LA Times holds seminar on keeping city officials accountable

On Wed. Jan. 20, the School of Public Policy held a seminar at the Center for Sustainable Suburban Development discussing accountability amongst city government officials. The event was led by LA Times writers Mariel...

UCR receives $517,000 to collaborate on social media archiving project

UC Riverside will be working with Washington University in St. Louis and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland in developing an application called DocNow, which will be...

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UCR economist receives $100,000 grant UCR Economics Professor Steven Helfand has received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service to analyze the productivity of farms in Brazil. The economist will...

BOOM Journal Hosts “Getting Religion” Forum

On Friday, Jan. 22, BOOM: A Journal of California hosted an evening at the Alumni and Visitors Center celebrating the release of the journal’s latest issue entitled, “Getting Religion.” The night was filled with...

Wade Nobles lectures on African history and humanity

San Francisco State University (SFSU) professor emeritus Wade Nobles gave a lecture on Jan. 19 entitled “Yesterday is History, Today is a Miracle, Tomorrow is a Mystery: History is the Key to Unlocking the...

Conference discusses science fiction and fantasy by people of color

On Thursday, Jan. 21, professors of creative writing Nalo Hopkinson and Rachelle Cruz and Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature, Jaymee Goh, met in INTS 1111A to discuss their experiences curating, editing and writing for...

UCR breaks record admission

For the first time in UCR’s history, the university received over 50,000 applicants for undergraduate admissions, a record number. Of the 52,467 total applicants, 41,559 were freshmen applicants and 10,908 were transfer applicants. More than...

Columbia professor hosts seminar on LGB health

On Monday, Jan. 11, Columbia University Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Mark Hatzenbuehler gave a seminar to address how social policies and attitudes affect the mental health of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) individuals...

UCR School of Medicine dean search continues

On Jan. 12, Klea D. Bertakis gave a presentation describing her vision and goals if she is selected as the new dean for the UCR School of Medicine, being the third of four candidates...

Student voices highlighted at Islamophobia conference

On Thursday Jan. 15, an event organized by the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program entitled, “Examining Islamophobia,” which is part of the Islamophobia teach-in series, was held in INTS 1128. Panels featured several...