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UCR athletics director encourages student involvement
At last week’s ASUCR senate meeting, UCR’s athletic director Tamica Smith Jones spoke to the horseshoe about the improvements in the university’s athletic programs...
UC ramps up admissions by 15 percent
The University of California granted a total of 66,123 California high school seniors admission for the 2016-2017 academic school year, a nearly 15 percent...
ASUCR welcomes new vice president of external affairs
This week’s ASUCR meeting began with a visit from the parents of sexual assault survivor Amanda Nguyen seeking support for a Survivor’s Bill of...
Meth lab discovered in Pierce Hall
Last week, a methamphetamine lab was discovered on the second floor of Pierce Hall. The lab was brought to public eye after an explosion...
Senator Ricardo Lara speaks at UCR to discuss diversity and leadership
On Friday, March 4, 2016, California state Senator Ricardo Lara came to UC Riverside to lead “A Conversation with CA Senator Ricardo Lara: Diversity...
UC launches presidential fellowship program
On Feb. 18, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced the creation of the Presidential Public Service Fellowship program with the intent to spark...
ASUCR resolution absolves roles in last year’s controversies
Last week’s ASUCR senate meeting saw the passage of a “Resolution in Support of Upholding Due Process, Justice and Separation of Powers in the...
Muhamad Ali and Wettstein ask: Who is God?
On Wednesday, Feb. 17, about 25 people gathered at 4 p.m. in CHASS Interdisciplinary Building South (INTS) 1128 to listen to Associate Professor of...
UCR develops GPS that detects distance to centimeters
A research team at UCR within the Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) has established a computationally efficient way to increase the accuracy of location...
News in brief
Evidence of gravitational waves found
On Feb. 11, the first gravitational wave, called GW150914 by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), was detected by...