Highlander Newsroom 02/25/15
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...
Center for Ideas and Society hosts seminar on growing economic inequality in the U.S.
UCR’s Center for Ideas and Society hosted a seminar called “Race, Class, and Donald Trump: The Politics of Inequality Now” with speaker Walter Benn Michaels, an English professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago,...
“If they fought for us then, we should fight for them now”
Last Tuesday, April 24 was the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, where 1.5 million Christian Armenians were killed by the Young Turks in World War I. The Young Turks overthrew Turkey’s Sultan Abdul Hamid...
Journalist Soledad O’Brien will be the speaker for the Hays Press-Enterprise lecture
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien will be delivering the Hays Press-Enterprise lecture on Tuesday, April 19 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. The lecture is titled “An Afternoon With Soledad O’Brien: Her Life Stories.”
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News in Brief: UCR is ranked in the top 1% of universities around the...
According to the World University Rankings of 2021, UCR has once again been listed among the top 1% of universities around the world. For this year, UCR was ranked at no. 242 of the...
UCR teams with Johns Hopkins to host STEM workshop
The University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) recently collaborated to host a STEM workshop for more than 60 middle school and...
Student representatives vote to abandon UC SHIP
“The Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC), along with the Graduate Student Association (GSA), have voted in favor of opting out of the UC Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) and choosing to go with a...
Goodbye R’Gear, hello puppies
Critics of ASUCR’s decision to spend nearly $35,000 on R’Gear sweaters were left perplexed this week as ASUCR announced its decision to instead use these funds to buy puppies. In a plan catchily named...
UCR’s potential breakthrough in Diabetes and Cancer treatment
Researchers at UC Riverside are pioneering breakthrough research that may substantially benefit the way medicine is taken for diabetes and cancer patients. Needles and injections could be old news as patients may find themselves...
UCR Student Recreation Center set to reopen at 10% capacity
For over one year, the Student Recreation Center at UCR has had its doors closed and operations on pause in accordance with the coronavirus safety guidelines set in place by the state and the...