The Project Moving Forward language program received a $2.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education and a Model of Excellence award from the Riverside County Office of Education.
The program, spearheaded by UC Riverside’s Graduate School of Management by educator Dr. Linda Navarrette, launched in six California school districts, including Moreno Valley Unified School District, and in 100...
The UC Riverside Botanic Gardens held their 35th annual Fall Garden Market and Plant Sale last weekend from 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 21 through Sunday, Oct. 22 with many local vendors selling a variety of plants; a number of volunteers and staff members were also there to share knowledge and tips on horticultural care and maintenance.
Interim Director of...
On Thursday, Oct. 26, the Cellar Door Bookstore, located on Canyon Crest Drive, less than a mile away from UCR campus, hosted a talk conducted by anthropologist and author Tom Patterson. The talk, which focused on the fundamentals of capitalism, was the second in a series of planned discussions the bookstore will host.
According to Linda Sherman, the owner of...
By: Evan Ismail, Senior Staff Writer and Jaya Vengadesan, Staff Writer
UCR students, faculty and staff participated in the Great California Shakeout on Tuesday, Oct. 19 alongside 10.3 million others across California. The drill, organized by the Earthquake Country Alliance, is intended to teach people how to react properly during an earthquake.
According to the Great California Shakeout, the drill...
A new book, “Shadows of Sherman Institute,” co-written by UCR professor Clifford Trafzer, highlights the private boarding school life of Native American children through the use of a collection of photos.
Native American boarding schools were established during the late 19th century to educate and assimilate Native American children and help them join American society as an additional labor...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted $1 million to UCR Research and Economic Development for a drone development study. The project, which is headed by Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Amit Roy-Chowdhury, aims to create drones with artificial intelligence, which would allow the machines to conduct reconnaissance without relying on human commands or controls. The main purpose...
On Tuesday, Oct. 17, UCR’s Center for Ideas and Society-sponsored research group Migration and Conflict Across the Mediterranean kickstarted their year-long project of examining Mediterranean topics on religious conflict and toleration and migration through the arts and exile.
Organized by three UC Riverside professors — Professor of Literature & Performance and Chairman of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production Erith...
The third ASUCR senate meeting of the quarter promptly began at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19.
Following ex-officio reports, the Finance committee’s allocation of $7,678 overall to campus student organizations was approved 16-0-0. The organizations who received these fundings included, but were not limited to the Badminton Club, Film Society and Women’s Water Polo.
During senate reports, CNAS Senator...
Thomas Edsall, leading political columnist for the New York Times, delivered a pointed assessment of the current political climate to an audience of about 40 students and faculty inside CHASS’s Interdisciplinary South 1113 on Thursday, Oct. 12.
For the Times, Edsall translates leading political science research and survey data into sharp, comprehensible analysis for a weekly column that generally appears...
In Nature Scientific Reports journal on Monday, Oct. 2, researchers of UC Riverside published their findings on genetically modified (GM) soybean oil, which revealed the harmful effects this oil can have. This research is the first to compare Plenish, a GM soybean oil, with a conventional soybean oil on the long-term effects they have on a person’s metabolism.
Professor of...