The 2015-2016 school year has been long, eventful and packed with stories that the news team has attempted to duly cover. Below are some of the biggest events that happened this year.
UCR’s triumphs and milestones
UCR’s School of Public Policy launched its master’s program with an inaugural class consisting of 29 students and Anil Deolalikar serving as the program’s...
Professor at the UCR Graduate School of Education Rollanda O’Connor has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Educational Sciences to fund her ongoing research on how to improve reading, writing and language development in middle school children with learning disabilities.
The three-year project that O’Connor is currently working on titled, “Vocabulary CHAAOS:...
U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera wrote the poem, “Where We Find Ourselves,” which was published by the Los Angeles Times on June 3, 2016 in response to the shooting that took place at UCLA on June 1, 2016. The poem was dedicated to Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering William Klug, who was killed in the shooting, and...
On Wednesday, June 15, the California Legislature approved $5 million in funding to be used toward a University of California research center on firearm violence, making it the first in the nation of its kind. The proposal, initially a standalone piece of legislation, was approved as part of a $170.9 billion dollar spending plan. Funding for the center was...
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...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will have 10 new interns from UCR this summer as part of a five-year research project called, “Fellowships and Internships in Extremely Large Data Sets” (FIELDS). The project aims to train minority groups that are underrepresented in the STEM fields.
UCR received a $4.5 million grant from NASA last year that will enable the 10...
Emma Wilson, associate professor of biomedical sciences, along with several other UCR School of Medicine researchers, have recently uncovered the effects of a parasitic disease, toxoplasmosis, on cells in the brain as well as the mechanism by which these effects manifest. By understanding the influence of this parasite on brain tissue, Wilson and fellow researchers hope to better the...
In the primary elections that were held on Tuesday, June 7, Californians voted to determine the candidates for the presidential election, state representatives and the new state senator. According to the SF Gate, a total 8.9 million votes were cast in the primaries, however, an estimated 1.9 million votes have yet to be counted. The Associated Press reported that...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton rallies and our reflections on this academic year.
Be sure to catch the Highlander Newsroom on the radio, airing every Wednesday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m., only on KUCR 88.3 FM.
UC Riverside historian Megan Asaka has been awarded a Dumbarton Oaks Mellon Fellowship in urban landscape studies by Harvard University. This fellowship will help her continue research on the effect of migrant and transient workers on the development of Seattle’s urban landscape from the mid-19th century until America’s entry into World War II.
Beginning as a dissertation in 2009,...