On Thursday, Sept. 1, UC Riverside announced that the UCR Professional Studies office has opened in Chandigarh, India and is currently recruiting students for winter quarter 2017. This office is an extension of the UC Riverside Extension Center’s office and is set to offer non-degree and professional programs.
Current Director of Admissions at Griffith College Ireland Deepak Luthra is heading...
A total of 124 recent graduates from the University of California, Riverside have applied to the nationwide City Year program this year, making it the college with the most applicants across the nation for the fifth consecutive year. The university also tops the list for the highest number of confirmed hires with a total of 50.
City Year is one...
Assistant professor in UCR’s department of physics and astronomy, Naveen Reddy, has recently published two papers discussing his research explaining why the universe has the ability to become transparent.
Reddy’s research was performed using a model that compared the quantity of gas content found in galaxies scales to the amount of interstellar dust found in the universe. Some parts of...
On Thursday, Sept. 8, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation SB 32 into law as an effort to reduce California’s carbon footprint. With the goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, legislators will continue working to create policies that encourage sustainability within the state. However, scientists and researchers question the state's ability to...
The 2015-2016 school year has been long, eventful and packed with stories that the news team has attempted to duly cover. Below are some of the biggest events that happened this year.
UCR’s triumphs and milestones
UCR’s School of Public Policy launched its master’s program with an inaugural class consisting of 29 students and Anil Deolalikar serving as the program’s...
Professor at the UCR Graduate School of Education Rollanda O’Connor has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Educational Sciences to fund her ongoing research on how to improve reading, writing and language development in middle school children with learning disabilities.
The three-year project that O’Connor is currently working on titled, “Vocabulary CHAAOS:...
U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera wrote the poem, “Where We Find Ourselves,” which was published by the Los Angeles Times on June 3, 2016 in response to the shooting that took place at UCLA on June 1, 2016. The poem was dedicated to Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering William Klug, who was killed in the shooting, and...
On Wednesday, June 15, the California Legislature approved $5 million in funding to be used toward a University of California research center on firearm violence, making it the first in the nation of its kind. The proposal, initially a standalone piece of legislation, was approved as part of a $170.9 billion dollar spending plan. Funding for the center was...
UCR establishes partnership to work toward fighting citrus disease
UCR and the California Citrus Research Foundation launched a partnership on Monday, June 6, setting forth plans toward constructing a building that will support researchers in their fight against citrus greening disease. This partnership has been formed to help protect the $3.3 billion citrus industry from citrus greening disease, scientifically known...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will have 10 new interns from UCR this summer as part of a five-year research project called, “Fellowships and Internships in Extremely Large Data Sets” (FIELDS). The project aims to train minority groups that are underrepresented in the STEM fields.
UCR received a $4.5 million grant from NASA last year that will enable the 10...