Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) led a procession on Wednesday of around 20-25 Highlanders that started under the Rivera archways and wrapped around the Bell Tower to honor the International Day of Action for Palestine. The event was organized in tandem with other protests around the world rallying to call for an end to the Israeli occupation of...
Cosmic Thursdays, a series of free and public talks about astronomy-related topics, returned on Thursday, October 15 with a lecture entitled “Alternative Earths: What our planet’s history may tell us about life in the Universe.” The talk was given by Timothy Lyons, a professor in the earth sciences department at UCR who earned his Ph.D in geology geochemistry from...
The ASUCR meeting held on Wednesday yielded comments at the public forum segment about edits made last week to a clause in the ASUCR bylaws which handles R’Pantry implementation and the Diversity Council. Acting executive vice president presentations were also given by candidates Wen-Yu Chou, Melina Reyes and Taylor Valmores, with Valmores being appointed on Oct.15.
According to a clause...
Last week, many multicolored shirts adorned the west sidewalk near the UCR Bell Tower to raise awareness of sexual and domestic violence. Hosted by the UC Riverside Women’s Resource Center and the Sexual Assault and Violence (S.A.V.E.) Peer Group, the campus’ annual rendition of a national event known as “The Clothesline Project” was held from Oct.12-14.
The Clothesline Project is...
On Thursday, October 15, 1,100 backpacks were scattered across the University of California, Riverside's Bell Tower Lawn from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in honor of college suicide victims. The event, called "Send Silence Packing," is a program created by Active Minds, the nation's leading organization on young adult mental wellness.
Since its inaugural display on the National Mall grounds...
In a collaborative effort to create a functional swimsuit that cleans the ocean, UCR professors and the Eray Carbajo design firm recently won the international Reshape15 competition for the best of wearable technology.
For the past four years, electrical engineering professors Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan along with graduate students, Daisy Patino and Hamed Bay have been trying to create an...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant totaling $454,866 for the continuation of a project led by UCR Professor of Psychology, David Funder.
This study has been published in the “Journal of Personality” and is known as The World at 7: Comparing the Experience Across 20 Countries, and encaptures the behavior of people spanning the globe and...
Patents on developments such as the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, the nicotine patch used to help cigarette-smokers crush their habit and the Camarosa strawberry have all helped to bring in revenue into the UC system, earning over $500 million for the schools and faculty involved.
Because of the potential royalties, licensing fees and stock holdings to be earned through patents,...
This past April, the U.S. Department of Education fined the for-profit Corinthian College system $30 million for misleading loan agencies and students regarding the ability of their graduates to obtain jobs. Soon after, Corinthian College shut down all of its Everest, Heald, WyoTech and online campuses, halting the education of 13,000 California students.
In response, Assemblyman Jose Medina (D-Riverside) and...
On Thursday, Oct.15, UCR held an emergency earthquake drill at 10:15 a.m. as part the “Great California Shake Out,” a regional drill which seeks to encourage preparedness for a large magnitude 7.8 earthquake. UCR students joined 10 million other people across the state who participated in this drill.
Since 2006, seismology experts have predicted that “the big one,” an over-7.0...