Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Senators pursue trolley and campus storage project

Rounding off the third week of winter quarter, ASUCR senators reported the progress of various projects such as the reinstatement of the trolley system, which has been out of commission since 2011. Aiming to...

Napolitano, Wilcox discuss student transfer process

On Tuesday, May 5, UC President Janet Napolitano met with UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox and community college representatives in San Bernardino and Riverside County to discuss how to improve the UC transfer process for...

Voter registration committee proposes an added feature on R’Web that will increase voter engagement

The Voter Engagement Workgroup is organized by Student Life and consists of students from various organizations including ResLife, CalPIRG, ASUCR, ASPB, Mi Familia Vota, the Women’s Resource Center and the UC Advocacy Network. These...

UC gains capital from selling stocks

For the 2015 fiscal year, the University of California has benefitted financially from cutting fees and through a divestment of $10 billion of its portfolio stock holdings. UC Chief Investment Officer Jagdeep Singh Bachher initiated...

Funds given to medical school could be given to county hospital

A potential $1.5 million in funding from Riverside County, initially dedicated to the UC Riverside School of Medicine, could be used instead toward the replacement of equipment at the Riverside County Regional Medical Center...

Torn political posters puncture ASUCR senatorial debates

With nearly 50 senatorial candidates running in the upcoming elections, independents and a handful of members from each political party — SIDE, ABC: A Better Choice and Vox Populi — spoke during last Monday’s...

UCR physics and astronomy department educates public on lunar eclipses

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...

UCR receives $29.7 million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act...

On Thursday, April 9, the U.S. Department of Education, in accordance with provisions within the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, released a distribution plan that states the exact...

UCR’s Office of Institutional Research data shows six-year graduation rate rises to 76%

According to UCR’s Office of Institutional Research, the university’s graduation rate has risen by 10 percentage points over the last six years. The data includes the amount of UCR’s 2013 freshmen cohort that graduated...

What you should expect to see on the 2016 ballot

November 2016 marks the next major election and is set to feature a few new measures and potentially many more to be voted on on the California ballot alone. Some of these possible items...