Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have recently reported their findings on how sleep assists in the forming of long-term memories, the first mechanistic explanation for this process, in The Journal of Neuroscience.
It is believed that sleep affects learning and the formation of long-term memories, but the reasoning behind it was not identifiably clear. A team of...
On April 18, Chancellor Kim Wilcox announced medical doctor and psychiatrist, Deborah Deas, as the new dean for UCR’s School of Medicine. Deas, a former interim dean for the Medical University of South Carolina, will begin her post on May 16, 2016.
Deas has served a variety of positions during her 22-year tenure at the Medical University of South Carolina,...
The Global Issues Forum (GIF) held an event at UCR’s Alumni Center on Thursday, April 21 called “Global Drug Trafficking: Understanding the Root Causes of the International Narcotics Trade.” The panel was moderated by UCR professor of political science David Pion-Berlin and consisted of Angela Hawken, professor of public policy at Pepperdine University and Everard Meade, director of the...
ASUCR unanimously approved the “Resolution in Support of Ensuring Fair Final Exam Scheduling,” (Finals Week Resolution) at last week’s senate meeting, which urges campus administration to prevent week 10 exams or finals as they occur right before finals week. In addition, a proposed change to the ASUCR bylaws, which would separate failure to meet academic standards from censure was...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about the Spring Splash 2016 lineup, ASUCR elections results being invalidated and a possible reelection, and Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
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This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about the ASUCR elections results being delayed, the possible release of 9/11 documents that may reveal Saudi Arabia connections to the attack, major earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan and the Coachella Music Festival.
Be sure to catch the Highlander Newsroom on the radio, airing every Wednesday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at...
In a seminar hosted by the Office of Research Integrity, international health doctor Brandon Brown discussed how much payment or incentive is ethical in research studies. Brown also discussed his idea of creating a database that would provide information on the incentives given to participants. This idea is a possible solution to the problems that researchers face when deciding...
At last week’s ASUCR senate meeting, UCR’s athletic director Tamica Smith Jones spoke to the horseshoe about the improvements in the university’s athletic programs this year and how she would like to get more students involved with the department.
Jones was appointed as director of intercollegiate athletics by Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox last July to oversee the 17 men and...
On Thursday, April 14, associate professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz, Dorian Bell, visited UCR to give a talk entitled, “Axes of Otherness: Jews, Imperial Capitalism, and the Politics of Scale.” The talk was organized by the UCR Workshop on the Global 19th Century, also called the Global 19th Group and sponsored by UCR’s Center for Ideas and...
Susan J. Mazer, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology from UC Santa Barbara, gave a talk on Wednesday, April 13 about her work with the California Phenology Project (CPP), studying the effects that climate change has on California plant species.
Phenology, Mazer explained, is the study of changes in plants and animals. Flowers blooming, leaves falling off of trees...