In response to the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting that took place Dec.14 in Newtown, Conn., California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera took to his Facebook page and posted a heartfelt poem entitled, "Little Ones We Carry You.”
Much like a previous project of his, “The Most Incredible and Biggest and Most Amazing Poem on Unity in the World,” Herrera...
General Catalog now available as an Apple iBook app
UC Riverside’s 2012-2013 general catalog is now available in the Apple iBook format and can be purchased through iTunes for $4.99. It is also available as an ebook for the Amazon Kindle as well. The catalog is available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It can only be read using...
On Nov. 26, members of the ASUCR Senate listened to Fortino Morales, Staff Coordinator of the UCR Community Garden, as he gave a quick presentation about three new projects that were approved by The Green Action Campus Plan (GCAP). Later on in the Senate meeting, funding for each project was approved by ASUCR.
The projects are: A student restroom made...
UC Riverside was recently ranked the 24th most dangerous college in America, according to website Business Insider's list of the "25 Most Dangerous Colleges in America," on Nov. 20. The list, which uses the FBI's 2008-2011 Uniform Crime Report, has since come under fire from UCR and number one ranked UCLA for inaccurately portraying the data.
Following backlash from the...
A Riverside resident was one of four men charged with conspiracy to provide material support to Al-Qai’da and the Taliban in order to target American troops in Afghanistan on Nov. 26.
Arifeen David Gojali, a 21-year-old US citizen of Riverside and two other men were arrested in Chino by FBI agents just a few days before boarding a plane that...
The UC Board of Regents confirmed Jane Close Conoley, dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, as the acting chancellor of UC Riverside during a special meeting on Nov. 27.
Effective Dec. 31, her appointment was preceded by the approval of Nicolas B. Dirks, Columbia University’s executive vice president, as the new chancellor of UC Berkeley, who...
An empty plot of land behind Lot 30 has blossomed into the beginning of a community garden known as R’Garden, thanks to the efforts made by the UCR student organizations Sustainable UCR and Cultivate R’Space. Located near the corner of Canyon Crest Drive and Martin Luther King Boulevard, the grand opening of the R’Garden ceremoniously opened on Dec.1.
Campus and...
Issue 10 Correction: The Arab Spring is a national movement in the Middle East that began on December 18, 2010. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has resulted in five major wars and minor conflicts.
With red duct tape plastered to their mouths, roughly 50 students from the UCR Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization partook in a silent demonstration on Nov....
The University of California Health announced the beginning of a new partnership with Anthem Blue Cross on Nov. 13. This new partnership, called the California Health Alliance, will address the development of health care policies in the state of California. Other goals seek to improve access and affordability to health care for in-state residents.
UC Health is composed of the...
Using Candy to Teach Science
UCR chemist Kerry Hanson and a team of five graduate students visited Taft Elementary school in October, where students were taught the scientific method with a bag of assorted M&Ms.
In a class of third and fourth graders, Hanson and her team incorporated basic scientific research within a new teaching style. The UCR team used M&Ms...