Physical planning study sees room to grow
UCR held two planning workshops to seek the input of the campus community in determining the future of physical space on campus last Tuesday, Feb. 24. The first workshop, held in the HUB, was...
UCR researchers create method to produce biofuels more efficiently
UCR graduate researcher Cory Schwartz and professor of chemical and environmental engineering Ian Wheeldon have expanded the way yeast can be manipulated through the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats gene editing system (CRISPR-CAS9)....
Beyond R’Margins breaks the barrier of judgment
On April 30 in the HUB, over 200 UCR students attended the first Beyond R’Margins Conference, which consisted of keynote speakers, performances and workshops concerning the topic of diversity and social justice at UCR...
Hamas softens stance on Palestinian border with policy change
On Monday, May 1, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, released a document stating that the group is willing to accept a Palestinian state under the 1967 borders while, at the same time, refusing to...
UC medical workers threaten strike for employee pensions
After ten months of negotiations, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299—a union consisting of 13,000 Patient Care Technical Workers—will hold a vote to go on strike from April...
UC Riverside to offer more online courses in 2014
UC Riverside is offering four online courses, ranging from computer science to dance, through UC Online — a Web-based module that just unveiled 16 other online courses. Through cross-campus and simultaneous enrollment, UCR students...
Torn political posters puncture ASUCR senatorial debates
With nearly 50 senatorial candidates running in the upcoming elections, independents and a handful of members from each political party — SIDE, ABC: A Better Choice and Vox Populi — spoke during last Monday’s...
Middle Class Scholarship supports CSU, UC students
Last year, the California legislature approved the Middle Class Scholarship (MCS) program, which provides stipends to undergraduates in UCs and CSUs with family incomes that are less than $150,000. Now in its first year...
Stress coping mechanisms may be ineffective
On October 12, the psychology journal, “Emotion” published associate psychology professor Kate Sweeny’s newest research on stress. Sweeny and her research team have been devoted to studying stress and the effectiveness of certain coping...
UC system to ban smoking on all campuses
The University of California has decided to ban all forms of smoking and tobacco products throughout its campuses. The policy was recently announced earlier this month and will gradually take effect over the next...