ASUCR’s fourth senate meeting of the year saw the passage of two resolutions and the announcement that HEAT Music Festival will be continued in the winter quarter 2017.
During ex-officio reports, ASUCR President Shafi Karim announced that HEAT will continue this year. Later in the meeting, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs James Sandoval declared that he had adhered to the...
Professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering and Director of UCR’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology Matthew Barth was awarded $2.8 million by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to develop new and efficient methods for plug-in hybrid electric buses. The award also comes with an additional $460,000 from...
UCR’s International Education Week took place from Monday, Nov. 7 to Thursday, Nov. 10. The week consisted of 17 events spread throughout, with the intention of giving UCR students and faculty the opportunity to learn a multitude of things in relation to international communities. These events included discussions on how professors teach at their universities in other countries, how...
Science fiction is a hard genre to tackle. All the great sci-fi films from “Star Wars” to “Blade Runner” have envisioned futuristic settings with such acute sense of aesthetic and thematic weight that any new additions to the genre cannot help but seem derivative. Careful hands must come together to fabricate entire worlds filled with enough idiosyncrasies to provide...
Election Day 2016 will certainly be a memorable day for Americans, and for all the wrong reasons. Most people, this editorial board included, probably did not expect Donald Trump to win the presidency. Nevertheless, Trump is now the president-elect, and this fact carries tremendous weight in both political and social realms, which is a strong reason for this country...
Well, the elections are over at long last. Regardless of our various reactions to the outcome, we can’t ignore how millions were frustrated by the excruciatingly long lines they endured last Tuesday before they had the chance to vote. Even with mail-in ballots and early voting giving people a chance to avoid the wait, many counties saw unprecedented voter...
Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election Tuesday (Nov. 8) evening has triggered responses from both the UC Riverside and local Riverside community altogether.
Following Trump's acceptance speech late Tuesday evening, a crowd of nearly 300 students gathered at UCR's Bell Tower at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9 to protest his presidency. The gathering, which was organized by a group...
A crowd of approximately 300 students gathered at UC Riverside’s Bell Tower around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8 to protest Tuesday night’s election results that revealed Republican Donald Trump as the U.S. president elect. The gathering, which was organized by a group of students on campus hours before, was an effort for students to express solidarity with those equally...
Incumbent Richard Roth (D-Riverside) has won a seat on the California senate as a representative of Riverside County’s 31st District, with a victory over Richard Brent Reed (R-Riverside).
As part of his campaign to
improve California’s access to physicians, Roth has fought to get UC Riverside its school of medicine and also assisted in the push to bring the Air Resources...
The incumbent for the 41st District Mark Takano has been re-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Takano, a Democrat, won over challenger Doug Shepherd, a Republican.
Takano was originally elected in 2012 to the district that represents Riverside, Jurupa Valley, Moreno Valley and Perris.
Takano was a teacher in public schools for 20 years and, during his time in Congress,...