On March 2, UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy White is expected to vote for the approval of the controversial Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) expansion project. The plan has garnered backlash from local residents due to the fact that the facility, whose operations would include hazardous waste management, would be located within a quarter-mile of UC Riverside’s Child Development Center...
A recent study conducted by sociologists Jan E. Stets of UC Riverside and Michael J. Carter of Cal State Northridge has proposed a possible link between a person’s behavior and their moral standards. The study digresses from wide spread beliefs that center on the influence of cultural forces on one’s moral inclinations. The authors believe that their study may...
In an era where the Internet reigns supreme in the lives of the young adults, you see them everywhere. Just log into your Facebook or Tumblr account and you’ll see hundreds of the comic-like pictures. They are the memes—popular images and graphics that use various reoccurring themes to convey a humorous message viewers can often relate to.
Their origin can...
The Princeton Review has recognized UC Riverside as one of the top 150 colleges in the “Best Value Colleges for 2012” list. The criteria for the list includes an examination of an educational institution’s level of academics, distribution of financial aid and the cost of attendance. Despite increased tuition among UC schools, UC Riverside has remained affordable for many...
There is a growing dissatisfaction among full-time non-tenure track (FTNT) faculty members at colleges and universities, according to a recent study co-authored by UC Riverside Graduate School of Education Professor John S. Levin. The concerns regarding a lack of employment protection and roles in departmental decision-making has left FTNT instructors viewing themselves as foreigners and detached members of their university.
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UC students, like most university and college students across the country, are continuing to take out more loans in a pattern which experts believe may result in a “debt bomb” equivalent to the mortgage crisis in 2008. Whereas the mortgage crisis left many middle and lower income families in dire conditions, the disastrous consequences of the potential “debt bomb”...
UC Riverside researchers’ discovery of a relationship between a protein and short-term memory could lead to new treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease. The link between the beta-arrestin protein to learning and memory functions has never been identified prior to this groundbreaking research.Professor Iryna M. Ethell and Crystal Pontrello, a postdoctoral researcher in Ethell’s lab, made the discovery...
Members of Occupy UC Riverside have disbanded their tent encampment within a week of Chancellor White’s call for the removal of the tents. The tents, which were initially located next to the Bell Tower but then moved to the lawns in front of the Humanities Building, had maintained their presence on campus for nearly a month after the UC...
The process of reforming UC San Francisco’s (UCSF) business model has begun with the appointment of 13 leaders to serve in the “Future of UCSF” committee. The initiative, which was first announced by UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann during the UC regents meetings at UC Riverside, will seek to reevaluate the graduate school’s relationship with the University of California. Desmond-Hellmann...
In an effort to prevent future tuition increases in the UC system, UC Berkeley Professor Brian Barsky and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader have worked towards creating a tuition-limiting initiative to put on the November state ballot. “The key idea is to use the tool of direct democracy — the initiatives that we can put on the California ballot....