UCR Assistant Creative Writing Professor David L. Ulin has recently been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for research in the category of General Nonfiction by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is an organization that was founded in memory of 17 year-old John Simon Guggenheim in honor of his death in 1925 by United States Senator Simon...
Juan Felipe Herrera, a former UCR creative writing professor, has been named the United States Poet Laureate for 2015. During the two-year tenure as Poet Laureate, Herrera will serve as the nation’s official poet and seek to encourage the reading and writing of poetry across the country.
Herrera also has the distinction of being the first Latino to be selected...
The appointment of the ASUCR elections director has been delayed until fall quarter after the special elections meeting held on June 2 was adjourned after nine minutes, due to an argument between former candidate Neftali Galarza and members of the senate regarding the appointment of the vice president of external affairs.
This is the second postponement of the elections director...
UCR's Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox, Graduate School of Education Dean Thomas M. Smith and mechanical engineering professor Suveen Mathaudu will be attending and presenting panels at the US News STEM Solutions Conference from June 29 to July 1 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.
This conference aims to bring leaders in higher education from around the nation together...
A Year in Review
This past year of the Highlander has been exciting for the opinions section — lovingly called “Ops”— with new additions and losses to its daily content. Beyond its recurring structure, the opinions section has seen the revitalization of the comics section by past Opinions Editor Jameson Adame and Art Director Andrew Golden, where students can practice...
Graduate student Marcela Ramirez has been nominated for the position of UC student regent for the 2016-2017 school year. Ramirez, who is studying higher education administration and policy, will be the 42nd student regent if appointed by the UC Board of Regents Special Committee in July.
Student regents are voting members in the UC Board of Regents who serve one...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about Margaret Cho, the start of the R'Pantry and homelessness among students and finals week.
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Water experts Celeste Cantu, Joe Grindstaff, John Rossi and Doug Headrick convened on Wednesday May 27 to discuss the state of California’s water supply and measures being implemented in response to the California drought in a seminar entitled “Water: Impact of the Drought and New Regulations on Inland Southern California.”
The seminar was one of many in the Lewis Randall...
Success in Science & Technology: Engagement with Role-Models(SISTERS), a program initiated by the College of Natural and Agricultural Science Ambassadors, seeks to improve the amount of women in the science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The program, initiated in November, has 50 University Heights middle school students meet monthly with their mentor and bimonthly with a female faculty member...
After a month filled with a laptopping scandal, the controversial removal of two justices, censure of two ECAB officials and allegations of bias by the elections committee, ASUCR — under the alleged pressure of administration — has allowed the elected senate to take their seats for the 2015-16 school year.
The majority of the ASUCR senate is dominated by the...