Marcela Ramirez, the 42nd student regent for the University of California Board of Regents, will soon end her term for the year of 2016-2017 this upcoming July. Her successor for the 2017-2018 term is Paul Monge, a graduate law student at UC Berkeley.
Ramirez earned her bachelor’s degree from the California State University, Fullerton in French and economics. She subsequently...
Four researchers at UC Riverside have invented gel capsule baits, dubbed “hydrogel,” that will help manage the invasive Argentine ant populations. These ants are considered pests and are particularly concentrated on the coastal counties of California, infesting homes and disrupting native species’ habitats.
The baits, composed of a seaweed base, brought the ant population down by nearly 70 percent after...
On May 10, Jun-Hyeong Cho, assistant professor of cell biology and neuroscience at UCR, and Woong Bin Kim, a postdoctoral researcher in Cho’s lab, published their study on fear memory in Journal of Neuroscience. Cho and Kim conducted studies on fear memory to understand how the brain interprets and remembers fear. They concluded that humans and animals develop adaptive...
On Wednesday, May 17, UCR and the Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) company, a subsidiary of Fortune 500 company Sempra Energy, announced the opening of a new natural gas research center on campus. The Center for Renewable Natural Gas (CRNG) will solely focus on the research of new technologies that can be used to renew natural gas, making it the...
On Tuesday, May 23, President Donald Trump released his budget plan, titled “A Foundation for American Greatness,” that would cut the safety net for many social programs, but would also allocate $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall on the Mexican-U.S. border.
Trump’s budget plan would cut welfare programs by $274 billion over the next decade. Programs that would be...
UCR area sexual assault suspect surrenders
By: Andreas Rauch, SSW
A local man wanted since May 14 on suspicion of sexual assault surrendered to the Riverside County Superior Court last Wednesday, May 24. The suspect, since identified as Jamaal Andrew Lee, 41, is accused by UCPD of committing sexual assault against a woman he drove during a shift as an Uber...
On this week's Newsroom we question whether the campus administration should actively step in in such situations? How should students react, especially if they're being directly targeted?
We also shed light on the current efforts made by parents and community members of the Riverside area's Alvord Unified School District to recall trustee Joseph Barragan who is accused of making racist...
At the UC Regents meeting on Wednesday, May 10, at the UC San Francisco campus, students, staff and faculty protested the alleged $175 million the UC Office of the President (UCOP) failed to report in their budget, which was later discovered by state auditor Elaine Howle. Although not slated for discussion until Thursday, May 11, students demanded answers at...
From 7 p.m. to about 9 p.m. on Monday, May 15 in the Alumni and Visitors Center, the World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California, Global Issues Forum, Glocally Connected and UCR Undergraduate Education sponsored an event to discuss the current refugee crisis in Syria and Afghanistan and community involvement. The event, titled, “Re-envisioning Refugees: Empowerment Through Education,” was...
UCR’s Center for Healthy Communities found that children previously exposed to racial discrimination, regardless of socioeconomic status and ethnicity, had experienced a significant decrease in overall health. Ashaunta Anderson, assistant professor at UCR’s School of Medicine, is the lead author of this study, presented on May 7 at the Pediatric Academic Society’s meeting in San Francisco. Anderson explained her...