UC Riverside placed 24th among 30 best non-historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) for minority students in the United States, according to Dr. Matthew Lynch, the chair and associate professor of education at Langston University and author of the list. Published in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, the list factors in the percentage of enrolled minority students, freshman retention...
California voters made a historic vote on Tuesday, electing the state’s first new U.S. senator in 24 years and the first black politician to represent the state in the senate in electing State Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris to the U.S. senate.
Harris, the former San Francisco Attorney General from 2004-2011, won the seat over challenger Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Orange).
Harris hails...
A psychiatry residency program, sponsored by the UCR School of Medicine and the Riverside County Department of Mental Health, has received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the national regulatory body in charge of overseeing graduate medical training programs across the United States.
“The goal of this new residency training program is not only to train...
Compiled by: Evan Ismail, SSW and Andreas Rauch, SSW
UCR carjacking suspect arrested
On Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 3:05 p.m., UCPD sent a mass text message to UCR students warning of two attempted carjackings by a suspect in the Bannockburn area.
The suspect was described as a Hispanic male about 25 years old with a shaved head wearing a blue, striped...
Oscar Rodriguez, a former Riverside County sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2025 to one year in jail and 10 years of felony probation for the 2014 killing of 39-year-old Luis Carlos Morin in Coachella. The sentence followed a June conviction by an Indio jury that found Rodriguez, 44, guilty of voluntary manslaughter and a gun use enhancement....
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...
Cosmic Thursdays, a series of free and public talks about astronomy-related topics, returned on Thursday, October 15 with a lecture entitled “Alternative Earths: What our planet’s history may tell us about life in the Universe.” The talk was given by Timothy Lyons, a professor in the earth sciences department at UCR who earned his Ph.D in geology geochemistry from...
Returning for the second set of presidential debates, various candidates for the upcoming Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside (ASUCR) came together at HUB 269 to debate their platform. Featuring candidates running for Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (VPDEI), Vice President of Campus Internal Affairs (VPCIA) and Executive Vice President (EVP), the debate provided each...
A Candidates Convention was held for both Legislative Candidates and Executive Candidates on April 7, 2022 and April 14, 2022 respectively. Both conventions were held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the HUB Plaza and gave ample opportunity for voters to meet the candidates for a variety of positions in the Associated Students of UCR and learn about...
On Tuesday, Jan. 10, UC Teamsters took to the pavement to protest against what the Teamsters argue are unfairly low wages. Employees across all 10 UC campuses demonstrated their cause and the Highlander received exclusive interviews with some of the UCR members of the organization who were actively protesting at the Canyon Crest and University loop as well as...