R’Bus, an initiative started with College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) Senator Vinisha Lalli and former Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) Senators Anjana Narasimhan and Amariah Peedikayil, aims to provide students with safe late-night transportation back to their residences. It has now evolved into plans for a full-time internal transportation system that potentially could act as a bus...
On Dec. 31, 2025, the Trump administration announced a $10 billion freeze on child care subsidies for five Democratic states until they provide additional verification and administrative documentation. New York Senator Gillibrand responded to the administration's action, stating, "Trump must unfreeze our child care funding and stop attacking New York children." California Governor Gavin Newsom responded to the fraud...
UCR’s new Multidisciplinary Research Building (MRB), just north of the existing Materials Science and Engineering Building (MSE), will finish construction at the end of this year. The building will accommodate 179,000 square feet of collaborative lab, wet lab and computation research space.
The purpose intended for the MRB, according to Jacqueline Norman, a campus architect involved in the building’s design,...
November 10, 2018. A date that will forever be etched into the minds of the UC Riverside players who rewrote history with a 4-2 victory over UC Davis in penalty kicks.
The stakes for this game seemed to raise higher and higher by the minute, with UCR making its first appearance in the championship round. The team played in front...
On Wednesday, Jan. 9, State Senator for the 31st District Richard Roth announced Senate Bill 56, which requests $80 million for “the construction of a new University of California, Riverside School of Medicine facility” and $25 million for “ongoing operational support for the expansion of the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.” This additional funding is aimed at...
On Thursday, Feb. 20, UCR’s Free Speech Working Group, an organization on campus consisting of students, faculty and staff which promotes transparency in the enforcement of campus policy, held an open panel to explain its constituent members’ roles on campus as well as address student concerns regarding issues of free speech and how they are attempting to maintain “an...
The second ASUCR meeting of the quarter took place on Wednesday, April 10 and began at 6:36 p.m.
During the approval of the agenda, CHASS Senator Julian Gonzalez voted to add a judicial council amendment discussion to the agenda. The amendment which was discussed at last week’s ASUCR meeting would allow the senate to, with a two-thirds majority vote,...
Emerbee’s, a new dining facility, is set to open on campus tentatively the week of June 3, however, the opening date is not yet confirmed.
In an interview with the Highlander, Benjamin Eisenstein, the marketing and strategic communications manager for UCR Housing, Dining & Hospitality Services, stated that due to the rapid growth of UCR’s campus, new dining facilities are...