The three-time incumbent of the 61st District of California Jose Medina was re-elected to the California Assembly. He defeated challenger Hector Diaz (R- Moreno Valley).
Medina was initially elected to the Assembly in 2012 in the district that represents Riverside, Perris, Highgrove, and Moreno Valley.
In his first term as an assemblyman, Medina championed the effort to earmark $15 million of continuous...
California voters made a historic vote on Tuesday, electing the state’s first new U.S. senator in 24 years and the first black politician to represent the state in the senate in electing State Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris to the U.S. senate.
Harris, the former San Francisco Attorney General from 2004-2011, won the seat over challenger Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Orange).
Harris hails...
Every elections cycle, media coverage tends to work out the same way: As the election year looms, elections discourse begins to trickle into the news. Then, as the primaries and caucuses hit full swing and the election is under way, media coverage becomes completely oversaturated with campaign rhetoric, talking points and pundit analysis. While elections are important, and deserve...
When UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox issued an edict to the Associated Students of UC Riverside (ASUCR) in September ordering that the ASUCR executive director (ED) fall under the complete oversight of Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs (VCSA) James Sandoval with a “dotted line” reporting duty to the ASUCR president, there was no immediate pushback from the Associated Students.
Though, just...
UCR Professor of Entomology and Neuroscience Michael Adams, along with members from his lab, recently sat down to discuss their ongoing research involving the process of ecdysis in fruit flies, and the overall impact of this research in understanding drosophila physiology, as well as possible ways to control the spread of diseases.
Arthropods, a group of species that includes organisms...
Researchers from UCR and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton have discovered a core weakness in the design of a computer’s central processing unit (CPU) that can give full access to hackers trying to break into a computer.
This weakness, found in the Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) defense mechanism, was exposed at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium...
ASUCR held its second state of the association meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 28, in which they passed two resolutions — one in support of Proposition 55, and the other encouraging transparency throughout the process of the demolition and relocation of Canyon Crest Family Student Housing. An outline of the 2017 elections timeline was also approved.
During the Green Campus Action...
The second senate meeting of the year, held on Wednesday, Oct. 19, continued the debate over President Shafi Karim’s executive order that has suspended and nullified the appointment of justice nominee Samanta Fuentes.
Justices Hayden Jackson and Jo Gbujama spoke during ex-officio reports to provide context for the situation leading up to the executive order, denouncing Fuentes’ judicial appointment,...
On Sunday, Oct. 16, UCR Vice Provost of International Affairs Kelechi Kalu, led a five-person team to Taiwan on a six-day trip to build better ties with Taiwanese universities. The invitation came from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education and will be one of the first of UC Riverside’s trips abroad.
The team met with officials from ministries of science...