UCR Extension Center houses local healthcare workers during pandemic
As the battle against COVID-19 wages on, healthcare workers from all parts of the country continue to express fear over unintentionally spreading the potentially fatal virus to those around them. It is not uncommon...
UCR students talk voting in the upcoming election
Voting season is now in full swing, and those registered to vote in California should have received, or will soon be receiving, their mail-in ballots. The official election day and deadline to vote in...
UCR’s School of Medicine expands on its research on stuttering
UCR’s School of Medicine is partnering with Emalex Biosciences in producing a biological treatment for stuttering and will lead the second phase of clinical trials.
UCR will serve as the lead site for a Phase...
UCR’s regains federal designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution
At the beginning of 2020, UCR lost its designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution after a filing omission occurred under UCR’s Office of Planning, Budget and Administration that caused them to miss the filing deadline...
Highlander Newsroom 01/07/15
This week on the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about what we did over winter break and what our plans are for the new year. We also discuss two newly enacted California laws, the "yes...
Highlander Newsroom (5/4/16)
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about Ted Cruz dropping out of the presidential race, the BCOE dean stepping down, graduation, the death of activist and mother of Tupac Afeni Shakur and...
UC regents dismiss UC Riverside professor
During last week’s UC regent meetings held at UC Riverside, the UC regents voted in a closed session to dismiss Sarkis Joseph Khoury, a tenured finance professor at UC Riverside’s A. Gary Anderson Graduate...
Occupy members remove encampment
Members of Occupy UC Riverside have disbanded their tent encampment within a week of Chancellor White’s call for the removal of the tents. The tents, which were initially located next to the Bell Tower...
ASUCR Senators’ participation in conference questioned
During the public forum portion of ASUCR’s April 4 senate meeting, UCR student and UCSA external affairs committee member David Castillo read a letter which implicated ASUCR senators Esther Hwang and Albert Yum for...
News in Brief
Nine arrested at Occupy protest near UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley officers arrested nine protesters for unlawful assembly and for remaining on UC-owned farmland after dispersal orders were given. The protesters had begun their occupation of...