The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant totaling $454,866 for the continuation of a project led by UCR Professor of Psychology, David Funder.
This study has been published in the “Journal of Personality” and is known as The World at 7: Comparing the Experience Across 20 Countries, and encaptures the behavior of people spanning the globe and...
Patents on developments such as the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, the nicotine patch used to help cigarette-smokers crush their habit and the Camarosa strawberry have all helped to bring in revenue into the UC system, earning over $500 million for the schools and faculty involved.
Because of the potential royalties, licensing fees and stock holdings to be earned through patents,...
This past April, the U.S. Department of Education fined the for-profit Corinthian College system $30 million for misleading loan agencies and students regarding the ability of their graduates to obtain jobs. Soon after, Corinthian College shut down all of its Everest, Heald, WyoTech and online campuses, halting the education of 13,000 California students.
In response, Assemblyman Jose Medina (D-Riverside) and...
On Thursday, Oct.15, UCR held an emergency earthquake drill at 10:15 a.m. as part the “Great California Shake Out,” a regional drill which seeks to encourage preparedness for a large magnitude 7.8 earthquake. UCR students joined 10 million other people across the state who participated in this drill.
Since 2006, seismology experts have predicted that “the big one,” an over-7.0...
Rusty Bailey, mayor of Riverside, spoke at the Bell Tower on Wednesday about private partnerships between the city of Riverside and their aim to strengthen job security for UCR graduates.
“Riverside truly has a great partnership between our private sector partners in downtown trying to improve the life of the city to help you connect to jobs. Ultimately in the...
The Associated Students of UCR (ASUCR) approved appointments to several offices at last Wednesday’s senate meeting. After the appointments, legislation on a key resolution pertaining to student representation on the Board of UC Regents was also passed, along with bylaw modifications and a presentation regarding an update on the Highlander Empowerment Referendum at Costo Hall.
Mark Brown, a third-year engineering...
The UC Riverside library received the Latino Americans: 500 Years of History (LA 500) grant that will be used to host a series of cultural events on and around campus. The grant was awarded through a competitive process against two hundred other organizations in the U.S.
The proceeds of the grant, totaling $10,000, will be used to fund free events...
Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel Wu's research investigating perceptual narrowing at the neural level disproves the prevalent idea that we lose certain abilities from underuse.
Perceptual narrowing is a behavioral and neurological theory that states that our brain's sensitivity to distinguish between foreign stimuli declines as we become more acclimated to our current environment. This is because during our early...
Protests erupt in UCLA over blackface allegations
Hundreds of protesters came out to UCLA on Thursday, Oct. 8 to protest the campus’ Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority for throwing a “Kanye Western” themed party on Oct. 6. According to various students testimonies, the attendants at the party wore black face, baggy clothing, plump lips and padded bottoms...
UCR professor of entomology Richard Stouthamer and faculty members Akif Eskalen, and R. Duncan Selby have created a plastic trap using a 3-D printer to combat the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB), an invasive ambrosia beetle of the weevil subfamily that is infecting avocado trees across California.
The beetle's first recorded California infestation occurred in 2003. Although it originated in...