Eaton Science Fiction Conference
From April 11-14, the Marriott hotel in downtown Riverside will be hosting the 34th annual Eaton Science Fiction Conference. The conference is sponsored by UCR’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), the UCR libraries and the Science Fiction Research Association, a leading society in the field. The conference will honor author Ursula K. Le...
Parts of University Ave. were shut down Wednesday, March 13 following shootings at a nearby apartment complex and on the I-215 offramp.
Around 7:20 p.m., Daniel John Jones, a 44-year-old Hispanic male of Chino Hills shot two individuals at the apartment complex located at 5310 Canyon Crest Dr.
According to a press release from the Riverside Police Department, Jones was visiting...
Held under the premise of a secret ballot vote, ASUCR senators voted on a series of controversial resolutions including one to end funding to companies accused of supporting apartheid, particularly in Israel. The legality of voting procedures is being questioned, which raises issues of transparency for the undergraduate student government. The ASUCR constitution and bylaws set ambiguous guidelines for...
The 11th annual UC Student Lobby Conference served as an opportunity for student leaders to lobby the state’s elected representatives and organize workshop sessions to inform the public about a wide variety of issues. Several ASUCR senators attended the conference, which took place March 1-4 in Sacramento, and shared their thoughts on what the conference meant to them and...
UCSD robots fighting robots
Robot Combat League, a new television series on the Syfy network, brings reality robot combat on screen. Saura Naderim, UC San Diego engineering physics alumnus, was cast as one of the dozen robot-techs who control the fighting movement of the humanoid robots.
The weekly show features 12 teams of individuals teamed up with an 8-foot, 1000-pound humanoid...
A student-led group has organized the National Leadership Summit for Immigration, a conference to be held on March 16 that will include a panel of congressmen, assemblymen and prominent scholars from across the United States.
“The goal of the event is to educate and make people more conscious of the immigration reform. You know, we hear a lot of things...
On the evening of Wednesday, March 6, UCR Professor of History Emeritus Dr. Carlos Cortés gave a talk titled “Multicultural America in a Globalizing World.” Taking place at the Mission Inn, the event was hosted by the World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California. The discussion emphasized the connection between people from different national origins. Cortés defined multi-ethnic as...
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Dallas Rabenstein hosted a town hall meeting on Feb. 25 to discuss the current status of UC Riverside’s budget. Despite some disheartening information provided about the current financial status of UCR, there was still an optimistic outlook into the future of the university.
Some of the notable administrators in attendance included Chancellor Jane Conoley, Vice...
The night of Feb. 27 was filled with confusion and angst within the Senate Chambers, as ASUCR senators voted to table a resolution that would support permanently proportioning the number of elected senators to each respective college. The executive cabinet (ECAB) plans to restructure the internal workings of each branch of government. During the meeting, the senate also approved...
Breakthrough in Hummingbird Research
It was always thought that the hummingbird’s flight generated a single trail of vortices that helped it fly. A vortex, or mass of whirling air, is created during the hummingbird’s downstroke. The wing movement causes an air pressure difference to develop and this creates flow from the bottom to the top of the wing.
Researchers from UC...