The University of California has received $1.9 million in funding to establish the Institute for the Study of Ecological and Evolutionary Climate Impacts (ISEECI), an institute that will study the ecological effects of climate change across many kinds of ecosystems. The research will be conducted on three UCR reserves and will include biology professors Kimberly Hammond, Michael Allen and...
UC Riverside will be one of six UCs to receive additional legal services for undocumented students, according to UC officials. The move comes one day after President Barack Obama announced his immigration reform plan on Nov. 20.
The UC Davis School of Law will host a pilot legal services center to accommodate UC schools without law schools, which includes: UC...
In April 2013, the University Task Force on Safety (UTFS) released 40 recommendations to improve campus safety after a string of crimes occurred earlier that year. By earlier this quarter, the university had met or was in the process of completing over half of these recommendations, which included the installation of 14 wireless surveillance cameras around campus.
UCPD Assistant Chief...
On Friday night Dec. 5, Child Development Center (CDC) staff abruptly interrupted an R’Kids movie night when a kindergarten teacher told the moviegoers (about 20 student parents and their children) that the space would no longer be available to them. The CDC had decided to convert the family housing community center into a kindergarten classroom due to limited space...
This week on the Highlander Newsroom, we discuss ASUCR's unanimous vote of no confidence in the UC Board of Regents and UC President Janet Napolitano. We also chat about how we're coping with finals and send off fall quarter with a big farewell.
Be sure to catch the Highlander Newsroom on the radio, airing every Wednesday at 9 a.m. and...
As students across the university anxiously await the end of quarter and a new year, UC Riverside psychology professor Dr. Kate Sweeny has helped determine which time periods and for whom periods of waiting are difficult for. This research, in turn, may help determine appropriate coping strategies for those who are waiting for uncertain news.
The project involved 50 law...
The School of Public Policy (SOPP) at UC Riverside seeks to implement an annual professional degree supplemental tuition (PDST) of $5,952 on top of its regular tuition starting in the 2015-16 academic year. PDST is an additional fee that graduate students are required to pay.
Announced during the November UC Board of Regents meeting, the PDST will apply to the...
Nearly 60 bodies laid strewn on the floor of the HUB Plaza as part of a “die-in” event, which commemorated the lives lost from police brutality throughout the nation. Organized by African Student Programs (ASP), the Dec. 5 event recognized notable African Americans such as Mike Brown and Eric Garner, both of whom were killed due to police violence.
Against...
On Dec. 3, renowned activist and author Todd Gitlin gave a lecture on the effects of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the future of social media protests at UCR. The lecture was held as part of an interdisciplinary collaboration between the global studies, creative writing and sociology departments on campus as well as the Institute for Research on...
Members of ASUCR unanimously passed a resolution last week expressing “no confidence” in the UC Board of Regents and UC President Janet Napolitano in the wake of the recently approved UC tuition plan. Another notable resolution was also passed, which urges UCPD personnel to complete 16 hours of ethnic and gender studies courses as protests over police brutality continue...