On Feb. 24, the Riverside Police Department arrested a man in conjunction with an intercepted package containing over 1,000 ecstasy pills.
The package, originating from the Netherlands, was addressed to an apartment on the 3000 block of Iowa Avenue and was disguised as a jigsaw puzzle. After federal officials discovered the narcotics, they were delivered to the suspect’s apartment complex...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about ASPB’s Winter SOULstice, the Inland Empire teacher shortage and food waste in America.
Be sure to catch the Highlander Newsroom on the radio, airing every Wednesday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m., only on KUCR 88.3 FM.
On Wednesday, Feb. 17, about 25 people gathered at 4 p.m. in CHASS Interdisciplinary Building South (INTS) 1128 to listen to Associate Professor of Religious Studies Muhamad Ali and Professor of Philosophy Howard Wettstein speak at a lecture that is part of the Dueling Disciplines series entitled, “Who is God and what is He/She up to?”
Ali began the lecture...
The ASUCR senate convened last Wednesday in the senate chambers to pass a resolution for nutritional labeling of HUB foods as well as a resolution to allow open-source textbooks. Also during the meeting, a justice from the ASUCR judicial council read a majority opinion that ASUCR acted unconstitutionally when it appointed an interim vice president of external affairs.
On Jan....
For the upcoming November 2016 election, the Riverside Unified School District is seeking a $257 million bond to pay for millions in upgrades and repairs to the aging infrastructure on school campuses. The bond would tax homeowners $60 per $100,000 of their property’s value in order to fund the district, according to the Press Enterprise. An oversight committee to...
A research team at UCR within the Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) has established a computationally efficient way to increase the accuracy of location by the Global Positioning System (GPS) from the meter-level to centimeters.
UCR Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jay Farrell has led the research project with the results being published in the Institute...
On Tuesday, Feb. 16, journalist and author Jonathan Bloom gave a lecture on food waste and the impact it has had on our world at the UCR Extension Center. The focus of the lecture was on why people waste food, the repercussions of food waste and how people can help to alleviate the problems caused by these behaviors. His...
Professor of English Literature Stanley Stewart passed away in his home in Riverside on Feb. 9, 2016 at the age of 84. He joined UCR’s English Department in 1961 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971 for English literature as well as a Distinguished Teaching Award from the academic senate in 1998.
Stewart was born June 5, 1931, in Minneapolis,...
UCR’s Graduate School of Education (GSOE), in partnership with school districts across San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, are seeking to fill many teaching vacancies caused by the 2008 economic recession. In order to combat this shortage — especially in the science and special education fields — many school districts are offering new signing bonuses and expanding their outreach at...
The University of California is increasing its efforts to encourage more African-Americans and Latinos to apply and enroll in UC schools. With the recent approval of the plan to enroll more Californians in the coming years, UC President Janet Napolitano is urging students to take advantage of programs like Achieve UC, which helps students become competitive applicants to the...