UCR held two planning workshops to seek the input of the campus community in determining the future of physical space on campus last Tuesday, Feb. 24. The first workshop, held in the HUB, was designed for students, staff and faculty while the second was intended for community members and held in the University Extension Center.
The workshops are part of...
John Russo, former Alameda city manager and Oakland city council member, was hired as the Riverside city manager on Feb. 19, according to city officials. The 56-year-old will become the permanent replacement for the current interim city manager Scott Barber.
“John Russo really stood out among the many exceptional candidates who sought to lead our city’s more than 2,400 employees,”...
UCR researchers will receive $835,000 of a $9 million grant over a span of three years to study the cardiovascular effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on two species of fish, the coastal redfish and pelagic mahi mahi. The rest of the grant will go to the University of Miami — who is leading the project —...
Holly Mayton, a first-year Ph.D. student in chemical and environmental engineering, was selected to attend the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2015 Agricultural Outlook Forum entitled, "Smart Agriculture in the 21st Century,” which exposes participants to scientific research and agricultural policies. She is one of 30 college students — 10 graduate students and 20 university juniors and seniors — who...
ASUCR passed a series of constitutional amendments at last week’s senate meeting that they hope will be ratified by students during the 2015 elections. The amendments would make it easier to recall elected officials, and also seek to change the selection process for two key executive branch positions, effectively shifting power away from the executive branch.
Currently, ASUCR officials can...
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we talk about UCR's plans for expansion and how outreach can be improved, debate the merits of ASUCR's $40,000 program to hand out free sweatshirts to freshmen, and touch on how Omarion danced the night away at Winter Soulstice.
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A series of four robberies — including two home invasions — occurred near campus on the night of Feb. 17. The first incident occurred at 7:30 p.m. near Spruce Street and Watkins Drive when a suspect approached a victim who was seated in a car, and, brandishing a handgun, demanded the victim’s money. The suspect took the money and...
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones spoke at UCR on Thursday as part of the School of Public Policy’s seminar series, in which well-known policymakers — including former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich — are invited to discuss major policy challenges, both regional and global.
Jones is a Democrat and former legal aid attorney who has served as insurance commissioner since...
The need to improve ASUCR’s trigger warning response was brought up at their meeting last week. Due to a lack of notice from Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust (SAH) — the off-campus, anti-abortion organization who posted the display — two billboards were posted on the east and west side of the Bell Tower last Wednesday without a warning being...
UCR’s School of Public Policy will be launching the Blum Poverty Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty in the fall of 2015. The brainchild of former Chairman of the UC Board of Regents Richard Blum, the initiative will aim to educate students about issues relating to poverty both globally and in inland Southern California in the hopes of improving...