A UCR Alumna is suing the Regents of the University of California for emotional distress and negligence, alleging that her former professor used her songs, stories and likeness for her own personal and capital gain.
In Spring 2013, 29-year-old Ashanti McMillon was enrolled in professor Setsu Shigetmatsu’s MCS 190 Special Studies course where she assisted in the development of the...
In March of last year and largely due to the hardships brought about by the global pandemic, the University of California (UC) announced that they were going to suspend the standardized testing component of the application process for every campus. They stipulated that the SAT and ACT could be submitted as part of an applicant’s profile if they so...
The official end of the 2020-2021 school year is drawing nearer, meaning a new cohort of graduates will soon be parting from UCR. Though this school year came with many new and unprecedented challenges and hardships, many soon-to-be graduates look upon their last handful of years at UCR with definite fondness.
The Highlander spoke to some graduating seniors about their...
The UC Office of the President has announced a second 2021 Nobel-Prize laureate from the UC system. David Card, a labor economist at UC Berkeley, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his studies that challenged the conventional ideas of low-wage jobs and how they relate to immigration, education and job availability. This follows another UC laureate...
The National Endowment of the Humanities announced that $24.7 million will be allocated in grants for 208 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants for four faculty members of the University of California, Riverside. These grants were awarded to support humanities initiatives at college campuses, innovative digital resources, research and infrastructure projects at cultural institutions. Liz Przybylski...
Early this month from April 2 to April 6, representatives from UCR’s Model United Nations club made their way to the big city to attend a conference hosted by the National Model United Nations. UCR MUN was one of several hundred organizations to attend, yet the club distinguished itself and UCR amongst the crowd by winning the top award...
Students and faculty alike identified the significance of proactive effort by our institutions in mitigating the consequences of pollution and enforcing transformative sustainability policies. Since as early as the 1960s, the academic community has made efforts to promote sustainability. Student-led organizations lobbied for green programs and policies throughout the UC system. Some early efforts included an organic farm created...
A video that went viral two weeks ago featuring a street vendor being kicked off of UC Riverside campus has led the campus community to rally in support of the woman affected. In the video, which was mainly reposted through TikTok and Instagram, UCR Vice Chancellor of Planning, Budget and Administration, Gerry Bomotti, is seen telling a woman fruit...
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 Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 11:00 a.m., Providing Opportunities, Dreams and Education in Riverside (PODER) dropped a banner in the Highlander Union Building (HUB) reading “4000+ UNDOCU Students Barred From EMPLOYMENT #O4ALL.” The banner drop, in addition to their protest, was a response to the Regent’s meeting on Jan. 25 where they suspended Regents Policy 4407: Policy on Equitable...