On Wednesday, March 8 the MyUCR undergraduate admissions portal was shut down for technical reasons, following the accidental posting of acceptances to some applicants’ portals. These acceptances were later rescinded as the admissions office became aware of the mistake. UC Riverside spokesman James Grant responded saying, “UCR apologizes to anyone affected by this situation.”
The portal initially displayed a congratulations...
On Monday, April 3 at 3:30 p.m., the new University of California Title IX coordinator, Kathleen Salvaty, held a call-in conference for student reporters throughout the UC system. Salvaty decided to hold this news conference due to April being sexual assault awareness month and to broadcast the resources available across the UC campuses.
Salvaty was named the UC’s first system-wide...
UCR’s Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Jikui Song and Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology Rong Hai published their findings on the crystal structure of the Zika virus in the Nature Communications scientific journal on March 27, 2017.
The Zika virus is a member of the flavivirus family, a group of viruses that are transmitted through bites from ticks...
On Monday, April 3, UC Riverside’s Department of Entomology was ranked as the second-best entomology program in the world by the Center for World University Rankings, one of the largest and most comprehensive worldwide academic rating systems. UCR ranked behind the University of Florida and ahead of Cornell University.
This is not the first time that UCR’s entomology department...
Researchers from the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory have discovered an influx in the amount of phosphorus due to dust coming from both the Gobi Desert (located in Northern China) and from the California Central Valley. This discovery was made by a team of scientists from the observatory, including scientists from the University of California, Riverside, such as Dr....
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Carl Cranor released a new book this past March explaining how and why citizens are harmed by toxic chemicals, as legal failure to review toxic chemicals harms individuals. Based on the Romanell Lectures given at UCR, a professorship administered by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cranor’s book, “Tragic Failures: How and Why We are Harmed...
In a joint statement issued Saturday, April 1, former U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the former senior editor of Breitbart News, Milo Yiannopoulos, has switched bodies with the editor-in-chief of The Highlander, Myles Andrews-Duve. This comes as result of the “Freaky Friday” pandemic that hit globally over the weekend.
This exchange entails...
The spontaneous phenomenon coined “Freaky Friday,” hit the Inland Empire and the rest of the world on Friday, March 31, leaving researchers and professors baffled. Reminiscent of the 2003 film of the same name starring Lindsay Lohan, people have reported switching places, bodies and psyches. The first reports began rolling in on Friday evening, with one of the most...
The student inside the Scotty costume, Wright Schroot, has been placed under psychiatric evaluation after brutally attacking spectators during UC Riverside’s baseball match against UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) on Friday, March 31. While Schroot was apprehended unscathed, seven students have been hospitalized with minor to major injuries.
“One minute he was dancing, the next he was absolutely feral,” recalled...
In a shocking series of events, the international phenomenon deemed by experts as “Freaky Friday” has hit the White House and the Vatican in tandem, switching up roles that carry global reverberations.
It was announced Friday, March 31 that, in response to the phenomenon, President Donald J. Trump and Pope Francis have apparently switched bodies, with Pope Francis in the...