Fall quarter 2015 will be introducing UCR’s newest professional school, the Master of Public Policy (MPP) program.
The inaugural cohort consists of 29 students who are either aspiring or current policymakers seeking further education and knowledge about how they can help to solve some of the Inland Empire’s toughest problems, such as accessible education, the economy, the drought, health, environmental...
UCR’s Starbucks — located inside the Market at Glen Mor 2 — launched its grand opening ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 9 a.m. The ceremony was attended by over 20 people, many of the dining and housing service representatives, and began with a coffee tasting session, hosted by the Starbucks Manager Bernie Weiss, and a ribbon cutting session...
On Sept. 17, the U.S. Poet Laureate and former UCR creative writing professor Juan Felipe Herrera opened the “La Familia,” (The Family) poem as part of the “La Casa De Colores” (the House of Colors) project. This poem will allow anyone in the country who is over 13 years old to contribute verses of poetry to the Library of...
The UC Board of Regents along with Chancellor Kim Wilcox, Vice Chancellor of Planning and Budget Maria Anguiano and Campus Architect Rob Gayle convened on September 15, 2015 at the UC Irvine campus to discuss capital strategy regarding the implementation of the campus master plan entitled “UCR 2020: Path to Preeminence.”
The strategic action plan “UCR 2020” was first presented...
Over the summer, the ASUCR senate met to propose and approve the location for the R’Food Pantry Initiative at UCR’s Bear Den. The project has received several other updates including a $75,000 donation from the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) Janet Napolitano and an additional $10,000 from UCR’s Vice Chancellor Jim Sandoval. Despite this, an opening...
A partnership between the UCR School of Business Administration (SoBA) and Beacon Economics will bring the new Center for Economic Forecasting and Development to the Inland Empire this October.
The center will bring university resources to help make economic predictions and bring economic development products, such as advertising, to the area. Collaboration among researchers, business and government leaders will serve...
A lecture on lunar eclipses was held in Bourns Hall Room A265 Friday, September 25, before the super moon total lunar eclipse that took place Sunday night. The talk was conducted by Mario De Leo-Winkler, a physics and astronomy postdoctoral researcher at UCR.
With a room of about 30 attendees, Leo-Winkler began by shedding light on a few basic facts...
On Sunday morning Sept. 20, around 20 community members gathered to take part in a peace walk held by the newly formed organization, Glocally Connected, to bring awareness to the Syrian refugee crisis.
With International Peace Day taking place Sept. 21, Glocally Connected organizers Selin Yildiz Nielsen and Sherry MacKay assembled a small group of people from UCR, the city...
The UC Regents held their monthly regents meeting at UC Irvine on Sept. 15-17. The system’s free speech policy became a prominent issue as a first draft to include a statement on the UC system’s position on intolerance was rejected.
According to the proposed statement, “Intolerance has no place at the University of California. We define intolerance as unwelcome conduct...
As race relations dominate the national spotlight, UCR sociology professor Dr. David A. Swanson, a distinguished demographer, released a vignette comparing the socioeconomic makeup of Mississippi and Hawaii on September 16, 2015, which highlights racial disparities between the two states and political changes which affected the state’s demographics.
Swanson’s essay was released in advance of an event called “What Can...