the immigration needs of our international students and scholars. International Affairs also offers UCR students opportunities to learn abroad while receiving credit toward their UCR degrees. We encourage all Highlanders to step out of their comfort zone and enrich their education through many study abroad programs that we provide with our partners and our faculty.
Please do not hesitate to contact us - we are looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely yours,
Marko Princevac
Vice Provost of International Affairs
Vice Provost of International Affairs, Marko Princevac
Professor Marko Princevac serves as the Vice Provost of International Affairs at the University of California, Riverside. As someone who personally benefited from academic institutions’ international services and resources, from being an exchange student to becoming an international student and scholar, he feels passionate about providing the same life-changing experiences to others. He is dedicated to encouraging students to step out of their comfort zone and enriching their education through many study abroad programs. He believes that internationalization is not something at the periphery of campus for a selected few. Instead, internationalization is a central part of academic engagement that everybody should be able to engage and benefit from.
Professor Princevac is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and his research focuses on fundamental and applied fluid mechanics, in particular, the application of fundamental turbulence concepts to studies in environmental flows and fire behavior. His approach has been to cross-fertilize field measurements with carefully designed laboratory experiments and theoretical analysis. His contributions to fire science include explanations and physical models of flame pulsation and flame tilt angle in interacting fires. His research group closely collaborates with USDA Forest Service and together they developed a state-of-the-art laboratory facility for studies of wild fires. As a natural progression of this laboratory setup, Dr. Princevac’s group developed a non-intrusive method to measure turbulence and heat fluxes ahead of the propagating frame. While studying the smoke formation and dispersion from fires, comprehensive explanations and criteria for occurrence of extremely low visibilities after prescribed burns and wildfires, known as superfog, were established.