A team of students at UCR have been working on a vehicle to enter into the Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a competition which will be held from Thursday, April 27 through Sunday, April 30 at the Make the Future Festival held in Detroit, Michigan.
The annually held competition welcomes student entrants to work on creating and designing vehicles that are...
In response to a high-voltage switch failure that occurred near the Genomics building last Saturday, Oct. 13, the UCR Facilities Management team was forced to temporarily shut down power to nearly 30 buildings across campus.
The power outage was caused by a failure in the electrical switch located near the Genomics building. A generator was used to power the building...
UC Riverside alumnus Michael Huerta was recently nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Association (FAA). On Jan. 9, Huerta was sworn into office, beginning his five-year term.
“I’m very honored that President Obama placed his trust in me to direct this agency,” said Michael Huerta, in a phone interview with the Highlander....
UC Riverside founder dies at the age of 104
UCR announced last month that Judge John Gabbert, one of the founders of the university, passed away in his Riverside home on Dec. 9, 2013.
Gabbert was an instrumental figure in turning the UC Citrus Experiment Station into the UC campus that stands today. A founder of the Citizen’s University Committee (CUC),...
The Riverside City Council voted on Feb. 10 to increase funding for library materials and the Riverside School of the Arts by $50,000 each this year as part of several supplemental appropriations from the city’s general fund, totaling just over $4 million.
Members of the council and public alike showed support for the funding boost. “Two-hundred-some thousand people like me...
With the November elections less than a month away, congressional candidates debated in the latest “Windows on the World” forum on Oct. 3 at the UCR Extension Center. As longtime residents of Riverside County, Democrat Mark Takano and Republican John Tavaglione are competing to represent the 41st Congressional District in the upcoming election. Voters in November will decide which...
On Nov. 26, members of the ASUCR Senate listened to Fortino Morales, Staff Coordinator of the UCR Community Garden, as he gave a quick presentation about three new projects that were approved by The Green Action Campus Plan (GCAP). Later on in the Senate meeting, funding for each project was approved by ASUCR.
The projects are: A student restroom made...
Members of ASUCR unanimously passed a resolution last week expressing “no confidence” in the UC Board of Regents and UC President Janet Napolitano in the wake of the recently approved UC tuition plan. Another notable resolution was also passed, which urges UCPD personnel to complete 16 hours of ethnic and gender studies courses as protests over police brutality continue...
The American Enterprise Institute has named Thomas Smith, the dean of UCR’s Graduate School of Education (GSOE), one of 200 influential educational scholars. Smith placed 168th out of university-based researchers nationwide.
The rankings, based on eight separate metrics including web visibility and attention in both mainstream and educational press, are designed to determine which scholars had the most influence regarding...
UC Riverside’s Center of Ideas and Society was awarded $500,000 in 2014 from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and $250,000 of this grant will be used toward funding the “Advancing Intercultural Studies” (AIS) project. Due to a perceived lack of practices of “civil discourse, reasoned debate and respect for the view of others,” the project aims to address the most...