TruEvolution, a Riverside organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues and HIV-AIDS prevention and elimination, will host an event on April 23 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The event, entitled AIDS Advocacy Night, will work to educate the public and dispel myths about LGBT people, HIV and AIDS.
AIDS Advocacy Night will be the first annual...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we discuss the ASUCR elections, talk about ways students can save water after California Governor Jerry Brown's drought announcement, and get excited over this year's Spring Splash lineup.
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.
Food truck fans are expected to flock once again toward the HUB Plaza, Bell Tower and Rivera walkway on April 15, as the UCR Housing, Dining and Residential Services in collaboration with ASUCR will host the Fourth Annual Food Truck Festival. Students and the Riverside community will be able to taste various culinary creations from 23 popular and unique...
UCR’s Department of Physics and Astronomy will hold an open house exhibition, free to the public, on Highlander Day, April 18. The exhibition will occur from 1-3:30 p.m. in the Physics Building.
The event will contain hands-on physics demonstrations, tours of the research laboratories and presentations on current campus research done by the department. In the past, demonstrations have displayed...
The Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) will partner with Pearson, a global education program, to create a new online masters engineering program by fall 2015. The two-year program will have nine course requirements for a total of 36 units.
Of the required courses, four will focus on engineering management, four on specializations and one on project design. Specializations will include:...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — in Geneva, Switzerland has restarted operations for the first time in two years at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) facilities. The LHC has been upgraded to operate at nearly double the energy capacity of previous operations, going from 7 tera-electron volts to 13 tera-electron...
Multiple Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG), including California’s CALPIRG, have published a report entitled the Billion Dollar Program, which displays the possibility for open textbooks to save $1.5 billion in textbook costs for students nationwide.
Open textbooks are faculty-written peer-reviewed textbooks that are published with an open license. This allows the textbooks to be available for free online, via download...
Side, a political party that dominated ASUCR elections last year, was banned after a recent judicial decision ruled that the party carried out discriminatory practices. The case, which extended the application deadline for candidates, led to the formation of three new ASUCR political parties, including the re-emergence of CR.
The case was brought forward by a student, according to ASUCR...
Despite the windy weather conditions, unwavering support groups for the political parties Voice, CR and PAC: Pride, Action, Change were in attendance as director debates occurred last Wednesday.
Candidates running for the positions of personnel director, marketing and promotions director and outreach director discussed changes they would make within their respective positions, the relationship between ASUCR and the student body...
ASUCR voted unanimously last Wednesday to put the Highlander Empowerment Referendum on the 2015 ballot, which, if passed by the student body, will increase funding for UCR’s seven ethnic and gender programs starting in fall 2015. Two new CHASS senators and one new BCOE senator were also welcomed to the student government to take the places of senators who...