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...
Chancellor Kim Wilcox held a town hall meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 9 to discuss the progress of UCR’s Strategic Action Plan: UCR 2020. Approximately 60 people attended the talk at the University Theatre in which the chancellor discussed slowing down the hiring process for the upcoming year, while aiming to increase graduate student and out-of-state student enrollment.
As part of...
On Feb. 8, Connor Richards, a fourth-year physics major, became the first UCR student to receive the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Richards is seeking a master of advanced study degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge in England for the 2016-2017 academic year.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship was established in 2000 through a $210 million...
MSNBC news anchor Richard Lui visited UCR on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at INTS 1109 to discuss the 2016 elections and his beginnings in journalism. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Karthick Ramakrishnan, the dean of UCR’s School of Public Policy, which sponsored the event.
Lui engaged the attendees by opening up discussion and directly conversing with audience members. He started...
Evidence of gravitational waves found
On Feb. 11, the first gravitational wave, called GW150914 by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), was detected by scientists. GW150914 was revealed after scientists heard and recorded the brief sound resulting from the collision of two black holes a billion light-years away.
Within a fifth of a second, a black hole with a mass...
UCR graduate researcher Cory Schwartz and professor of chemical and environmental engineering Ian Wheeldon have expanded the way yeast can be manipulated through the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats gene editing system (CRISPR-CAS9). With this new system, biofuels, adhesives and fragrances can be mass produced at a cheaper cost.
This specific system performs at a more precise, effective and...
UCR Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor for Geophysics Gareth Funning and a team of researchers have discovered how thrust faults can enable earthquake ruptures to jump further than distances determined in previous findings.
Funning has been collaborating with Ed Nissen of the Colorado School of Mines, John Elliott and Barry Parsons of the University of Oxford, Alastair Sloan of the...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about ASPB's Sound Clash talent competition and the Winter SOULstice lineup, ASUCR's decision to reverse the ban on laptopping, the Super Bowl and the half-time show.
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At last week’s senate meeting, amendments were made to the standing ASUCR election bylaws. Major changes were made to remove the ban on laptopping in addition to beginning exclusive voting at polling sites, limiting campaign spending and diffusing power from the elections director to the committee.
Elections Director Melina Reyes announced that the elections committee met for the first...
In protest of the Turkish and U.S. federal government’s formal lack of recognition of the Armenian genocide, the Armenian Student Association (ASA) at UCR organized a silent protest called “State of Denial” on Thursday, Feb. 4. This demonstration was part of a statewide protest organized by the All-Armenian Student Association (All-ASA) and co-sponsored by the Western and Eastern Regions...