UC President Mark Yudof has selected Jane Close Conoley, dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, as the interim chancellor of UC Riverside on Tuesday, Nov. 20. Pending her approval by UC Board of Regents, Conoley will succeed Chancellor Timothy P. White on Dec. 31, who will go on to head the California State University system...
A team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside and Stanford University uncovered how different sensory neurons function in the olfactory system through Drosophila, a genus of small flies.
“One of the biggest mysteries is how the brain works. Almost every neuron in the brain is unique in the way it connects to others and responds to signals,” stated...
As a part of the Food Recovery Challenge, a program initiated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce as much food waste as possible, the University of California, Riverside has pledged to reduce its own food waste by five percent over the course of a year.
“The Challenge is part of the EPA’s Sustainable Materials Management Program,...
It has been six years since the Nintendo Wii was released to the public. Since the debut of what was arguably Nintendo’s most ambitious video game system yet, the game industry has changed in some pretty significant ways. Mobile phones and tablets have proven themselves to be capable gaming platforms with both large and small gaming studios enthusiastically supporting...
The Inland Empire was painted a Democratic blue this past election, a region that in the past has been known to vote Republican red. Districts in the Inland Empire shuttled California Democrats such as Mark Takano and Dr. Raul Ruiz to the state assembly and Gloria Negrete McLeod to the state senate. By hitting the two-thirds threshold, Democrats have...
The University of California, along with many other universities across the nation, has decided to extend its application deadline from Nov. 30 to Dec. 15, in an effort to accommodate students caught in the aftermath of “Superstorm Sandy.”
Hurricane Sandy, a disastrous category four hurricane turned “superstorm,” ravaged the East Coast in late October. According to LiveScience, the hurricane has...
Several Spanish-speaking Riverside residents have reported that a mysterious caller, claiming to be affiliated with UCR, is promoting costly language classes and then failing to deliver. Local community members are told that they simply have to pay a fee of $150 to enroll. If the offer is refused, the resident is then threatened with deportation by the caller, unless...
From Nov. 9-11, UCR hosted the 24th Annual Students of Color Conference (SOCC), a three-day systemwide event that addressed the structural and social issues of racial, ethnic and gender inequalities.
SOCC is one of the oldest conferences held by the UC Student Association (UCSA) and it takes place at a different UC campus every year. The initial planning stages date...
Heeding pleas from Governor Jerry Brown and students across the state, California State University (CSU) trustees decided to delay their votes on proposed tuition hikes that would affect the system’s so-called “super seniors” or undergraduates who are beyond their fourth-year of study.
The proposed fees would affect students who have accumulated over 150 semester units. The plan was to give...
Fed up with the current choices of food on campus, several UCR students could only think of one solution: food trucks. Hence, a proposal for the idea was presented to representatives from the office of Housing Services and Student Affairs on Nov.13. ASUCR senators Brian Leung and Chris Salvador, along with Ambassador of Student United Way (SUW) Elliot Thompson...