On Sept. 22, 2023, the University of California, Riverside (UCR), celebrated the completion of its new Student Health and Counseling Center (SHC). According to an article by InsideUCR, the completed building is 39,450-square-foot and two stories tall.
The official website for the new SHC displays a variety of information about the services that they offer, immunization requirements, insurance details, as...
On Friday, Nov. 18, 2023, the University of California Riverside’s (UCR) chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted a rally outside of Hinderaker Hall to protest the presence of Bassam Eid on UCR campus, who SJP has characterized as a “genocide supporter.”
Hillel, a club promoting ”Jewish cultural, social, educational and religious organization,” invited Bassam Eid, a...
Professor Vasileios Christopoulos has been an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in computer science and a minor in cognitive sciences. After obtaining his Ph.D., he went onto the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as a postdoctoral fellow to pursue his interest in neuroscience. Currently, he...
The fifth Associated Students of UCR (ASUCR) Senate meeting took place on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. All senators were present, excluding Senators Alex Lu, Kevin Nguyen, Leila Haider and Naia Pizzaro. The meeting began with a land acknowledgment to the local indigenous tribes who had lived on the land before and was called to order at 7:03 p.m.
The first...
On Wednesday, Nov. 8, contenders for the Republican presidential nomination converged on the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, for the third Republican primary debate. In an expansive debate, candidates argued over issues ranging from opioids to TikTok. Three specific issues emerged as central to the conversation, garnering the most speaking time. Each candidate asserted...
This Wednesday, Nov. 8, contenders for the Republican presidential nomination will converge in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, for the third Republican primary debate. Yet, two months before the first state chooses their choice for the nomination in the January Iowa caucuses, a large crowd of contenders still remains on the field. Who...
The fourth Associated Students of UCR (ASUCR) Senate meeting took place on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. All senators were present, excluding Senators Alex Lu, Kevin Nguyen, Kaden Ho and Anjana Narasimhan. The meeting began with a land acknowledgment to the local indigenous tribes who had lived in the land before and was called to order at 7:01 p.m.
The meeting...
Last month, in the United Nations Security Council, the United States vetoed a draft resolution authored by Brazil, which called for a “humanitarian pause” in Gaza and “strongly urges the continuous, sufficient and unhindered provision of essential goods and services to civilians.”
In a vote taken by the Security Council, 12 Member States voted in favor of passage, two abstentions...
Professor Vasileios Christopoulos, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside, gained a five-million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study action regulation in Parkison’s patients that will undergo Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) to ultimately improve DBS treatment and model action regulation mechanisms happening in the brain. The study started in the summer and...
On Oct. 25, 2023, from 9 a.m.- 8 p.m., the University of California Riverside's (UCR) Memory and Resistance Laboratory staged a collective reading of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s “Memory of Forgetfulness” in an event entitled Score for Sumud.
Co-sponsored by UCR’s Center for Ideas and Society, the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dance, and Media and Cultural Studies, as...