This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about the Spring Splash 2016 lineup, ASUCR elections results being invalidated and a possible reelection, and Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
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This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about the ASUCR elections results being delayed, the possible release of 9/11 documents that may reveal Saudi Arabia connections to the attack, major earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan and the Coachella Music Festival.
Be sure to catch the Highlander Newsroom on the radio, airing every Wednesday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at...
In a seminar hosted by the Office of Research Integrity, international health doctor Brandon Brown discussed how much payment or incentive is ethical in research studies. Brown also discussed his idea of creating a database that would provide information on the incentives given to participants. This idea is a possible solution to the problems that researchers face when deciding...
At last week’s ASUCR senate meeting, UCR’s athletic director Tamica Smith Jones spoke to the horseshoe about the improvements in the university’s athletic programs this year and how she would like to get more students involved with the department.
Jones was appointed as director of intercollegiate athletics by Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox last July to oversee the 17 men and...
On Thursday, April 14, associate professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz, Dorian Bell, visited UCR to give a talk entitled, “Axes of Otherness: Jews, Imperial Capitalism, and the Politics of Scale.” The talk was organized by the UCR Workshop on the Global 19th Century, also called the Global 19th Group and sponsored by UCR’s Center for Ideas and...
Susan J. Mazer, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology from UC Santa Barbara, gave a talk on Wednesday, April 13 about her work with the California Phenology Project (CPP), studying the effects that climate change has on California plant species.
Phenology, Mazer explained, is the study of changes in plants and animals. Flowers blooming, leaves falling off of trees...
Study shows pollution killing off indigenous species in the Inland Empire
UCR Professor of Plant Ecology Edith Allen conducted a study displaying how high levels of nitrogen deposition caused by pollution have significantly decreased the number of native plant species and checkerspot butterfly populations in the Inland Empire. The researcher has published these findings in the Proceedings of the National...
On April 13, 2016, UCLA Professor Jemima Pierre gave a lecture about the ongoing issue of racialization in West Africa in INTS 1109. Pierre, the author of “The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race,” asserted that colonization is still prominent in West Africa, particularly Ghana because of former British power in its Gold Coast region.
Although...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about the UC monitoring of campus networks, the Panama Papers and UCR elections.
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.
Correction 4/12/16: On the printed version of the Elections Guide, it is stated that Alissa Espiritu is part of the Side party. This is incorrect. She is part of the Orange Party.
All candidates were asked the following questions in order to understand the specifics of their campaigns!:
What issues would you like to tackle via legislation or projects...