The UC will award four $12,000 fellowships to graduate and undergraduate students who pursue research projects aimed at combating smoke and tobacco use on campuses. This program, called The UC Smoke and Tobacco Free Student Fellowships, is available to all UC students and majors.
Students who apply for the fellowship must be in good academic standing (at least a 2.0...
The city of Redlands hosted a discussion on teen suicide on May 7 entitled, “Let’s Talk About It,” at Citrus Valley High School, after four recent teen suicides occurred in San Bernardino County during April. The talk hosted by Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) discussed the warning signs of teen suicide, preventive measures, suicide pacts and suicide contagion...
UCR philosophy professor Eric Schwitzgebel will give a lecture entitled, “Living Up to Our Own Norms,” on Tuesday, May 10 in HUB 265 at 1 p.m. The discussion will discuss whether professional ethicists — who are entrusted to uphold social norms — are any more ethical than the average person who is not an ethicist.
Schwitzgebel has been a professor...
On Tuesday, May 3 at a town hall meeting, Chancellor Kim Wilcox discussed the Physical Master Plan for the school’s expansion. This plan encompasses what changes the community and students can expect to see on campus over the next 50 years. The chancellor emphasized a focus on practical improvements and accessibility to the campus, as well as the creation...
On Thursday May 5, UCR’s School of Public Policy (SPP) hosted a seminar featuring Congressman Raul Ruiz in the Interdisciplinary South 1128 screening room. Associate dean of the SPP and professor of public policy and political science Karthick Ramakrishnan introduced Ruiz and served as the moderator for the seminar.
Ruiz grew up in Coachella, California as the son of farmworker...
Chao Wang, associate professor of chemistry, has recently synthesized a new type of artificial polymer using coordination complexes that can self-heal at a wide range of temperatures, as well as after repeated compromises in the polymer’s integrity. Using this new type of polymer, Wang hopes to apply its unique chemical properties to electronics and even humans in the future.
Wang...
On April 18, 2016, UC Riverside alumnus, Dexter Thomas, who graduated in 2006, won a Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to the LA Times’ collaborative packaged coverage of the San Bernardino mass shooting from December 2015. His contribution centered upon shooter, Syed Rizwan Farook, revealing Farook’s previous association with the Islamic Center of Riverside. Thomas, a writer on culture...
ASUCR convened on Wednesday in the senate chambers to pass two resolutions. The first resolution aimed to condemn the Islamophobic, racist and sexist hate crime wherein graduate students offices were vandalized last month. The other sought to improve vegan options for students on campus. Before these resolutions were passed, students from the organization Queer Alliance voiced their contempt for...
ASUCR has drafted a resolution entitled “Resolution in Support of Kappa Sigma at UC Riverside,” which calls on campus administration, staff and faculty to recognize the Kappa Sigma fraternity as part of the university. In addition, this draft calls for the Interfraternal Council (IFC) to amend its constitution so that any fraternity can be allowed to join without being...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about Ted Cruz dropping out of the presidential race, the BCOE dean stepping down, graduation, the death of activist and mother of Tupac Afeni Shakur and Radiohead.
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...