A lecture on lunar eclipses was held in Bourns Hall Room A265 Friday, September 25, before the super moon total lunar eclipse that took place Sunday night. The talk was conducted by Mario De Leo-Winkler, a physics and astronomy postdoctoral researcher at UCR.
With a room of about 30 attendees, Leo-Winkler began by shedding light on a few basic facts...
On Sunday morning Sept. 20, around 20 community members gathered to take part in a peace walk held by the newly formed organization, Glocally Connected, to bring awareness to the Syrian refugee crisis.
With International Peace Day taking place Sept. 21, Glocally Connected organizers Selin Yildiz Nielsen and Sherry MacKay assembled a small group of people from UCR, the city...
The UC Regents held their monthly regents meeting at UC Irvine on Sept. 15-17. The system’s free speech policy became a prominent issue as a first draft to include a statement on the UC system’s position on intolerance was rejected.
According to the proposed statement, “Intolerance has no place at the University of California. We define intolerance as unwelcome conduct...
As race relations dominate the national spotlight, UCR sociology professor Dr. David A. Swanson, a distinguished demographer, released a vignette comparing the socioeconomic makeup of Mississippi and Hawaii on September 16, 2015, which highlights racial disparities between the two states and political changes which affected the state’s demographics.
Swanson’s essay was released in advance of an event called “What Can...
John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana, will visit UC Riverside at the University Theatre to give an address on Oct 2. The event will start at 6:00 p.m while doors open at 5:30 p.m. and will be free and open to the public.
President Mahama’s address will be entitled “The African Diaspora: Possibilities and Privileges of Empowerment in this Technological...
UCR physics and astronomy professor Gillian Wilson, along with graduate students Andrew DeGroot and Ryan Foltz have helped discover a galaxy cluster — regions of space which contain hundreds of galaxies — with researchers across the UC system.
This cluster, which lies 10 billion light-years away, is forming stars 800 times the mass of our sun in as little as...
UCR’s School of Public Policy will celebrate the launch of its master’s program on September 25th, 2015. The event will be attended by the inaugural class of 29 students, as well as policy-makers, legislators and family members of the students.
The keynote address will be given by Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), president pro tempore of the California and first...
Associate Professor of Musicology Leonora Saavedra, of the UCR Department of Music has been denominated as the scholar-in-residence for the Bard Music Festival in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
The festival is in its 26th year of operation and is renowned as being one of the most influential institutions for classical music. This year’s festival is centered around Mexican composer Carlos Chavez,...
U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 Best Colleges Guide was released earlier this month, with UCR placing 121st on the list.
In 2010, UCR held a spot in the top 100 schools in the nation at 94. Despite a discouraging 27-place fall in ranking since then, UCR’s Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox is not alarmed. Wilcox believes that public schools should...
The Department of Gender and Sexuality studies at UCR will launch a bachelor of science degree program for sustainability studies in fall. The program will focus on social and environmental justice issues such as climate change, air and water pollution, toxic contamination, energy demands, economic growth, agricultural production and environmental degradation.
Students in the new program will be required to...