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...
The ASUCR Student Voice Committee has just released their survey results for the COVID-19/Return to Campus Survey. Surveyors asked numerous questions to students pertaining to the return to campus back in fall 2021.
Most of the answers to the survey swing favorably toward fully returning to on-campus instruction. When asked questions about mental health, GPA and job prospects, many students...
UC remote learning extensions have raised many concerns, primarily those of students that are navigating an uncertain and precarious winter quarter. Students not only face financial vulnerabilities, but their proximity to COVID-19, due to inadequate COVID regulations, places them at risk.
UCR, UC Los Angeles and UC Irvine announced they will be extending remote learning by three more weeks amid...
The omicron variant is rapidly closing in on students as many are swarming to get tested at UCR’s two available testing sites: the Bear Cave at Pentland Hills and Curative at lot 26. The website for Curative has been reportedly down, only getting back to students 48 hours later. This has caused an overaccumulation of students at the Bear...
The tenth Associated Students of UCR meeting took place Wednesday, Jan. 12 remotely due to classes being held online the first month of the quarter. All senators were present, excluding CNASS senator Catelin La and CHASS senator Blanca Estela Alba.
Motions to approve the current meeting’s agenda were called for by Executive Vice President Mufida Assaf with the addition of...
On Jan. 4, 2022, Giulia Palermo, assistant professor of UCR Bioengineering, earned a $650,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to research the state-of-art gene editing technology. She expressed gratitude for the award on twitter, exclaiming, “Honored to receive the #NSFCAREER award! This will give us the opportunity to pursue exciting research and high-level education to mentor students, including minorities...
Effective Jan. 2, 2022, UCR Housing, Dining and Hospitality Services have announced that the restaurant, Savor, has been moved from the Glen Mor Market to Lothian’s Dining Hall for the winter quarter. This change comes in order to accomodate the winter season, and the cold weather that comes with it, by allowing Lothian residents to dine indoors.
However, UCR Dining...
On Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022 the Associated Students of UCR called to order their ninth meeting remotely as a result of the rising COVID-19 cases. All senators were present, excluding CNASS Senator Catelin La and CHASS Senators Angelina Chavez, Christian Martinez and Hoang Vu.
Motions to approve the current meeting’s agenda were called for by Executive Vice President Mufida Assaf...
Classes for the upcoming winter quarter will now be conducted remotely for the first two weeks of the quarter as announced recently by the University of California. UC Riverside is just one of seven UC campuses on the quarter system which will see a delay in returning to campus due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of...
Following a rally that took place in October and an intent to strike, as of Dec. 9, 2021, the Student Researchers United-United Auto Workers union is now being formally recognized by the University of California. The UAW union, created on May 24, 2021, supports 17,000 graduate student researchers and student teachers across the UC system. The SRs and teaching...