After months of planning and preparation for the event, the first annual Food Truck Festival will take place Wednesday May 15. Proposed by Ambassador of Student United Way (SUW) Elliot Thompson in late October 2012, the project has since become [...]

UC Riverside is pursuing the acquisition of an 11-acre land in the city of Palm Desert as a residency location for medical students. The Oversight Board of the Palm Desert Successor Agency and California Department of Finance had unanimously voted [...]

The Council of the Chancellors has supported the recommendations made by the UC Student Insurance Program (SHIP) Advisory Council in making the decisions regarding whether each campus will opt out or stay in the systemwide health care plan. UC Riverside [...]

David Stewart, the former dean of UC Riverside’s School of Business Administration recently filed a lawsuit against the university, accusing UCR and of “misallocating and misusing the professional degree fees” of students. According to Stewart, the ordeal began after he [...]

Attempted sexual assault near West Linden Street A woman reported an attempted rape in the laundry room at her apartment on Tripoli Street to the Riverside Police Department (RPD). Located near the Grace Methodist Church on West Linden Street, the [...]

Barely meeting quorum with a total attendance of eight senators—the other half of the senate was partially excused to attend to other club obligations—ASUCR held its fifth meeting of the quarter on May 1. Speakers included Students for Justice in [...]

UC Riverside: Voter expectations tied to disappointment UCR Assistant Professor of Psychology Kate Sweeney and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University Zlatan Krizan have collaborated on a study that explores the dimensions of voter expectations, confidence and disappointment. [...]

UCR: BCOE students participate the most in faculty-mentored research Approximately 12.5 percent of the undergraduate student body participated in faculty-mentored research during the 2011-2012 school year, according to a study conducted by UCR Office of Undergraduate Education (UE). The results [...]

The UC preliminary freshman admissions data for the fall of the 2013-2014 school year was released on the morning of April 18. The acceptance rate for the fall applicants has surpassed previous records with an outstanding 82,850 incoming students. While [...]

In a recent college survey conducted by Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University in the Netherlands, UCR ranked No. 36 in overall performance among the world’s top 500 universities. UCR’s natural science and engineering departments placed [...]