UCR Professor of History and Costo Chair in Native American Studies Clifford Trafzer has been awarded a $50,400 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete research on the medicinal practices of Native Americans in Southern California. His research will primarily focus on how successful the indigenous peoples’ efforts to work with white nurses on eradicating tuberculosis...
Each of the 10 University of California campuses will begin working on making changes in regards to housing, hiring more faculty and expanding the support services that are already offered, in order to accommodate the expected increase in enrollment by 6,500 students in the system next fall. Individually, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and UCR are prepared to...
On Wed. Jan. 20, the School of Public Policy held a seminar at the Center for Sustainable Suburban Development discussing accountability amongst city government officials. The event was led by LA Times writers Mariel Garza and Robert Greene, who discussed how the editorial board came up with the concept of issuing “report cards” on the performances of city officials...
UC Riverside will be working with Washington University in St. Louis and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland in developing an application called DocNow, which will be used to help archive social media content posted during the occurrence of significant events.
The project, called “Documenting the Now: Support Scholarly Use and Preservation of...
UCR economist receives $100,000 grant
UCR Economics Professor Steven Helfand has received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service to analyze the productivity of farms in Brazil.
The economist will join an international team of researchers from the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the University of Connecticut, USDA’s Economic Research Service, the World...
On Friday, Jan. 22, BOOM: A Journal of California hosted an evening at the Alumni and Visitors Center celebrating the release of the journal’s latest issue entitled, “Getting Religion.” The night was filled with music, food and drinks along with a forum aimed at discussing the role of religion as well as defining what it means to be religious...
San Francisco State University (SFSU) professor emeritus Wade Nobles gave a lecture on Jan. 19 entitled “Yesterday is History, Today is a Miracle, Tomorrow is a Mystery: History is the Key to Unlocking the Mystery of the Miracle.” The lecture, held for a crowd of 60 in HUB 302 South was hosted by UCR Psychology Professor Carolyn Murray as...
On Thursday, Jan. 21, professors of creative writing Nalo Hopkinson and Rachelle Cruz and Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature, Jaymee Goh, met in INTS 1111A to discuss their experiences curating, editing and writing for science fiction and fantasy anthologies driven by communities of color. The panel was moderated by recent post-doctoral fellow, Brian Hudson, who studies science fiction from...
For the first time in UCR’s history, the university received over 50,000 applicants for undergraduate admissions, a record number. Of the 52,467 total applicants, 41,559 were freshmen applicants and 10,908 were transfer applicants.
More than 206,000 students applied to University of California schools. Across the system, there was a 5.2 percent increase in freshmen applicants and a 11.8 percent increase...
On Monday, Jan. 11, Columbia University Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Mark Hatzenbuehler gave a seminar to address how social policies and attitudes affect the mental health of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) individuals in the U.S. The seminar was held in HUB 269 and was packed to maximum capacity with a crowd of about 40 people.
The professor...