An advisory panel has recently suggested a plan to the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees that endorses steadily increasing tuition rates annually at CSU schools.
The plan is currently still being drafted into a report and is expected to be finalized and released in full to the CSU Board in November and reviewed in January. If the plan...
On Monday, September 2, a male undergraduate was sexually harassed by another man at approximately 7:47 a.m. The indecent exposure incident marked the fifth criminal activity during a time span of two weeks at UCR.
Of those crimes, there were two robberies, one sexual battery and one theft of a cell phone on campus. To combat the misdemeanors, the UCPD...
On November 3, 2015 the R’Pantry hosted a preview day at the Bear’s Den from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students were encouraged to bring reusable bags, though bags were also provided by R’Pantry volunteers, to fill up on supplemental food items equating a week’s worth of food. The next operation for food distribution through the R’Pantry is December...
A team of students from UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering recently won a $15,000 grant for a reusable storm drain filter that is more cost-efficient and less harmful to the environment than other models. The grant, awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is a phase one reward in the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) competition.
The team...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about our Halloween weekend, new information on meat causing cancer and Obama's decision to limit standardized testing.
Be sure to catch the Highlander Newsroom on the radio, airing every Wednesday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m., only on KUCR 88.3 FM.
In a video released on Saturday Oct. 24, President Barack Obama and his administration called for a 2 percent cap on the amount of classroom time teachers could allot to prepare for standardized testing. In addition to this announcement, the Obama administration took responsibility for their part in highlighting tests as the sole method of holding schools, teachers and...
The UC Regents held a public forum on Monday, Oct. 26 to discuss the UC Statement of Principles Against Intolerance, which addresses policies regarding discriminatory behavior. Nine UC Riverside students, including Marcela Ramirez, the UC student regent designate, attended the meeting.
The UC Statement of Principles Against Intolerance is under review after a draft was rejected by the regents, a...
In light of California’s long-standing drought, UCR professor of botany and plant sciences, Darrel Jenerette, is beginning an urban tree project to determine if cooling provided by urban trees saves water. Data has been gathered from over 1,300 trees in Southern California, with more than 300 people contributing since last August.
The research seeks to explore how trees and other...
On Oct. 29 the UCR School of Public Policy (SPP) and the Center for Sustainable Suburban Development hosted a Climate Change Panel seminar at the UCR Extension Center.
The seminar featured speakers Dean Bonner, associate survey director at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), Penny Newman, executive director at the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, Brinda Sarathy,...
Chemistry Professor Ludwig Bartels and his team of graduate students and researchers have been working with the students at University of Ausburg, Germany to invent a film that would improve the quality of optical telecommunication in electronic devices. Optical telecommunication — or optical communication — is essentially the exchange that occurs when light utilizes fiber optics instead of electrical...