UC Riverside and Korea Institute of Materials Science partner to form new research center
By: Evan Ismail, Senior Staff Writer
UC Riverside and the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) in Changwon, South Korea have partnered to establish a new research center to develop new, environmentally friendly materials such as plastics and ceramics.
KIMS is a research institute funded by the Korean...
UCR establishes partnership to work toward fighting citrus disease
UCR and the California Citrus Research Foundation launched a partnership on Monday, June 6, setting forth plans toward constructing a building that will support researchers in their fight against citrus greening disease. This partnership has been formed to help protect the $3.3 billion citrus industry from citrus greening disease, scientifically known...
Study shows pollution killing off indigenous species in the Inland Empire
UCR Professor of Plant Ecology Edith Allen conducted a study displaying how high levels of nitrogen deposition caused by pollution have significantly decreased the number of native plant species and checkerspot butterfly populations in the Inland Empire. The researcher has published these findings in the Proceedings of the National...
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi was put on administrative leave on Wednesday, March 27 due to an investigation into allegations that she used her role as chancellor to help family members with jobs, misappropriated student funds and potentially lied about statements regarding an incident where students were pepper-sprayed by campus police back in 2011.
In a petition, over 400 faculty...
Psychology professor finds that children learn better from “clever” characters
UCR Psychology Professor Rebekah Richert was one of the researchers involved in a study that found that preschool-aged children are more likely to grasp new information from a television show if the character displays a sense of knowledge. This study aimed to discover whether children’s perception of a character impacted...
UCR library receives $100,000 grant to work toward diversifying U.S. digital history
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded the UCR Library with a National Leadership Grant totaling $100,000 that the library will use to fund a project entitled “Diversifying the Digital Historical Record: Integrating Community Archives in National Strategies for Access to Cultural Heritage.” The library...
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Here are some of the key topics discussed at the senate meeting held Wednesday, Oct. 12:
-2015-2016 CHASS Senator Casey Thielhart spoke during public forum and provided context on the judicial appointment of Samanta Fuentes during an unofficial emergency meeting held during the last school year, as a response to an executive order made by ASUCR President Shafi Karim. This...
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The first ASUCR senate meeting of winter quarter commenced at 6:21 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, and saw the passage of amendments to a senate bill.
During public forum, second-year public policy major Julia Schemmer announced a campaign that she has been working on in the face of an impending $282 tuition increase through a campaign titled, “Fund the UC,”...
UCR philosophy professor Eric Schwitzgebel will give a lecture entitled, “Living Up to Our Own Norms,” on Tuesday, May 10 in HUB 265 at 1 p.m. The discussion will discuss whether professional ethicists — who are entrusted to uphold social norms — are any more ethical than the average person who is not an ethicist.
Schwitzgebel has been a professor...
Dean Reza Abbaschian of the Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) recently announced that he will be stepping down from his position at the end of the school year. In an interview with the Press Enterprise, Abbaschian did not elaborate further when he said that he was leaving because his goals and Chancellor Kim Wilcox’ were “kind of different.” By...