In a faculty lecture held Friday, June 2, UCR Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Carl Cranor presented his views on toxic contaminants and the law. During the event, Cranor was presented the UCR Faculty Research Lecturer Award by Chancellor Wilcox, and gave a talk highlighting important issues pertaining to toxic contaminant regulation and consumer protection in modern society.
Cranor’s presentation, titled...
The Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) will partner with Pearson, a global education program, to create a new online masters engineering program by fall 2015. The two-year program will have nine course requirements for a total of 36 units.
Of the required courses, four will focus on engineering management, four on specializations and one on project design. Specializations will include:...
According to a schoolwide email sent Jan. 7 by Chancellor Kim Wilcox, the search to fill the position of vice chancellor for business and administrative services (BAS) has ended. Set to fill that position is current CFO and Vice Chancellor for Planning and Budget Gerry Bomotti, who had already taken the new responsibilities in the interim.
“My goals are to...
CALPIRG, a UCR student public interest activism group, kicked off their five campaigns for the 2019-2020 school year on Wednesday, Oct. 16. from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m in HUB 355. Around 30 students stopped by the event to learn more about what CALPIRG has planned for the year.
The presentation was led by Laura Caldera, the chapter chair for...
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 increase from the 57,635 admitted last year. Additionally, the acceptance rate into a UC system school showed a 9 percent improvement to 62.7 percent, up from 53.7 percent last year.
This increase in in-state enrollment...
On the night of Nov. 7 at 7:35 p.m, fourth-year sociology and ethnic studies major Terry Liu was studying for a quiz in his Oban apartment near UC Riverside when he felt a sudden jolt. Little did he know that a 2.6-magnitude earthquake had struck Loma Linda, which was followed by two aftershocks in the 1.0 to 2.0 range,...
On Nov. 18, the California State University (CSU) board of trustees voted to eliminate salary caps for new campus presidents in order to remain competitive and recruit more qualified applicants. This move was preceded by an approval the day to request $103 million more in-state funds than allocated to the university for the next fiscal year.
The vote was passed...
Hundreds of UCR students flocked around the Bell Tower and the Hub Plaza on Thursday, Oct. 22 to usher in the return of UCR’s bi-annual food truck festival.
The series of festivals began in 2012 when a student approached the ASUCR Senate with the idea of temporarily bringing large amounts of food trucks onto the UCR campus in order to...
Incumbent Richard Roth (D-Riverside) has won a seat on the California senate as a representative of Riverside County’s 31st District, with a victory over Richard Brent Reed (R-Riverside).
As part of his campaign to
improve California’s access to physicians, Roth has fought to get UC Riverside its school of medicine and also assisted in the push to bring the Air Resources...
Famed economist Richard Wolff gave a 90-minute talk about Marxism to UC Riverside students and community members this past Thursday.
“Maybe the U.S. can do better than capitalism,” Wolff argued throughout his talk, calling the economic system one of gross inequality. Throughout the speech, Wolff consistently drove home the point that terms such as capitalism and socialism should be studied...