UCR Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Haizhou Liu was recently awarded a competitive National Science Foundation grant this past summer to study and improve the current approach used to purify water for reuse. Through the utilization and study of compounds known as chloramines, Liu hopes to optimize the current model of water purification and lessen the constraints...
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Here are some of the key topics discussed at the senate meeting held Wednesday, Oct. 12:
-2015-2016 CHASS Senator Casey Thielhart spoke during public forum and provided context on the judicial appointment of Samanta Fuentes during an unofficial emergency meeting held during the last school year, as a response to an executive order made by ASUCR President Shafi Karim. This...
Within the next week, teachers involved with UC Riverside’s Early Childhood Services (ECS) will hear Chancellor Kim Wilcox’s final decision on whether the university will continue to fund the services provided by the center, or continue to lay off teachers. Negotiations have been in the workings since June.
About 100 students and parents met in June 2016 to discuss...
On Monday, Sept. 19, UC Riverside Chancellor Kim WIlcox informed Associated Students of UC Riverside (ASUCR) President Shafi Karim, Executive Director (ED) Laurie Sinclair and Financial Operations Manager (FOM) Theresa Perez that Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs (VCSA) James Sandoval will assume complete oversight of ASUCR’s ED position, effective immediately. In addition to the change in reporting structure, the...
The school year’s first ASUCR State of the Association meeting saw the appointment and approval of both the ASPB Board of Directors, as well as Marcy Kuo as the new elections director. An emergency meeting held by last year’s senate, which involved the appointment of a justice, was also disputed in terms of its officiality, with President Shafi Karim...
In 2011, husband and wife Scott Allen, M.D., and Emma Simmons, M.D., in partnership with the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine and the Riverside University Health System (RUHS), opened The Access Clinic in Moreno Valley for adults with developmental disabilities. The Riverside Community Health Foundation and the Inland Empire Health Plan also serve as community partners.
“With its...
Ameae Walker, professor of biomedical sciences in the UCR School of Medicine, is developing a new approach to providing vaccines to infants that involves vaccinating the mother first. The study was funded by a grant to Walker from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institute of Health.
Breast milk has been...
On Monday, Sept. 26, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shared the stage for the first of three debates before the election on Nov. 8. The debate was moderated by “NBC Nightly News” anchor, Lester Holt and was split into six segments.
The debate started with Clinton discussing her plans for creating new jobs,...
On Wednesday, Sept. 28, the UCR School of Public Policy (SPP) hosted a seminar with California State Controller Betty Yee. Professor and Associate Dean of the SPP Karthick Ramakrishnan was there to both introduce Yee and moderate the subsequent question-and-answer session following the lecture. Titled “From Gold to Silicon: What’s Next? The Past, Present, and Future of California’s Economy,”...
UCR’s School of Medicine is partnering up with a speech pathology laboratory of University of Redlands, to conduct a clinical study of the drug ecopipam and its effects on the communicative disorder of stuttering. A pharmaceutical company, Psyadon, who focuses on neurology and psychiatry, will be donating the ecopipam, while the study itself is being funded through philanthropic donations...