On Friday, Feb. 21, UCR Psychology Professor Kate Sweeny and fourth-year psychology graduate student Mike Dooley published a review study on the benefits to worrying. In their research, Sweeny and Dooley emphasize the two main benefits of worrying: Worry as a motivator and worry as a buffer.
The research was conducted by looking over decades of previous studies. In...
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UCR researchers use CRISPR technology to make new red-eyed wasps
By: Jaya Vengadesan, Staff Writer
UCR researchers have created wasps with red eyes, a new phenotype that has never been expressed in the species before. Working under Assistant Professor of Entomology Omar Akbari, this group of researchers utilized clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology, a relatively new piece...
This week, a scathing audit of the University of California revealed that the office of the president (UCOP) has withheld $175 million from the UC Board of Regents. We use our perspective as students to analyze this report and how it affects our view of the UC. Further, what kind of reform, if any, is necessary for UCOP going...
On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, a symposium regarding UC Riverside’s contributions to the prevention of environmental degradation was held from 6-8 p.m. in the conference room of the Botanic Gardens. The discussion, entitled, “Renewable Nature,” was led by a cross-disciplinary group of six UCR professors involved in UCR’s Living the Promise campaign, a campus-wide program that seeks to raise...
UCR’s Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the School of Medicine Declan McCole, has received a two-year grant of $150,000 which will support research for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. The grant was awarded by Pfizer Inc., a company dedicated to distributing affordable medicine and products for various diseases. McCole will be joined by UCR’s Moorthy Krishnan, assistant project...
ASUCR’s first state of the association meeting of spring quarter began on Wednesday, April 19 at 6:11 p.m. in the senate chambers.
The senate welcomed newly instated CHASS Senator Danielle Flores, a second-year sustainability major and public policy minor, who serves as the replacement for former CHASS Senator Connie Fan who graduated at the end of winter quarter. Flores...
USHIP fraud targets students throughout the UC
On Thursday, April 20, the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) released a statement announcing the discovery of a fraud incident through its university-wide health care program, Undergraduate Student Health Insurance Plan (USHIP).
The fraud allegedly stole almost $12 million from the UC by writing counterfeit medical prescriptions in students’ names....
On Tuesday, April 18, in MSE 104 from 7-8:30 p.m. Delta Epsilon Mu, a professional co-ed pre-health fraternity for undergraduate students, hosted a special lecture event titled, “Breaking Barriers of Adversity with Dr. Lyons and Dr. Larive.” The event featured topics about diversifying UCR, improving education and advancing pre-health careers.
Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Cindy Larive, began...
On Wednesday April 19, around noon, members of the international Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi and B’nai B’rith International, a Jewish service organization, sponsored an event titled, “We Walk to Remember.” The annual event was meant to commemorate the more than six million people that died during the Holocaust as Yom HaShoah — which translates from Hebrew to “Day...