UCR researchers uncover new hacking methods to steal personal information

This October, UCR computer science researchers successfully accomplished side channel GPU attacks using direct and cross computational stacks, or in layman’s terms, indirectly used computer graphics systems to attack multiple programs at once. Three...

Georgia professor speaks about undocumented students at UCR

Last Thursday evening, Laura Emiko Soltis, a professor of human rights at Freedom University in Georgia, gave her keynote address to a full room at UC Riverside’s Center for Ideas and Society. Soltis kicked...

Highlander Newsroom (5/11/16)

This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about Spring Splash, the legal smoking age in California being raised to 21 and Chancellor Kim Wilcox and his Physical Master Plan. We also give a special goodbye...

Former Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs James Sandoval violated UC sexual harassment policy

A 298-page investigative report released by the UC Office of the President details a pattern of inappropriate behavior in direct violation of the UC’s Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment (SVSH) policy on the part...

The Lab: World’s oldest diamonds are fake, according to UCR researchers

Nearly half a decade ago, geologists believed that they had discovered petite gems inside zircon crystals from Western Australia’s Jack Hills, which were considered to be the world’s oldest diamonds. The minerals were considered...

The Referendum Process

According to UCR Policies, a referendum is a way for students to initiate a self-assessed fee in support of a registered student organization, student government, or other campus program. They must stand to benefit...

PASSED AND SHREDDED

Held under the premise of a secret ballot vote, ASUCR senators voted on a series of controversial resolutions including one to end funding to companies accused of supporting apartheid, particularly in Israel. The legality...

Former UCR student presents on the Arab Spring

On Wednesday, Feb. 21, former UCR student and current UC Irvine sociology doctorate candidate Arman Azedi gave a lecture at UC Riverside focused on the cause of the Arab Spring. The lecture, sponsored by...

Wilcox: Plans for event center delayed: Chancellor Wilcox provides update on campus expansion

At a meeting for the Citizens University Committee on Wednesday, May 24, Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox discussed the current plans for the expansion of the UCR campus. According to the Press-Enterprise, Wilcox was asked...

UCR School of Medicine bill passes in senate committee

Senate Bill 21, which requests $15 million in state funding for UCR’s School of Medicine, received unanimous, bipartisan accreditation at the Senate Education Committee last Wednesday, April 17. The bill is now being passed...