The school year’s first ASUCR State of the Association meeting saw the appointment and approval of both the ASPB Board of Directors, as well as Marcy Kuo as the new elections director. An emergency meeting held by last year’s senate, which involved the appointment of a justice, was also disputed in terms of its officiality, with President Shafi Karim...
In 2011, husband and wife Scott Allen, M.D., and Emma Simmons, M.D., in partnership with the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine and the Riverside University Health System (RUHS), opened The Access Clinic in Moreno Valley for adults with developmental disabilities. The Riverside Community Health Foundation and the Inland Empire Health Plan also serve as community partners.
“With its...
Ameae Walker, professor of biomedical sciences in the UCR School of Medicine, is developing a new approach to providing vaccines to infants that involves vaccinating the mother first. The study was funded by a grant to Walker from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institute of Health.
Breast milk has been...
On Monday, Sept. 26, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shared the stage for the first of three debates before the election on Nov. 8. The debate was moderated by “NBC Nightly News” anchor, Lester Holt and was split into six segments.
The debate started with Clinton discussing her plans for creating new jobs,...
On Wednesday, Sept. 28, the UCR School of Public Policy (SPP) hosted a seminar with California State Controller Betty Yee. Professor and Associate Dean of the SPP Karthick Ramakrishnan was there to both introduce Yee and moderate the subsequent question-and-answer session following the lecture. Titled “From Gold to Silicon: What’s Next? The Past, Present, and Future of California’s Economy,”...
UCR’s School of Medicine is partnering up with a speech pathology laboratory of University of Redlands, to conduct a clinical study of the drug ecopipam and its effects on the communicative disorder of stuttering. A pharmaceutical company, Psyadon, who focuses on neurology and psychiatry, will be donating the ecopipam, while the study itself is being funded through philanthropic donations...
A recent meeting between educators and lawmakers from the Inland Empire was held to discuss how to raise college attendance in the area. Chancellor Kim Wilcox represented UCR and highlighted about the university’s rise in graduation rates over recent years. Other lawmakers presented ideas about systems that would enable educators to track student progress throughout high school to better...
Proposition 51 is a new ballot measure that will be up for vote on Nov. 8 and would allow for the state of California to issue $9 billion in general obligation bonds — municipal bonds secured by the state or federal government — to improve the infrastructure of California’s K-12 schools and community colleges, in which about 8.3 million...
UCR’s Graduate School of Education (GSOE) was recently awarded $885,834 as part of the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program that is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
The GSOE expects to use the funds, along with matching UCR funds, for eight doctoral fellowships for students who plan to study educational psychology and specialize in psychometrics....
UCR Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Phillip Christopher has recently uncovered a method to tune chemical reactions to favor specific products through the use of a catalyst. With this technique of controlling both the pathways and the products created in certain chemical reactions, Christopher hopes to apply the same principle to other chemical reactions, and perhaps use...