The application deadline to run in the 2015 ASUCR elections has been extended from Feb. 27 to March 13 due to a pending judicial decision regarding a candidate. This allows time for potential candidates to form a party, change their candidacy or party affiliation, or apply for candidacy if they are interested in running in elections.
According to Elections Director...
The audience was packed at the most recent ASUCR meeting as numerous student organizations including Providing Opportunities, Dreams and Education in Riverside (PODER), urged ASUCR to approve the creation of a food pantry on campus to help alleviate food expenses for students.
After a lengthy presentation and discussion, ASUCR unanimously approved a resolution that would create a development committee with...
UCR researchers have made strides in preparing a battery with 10 times more power than conventional batteries for commercialization. The research team has found a way to combat the lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery’s short lifespan, one of the major obstacles to Li-S batteries becoming widely available.
Every battery contains two electrodes, the negative anode (the “minus side”) and the positive cathode...
As ASUCR’s R’Gear initiative draws to a close, controversies have surfaced regarding what has been perceived as poor organization, a lack of transparency and questionable labor practices in the student government’s effort to boost campus pride by giving out free sweatshirts.
While R’Gear’s initial release for freshmen on Feb. 18 ran smoothly, the extended release last Wednesday, the first day...
Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Glendale) has proposed a bill to create an 11th UC campus geared toward science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM), despite general concerns about the university system’s current financial state. Gatto envisions “UC Tech” to be the UC equivalent of the private California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
AB 1483 would require $50 million for land acquisition...
Nonresident enrollment — including out-of-state and international students — at UCLA and UC Berkeley will be capped for the upcoming fall quarter unless additional state appropriations are made, according to UC President Janet Napolitano. UC San Diego will also be limited to a nonresident enrollment rate of no more than 20 percent. Meanwhile, all other UCs will be required...
Two police officers were called to Aberdeen-Inverness (A-I) Residence Hall at 7 p.m. on Feb. 28 to investigate a “suspicious individual” who was acting strangely.
The individual, described as an adult Asian male, arrived at the A-I lobby at around 6:50 p.m. and began yelling profanity. When asked if he needed help by the staff, he ran out of the...
Distinguished biogeochemistry professor Timothy Lyons has been honored as a 2015 Geochemical Fellow by the Geochemical Society (GS) and the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG). He is one of 10 professors this year to be selected from different universities around the world, and was given this title due to his career-long contributions to geochemical research.
“The GS and the EAG...
UCR researchers have received $1.7 million to research the cause of Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening, an incurable citrus disease that has devastated millions of plants across the world. The research is aimed at detecting and controlling the citrus psyllid, a small, flying insect that carries the bacterium, and is part of a $30 million grant from...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we talk about Riverside potentially legalizing medical marijuana dispensaries this summer, the laughs at Comedy Apocalypse XII and more about ASUCR's R'Gear sweatshirt giveaways.
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