On the morning of June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States voted on two key decisions that will pave the way for same-sex couples in California to marry and allow other same-sex couples around the nation to receive previously-denied benefits.
Firstly, the Court struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a law signed...
In response to growing ambitions to create a more welcoming environment for the “rolling restaurants,” Riverside County is holding a food truck festival on June 25.
Located in front of the County Administration office, the food truck gathering is being spearheaded by Riverside County Supervisor Kevin Jeffries, who was cited as saying in a press release, “Riverside County needs to...
UCR: Deceased male guppies store sperm for almost a year
Researchers from UC Riverside have found that female Trinidadian guppies are able to store sperm cells inside their bodies for at least 10 months until the optimal conditions to fertilize their eggs are met.
Since female guppies live on average six to eight times longer than their male counterparts — two...
Barbara Wu, a 21-year-old undergraduate student at UC Riverside was recently charged with five counts of felony including solicitation of murder. Wu allegedly asked boyfriend Dennis Lin to kidnap, harm and kill one of her ex-boyfriends.
“She wanted me to tie him up, use a bat to break his legs, kill him, then discard the body,” Lin stated in a...
UC Riverside placed 24th among 30 best non-historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) for minority students in the United States, according to Dr. Matthew Lynch, the chair and associate professor of education at Langston University and author of the list. Published in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, the list factors in the percentage of enrolled minority students, freshman retention...
On May 23, the California Senate subcommittee on education passed Senate Bill 27 (SB 27), which will allocate an annual fund of $15 million for the UCR School of Medicine in the state budget. Delivering a joint letter for the allocation request, state Senator Richard Roth and state Assemblymember Jose Medina expressed that the UCR School of Medicine will...
Started at UC Riverside, the Immortality Project has awarded 10 different research teams from both the U.S. and Europe $2.4 million in science grants. Distinguished UCR Professor of Philosophy John Martin Fischer initiated the project after he was given a $5 million dollar grant by the John Temple Foundation in July 2012 to oversee the three-year multidisciplinary study on...
UCR: Graduate student constructs “human colon simulation”
Ian Marcus, a former graduate student from UCR's Bourns College of Engineering, spent nearly a year constructing a replica of a human colon, septic tank and groundwater. According to UCR Today, through comparisons of his own work with researchers who worked with isolated bacteria, Marcus discovered that “the E. coli strain in the...
UC Riverside: Study finds that ethicists have average moral values
In a recent study conducted by philosophy professors Eric Schwitzgebel of UC Riverside and Joshua Rust of Stetson University, Florida, ethicists — professors who teach ethics — were found to be no more ethical than non-ethicists. In the experiment, ethicists stated that not responding to students’ e-mails was ethically wrong....
The New America Foundation has bestowed the title of “Next Generation University” to UC Riverside for its expanding enrollment and high graduation rates despite increasing economic pressures and declining revenue from the state. UCR is one of six campuses in the country to be honored with the recognition.
The foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that addresses issues...