ASUCR senators unanimously passed a resolution to promote awareness and education of mental health services by collaborating with UCR’s Student Wellness Partners and Active Minds.
Authored by Vice President of External Affairs Kareem Aref and UCR students Morgan Nixon and Monika Vermani, the resolution is being prompted by incidents such as at UC Berkeley, where a third-year undergraduate, Maliq Nixon,...
UCR psychologists Aaron Seitz, Daniel Ozer and Jenni Deveau launched a one-year vision-based study, which improved the performance of UCR baseball players, who received 41 additional runs and four additional wins throughout the season.
In 2013, 19 of 37 UCR baseball players who participated in games saw a 31 percent improvement in visual acuity over the 18 who did not....
During a five-hour-long Senate meeting in UCR’s Tartan and Tweed Room on Feb. 12, over 10 student speakers debated over a senate resolution entitled, “Divestment from Companies that Profit from Apartheid,” which urges the UC to divest its asset holdings from various companies that reinforce the alleged apartheid system and military occupation in Israel’s Palestinian territories.
Divestment supporters, such as...
UCR’s United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) held a protest in support of union AFSCME 3299 last Wednesday. The protest consisted of making Valentine’s Day cards, signed by multiple student organizations such as La Union Estudiantil de la Raza and Mujeres Unidas, which were then personally delivered to UCR’s Office of the Chancellor in Hinderaker Hall.
For the past 20 months,...
When Yunzeng Wang received the call informing him that he had been named the permanent dean of the School of Business Administration (SoBA) last month, he admitted that he was not fully prepared to hear the news.
“At that point, I was enjoying my research and my teaching,” he said. “(It was) something that happened in a short period of...
UCR’s School of Medicine has announced that it will begin a three-year residency program centered in the Coachella Valley starting in 2015, a move that will further expand the fledgling school and provide more medical care to residents in the region. The announcement comes after the program was granted accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)...
Located in the Box Springs Mountains, the Botanic Gardens at UC Riverside will receive an endowment of $1.3 million from the bequest of Dr. Victor H. Goodman, a founder of the gardens, and his wife, Marjorie Goodman. The endowment will support the garden’s overall maintenance and expand plant collections.
“We are thrilled and grateful that the Botanic Gardens were remembered...
A first-of-its-kind study by UCR professor of cell biology Manuela Martins-Green indicates that exposure to thirdhand smoke may be harmful to humans. Previous studies have examined the effects of first- and secondhand smoke (FHS and SHS respectively), but the research by Martins-Green is the first to examine the effects of thirdhand smoke on animals.
Whereas firsthand smoke is the inhalation...
UC President Janet Napolitano met with 10 veteran-student representatives from each UC campus on Jan. 31 and announced the formation of a systemwide veterans’ advisory group on Feb. 3. The group seeks to address unique challenges for current and incoming veterans in higher education by increasing communication about financial aid and improving training for staff who deal with veterans’...
When third-year creative writing major Richard Lu explained how he got his ticket in time for the upcoming HEAT festival, he said, "I wanted to make sure that I'd get a HEAT ticket so I lined up on the very first day. I think the (line) was fine; it moved at an efficient speed because there are a lot...