UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Susila Gurusami, found that black women face more challenges than any other category of people in Los Angeles when trying to find employment after release from incarceration. Her findings were consolidated into her article “Working for Redemption: Formerly Incarcerated Black Women and Punishment in the Labor Market” and recently published in the “Gender and Society”...
A new study entitled “Prenatal Ethanol Exposure and Neocortical Development: A Transgenerational Model of FASD,” published by UCR Professor of Psychology Kelly Huffman published in the Oxford academic journal Cerebral Cortex, finds that women who consume alcohol while pregnant may impact not only their child, but their grand- to great-grandchildren.
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a term used...
A UCR linguistics professor, Wesley Leonard, specializing in Native American languages, has been awarded a government grant to host a unique workshop on the intersection of linguistics and activism. Professor Leonard of the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies received a $150,000 grant to organize and facilitate “Expanding Linguistic Science by Broadening Native American Participation,” an application-only conference to be...
Approximately 250 people gathered at Riverside City Hall on Sunday, August 13 to remember those lost to the August 12 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The rally, which was led by white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan groups to protest the dismantling of the city's long-standing Confederate General Robert E. Lee statue, left 19 injured and one woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer,...
Compiled by: Evan Ismail, SSW and Andreas Rauch, SSW
Several events occurred at a local, national and global stage throughout the 2016-17 school year that impacted the UCR community. Below we highlight and recap a few of the major events the News section’s Year in Review.
October 2017: Former U.S. Undersecretary of Education comes to campus
Ted Mitchell, now-former U.S. undersecretary of...
Riverside area school board member avoids censure
A Riverside area school board member accused of racist social media posts earlier this year has escaped censure by the Alvord Unified School District (AUSD) board. Trustee Joseph Barragan is accused by the school board of violating decorum and professionalism by posting criticisms of district policy and employee salaries in addition to making...
On May 24, the Riverside City Attorney’s office announced that the last medical marijuana dispensary in the city has been shut down. The declaration marked the 118th of such closures since 2007, when the city council enacted a land ordinance that banned medical marijuana facilities. That ordinance, and the 2013 California Supreme Court case that upheld it, made Riverside...
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- On Saturday, June 10, the non-profit ACT for America, a national security organization that seeks to recruit, train and mobilize “citizens community by community … to keep this nation safe,” held an anti-Sharia law and anti-Islam protest down the street from the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, the site of a deadly terror attack...
According to a survey conducted by Riverside County released on April 12, 2017, there are currently around 2,413 homeless adults and children residing in Riverside. This is an increase from the 2,165 people that were homeless in 2016. This increase comes from the fluctuation of local economics and the increase in the cost of housing. According to the survey,...
Across the country, colleges are allegedly suppressing the free speech of their students, according to the national student Libertarian organization Young Americans for Liberty (YAL). According to a series of press releases from YAL, community colleges in Michigan, Massachusetts and Kentucky have been accused of restricting free speech. These restrictions range from colleges stopping students from handing out pocket...