On Wednesday, April 19 from 12-1 p.m., the Student Action Council for Eradicating Poverty and Inequality (SACEPI) partnered with OverFlow to participate in Global Poverty Action Day. Together, they gathered at the Bell Tower to hold the “Fight to Fill the Plate” event to educate students about poverty at UCR.
The focus of the event was to raise awareness...
Shortly after the closing of California Treasurer John Chiang’s headlining event by the UC Riverside School of Public Policy entitled, “Why Resist when we can Lead?” in INTS 1128 at 4:30 p.m., the Highlander interviewed the California treasurer and prospective gubernatorial candidate for 2018 to discuss the present political climate, President Donald Trump’s recent policies and issues Californians are...
It's elections week at UC Riverside and, in response, our board decided to take a hard-line stance against the legal status of laptopping in lieu of endorsing candidates.
We opened this week's Newsroom with a discussion on the practice and our personal experiences with such. Is it legal due in part to the lack of student...
UCR Researchers Create Sensor to Measure Liquid Samples
Researchers at UCR have recently developed a sensor to measure samples by using a piece of glass tubing, which will help when measuring samples that are in liquid.
The sensor can be used in many different applications including toxicology, developmental biology, plant sciences and biomaterials engineering. The research was focused on toxicology...
This past fiscal year, UCR has given six commercial licenses to six UCR-affiliated startups.
The startups include FarmSense, a computer algorithm designed by computer science professor Eamonn Keogh to monitor, predict and classify insects. The company is led by another UCR graduate, Shailendra Singh. Another UCR-affiliated startup garnering national attention is Sponge, which uses technology developed by engineering professors and...
To continue our coverage on UC Riverside’s 62 percent food insecurity rate, the Highlander sat down with three members of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) — GSA President Shawn Ragan, GSA Legislative Liaison Holly Mayton and School of Public Policy Academic Affairs Officer and Global Food Initiative fellow Ryan Natividad to discuss the rate of food insecurity among graduate...
On Wednesday, April 12 at 6:12 p.m., the second senate meeting of spring quarter convened in UNLH, with the room change made to accommodate an anticipated larger-than-usual student turnout.
The meeting began with Chief Justice Jo Gbujama announcing the issuance of preliminary strikes (based on the case of W17-C2, which was a complaint from former Interim President Arturo Gomez),...
The ASUCR Judicial Council met for the second time this spring quarter on Wednesday, April 12 in the senate chambers, with the meeting beginning at 9:18 a.m.
Chief Justice Jo Gbujama began the meeting with the continuation of the case brought to the court by former ASUCR Interim President Arturo Gomez who alleged that several senators were complicit in a...
On Wednesday, April 12, the UCR branch of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) held a protest, while they were tabling at the Bell Tower from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., against the restraining of the free speech of students at UCR.
According to the President of YAL and fourth-year applied math and economics major Joseph Gomez, UCR is limiting the...
On Monday, April 10 a gunman entered the North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, fatally shooting his estranged wife and two North Park students, before turning the gun on himself. The gunman was identified as Cedric Anderson, the husband of victim Karen Smith. According to reports, Anderson went to the school intent on harming Smith and in the...