A recent meeting between educators and lawmakers from the Inland Empire was held to discuss how to raise college attendance in the area. Chancellor Kim Wilcox represented UCR and highlighted about the university’s rise in graduation rates over recent years. Other lawmakers presented ideas about systems that would enable educators to track student progress throughout high school to better...
Proposition 51 is a new ballot measure that will be up for vote on Nov. 8 and would allow for the state of California to issue $9 billion in general obligation bonds — municipal bonds secured by the state or federal government — to improve the infrastructure of California’s K-12 schools and community colleges, in which about 8.3 million...
UCR’s Graduate School of Education (GSOE) was recently awarded $885,834 as part of the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program that is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
The GSOE expects to use the funds, along with matching UCR funds, for eight doctoral fellowships for students who plan to study educational psychology and specialize in psychometrics....
UCR Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Phillip Christopher has recently uncovered a method to tune chemical reactions to favor specific products through the use of a catalyst. With this technique of controlling both the pathways and the products created in certain chemical reactions, Christopher hopes to apply the same principle to other chemical reactions, and perhaps use...
On Tuesday, Sept. 20, UCR held its New Student Convocation on Pierce Lawn. This year’s convocation was the largest one ever held, with an estimated attendance of 4,600 students comprised of both incoming freshmen and transfer students.
Welcoming the students to the ceremony was the UCR Highlander Band conducted by Giovanni Mayoral. The UCR Pipe Band, which was a collection...
On Wednesday, Sept. 14, at the UC Board of Regents meeting, a debt policy proposal was made in response to the university system’s growing loan debt. Since the end of 2008, the UC system’s diversified debt portfolio has grown from $6.79 billion to around $17.2 billion. The loan debt was acquired in the process of funding items such as...
The University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) recently collaborated to host a STEM workshop for more than 60 middle school and high school students on Saturday, Sept. 10. The workshop, held at BCOE, centered around faculty-led discussions on how nanotechnology and biology are being increasingly integrated...
A team comprised of researchers from UC San Diego, UC Riverside and three research institutions from Puebla, Mexico gathered at UC Riverside for a two-day symposium to discuss their biomedical project titled, “Window to the Brain.” The researchers will be working together to create a transparent skull implant that will allow doctors to treat their patients in a minimally...
UCR ranked highly among the most environmentally friendly campuses
Sierra Club’s Cool School Rankings, in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, recently placed UC Riverside at 27th out of 201 universities. The ranking system aims to highlight which schools have made the most environmentally friendly developments across the country.
According to their website, the...
Quinn McFrederick, assistant professor of entomology at UCR, recently uncovered a close relationship between wild bee and flower microbiomes, as well as the importance of microbiomes in overall bee fitness, or the ability to pass on genes. Using this discovery, he hopes to elucidate changes in the gut microbiome of wild bees in response to environmental changes for the...