VCSA announces continuation of HEAT Music Festival
ASUCR’s fourth senate meeting of the year saw the passage of two resolutions and the announcement that HEAT Music Festival will be continued in the winter quarter 2017.
During ex-officio reports, ASUCR President Shafi Karim...
“Our kind of power!”: UCR union members protest unfair working conditions
On Thursday, Feb. 1, UC employees and students assembled by the UCR Bell Tower to protest unfair working conditions in a demonstration organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)...
UC launches presidential fellowship program
On Feb. 18, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced the creation of the Presidential Public Service Fellowship program with the intent to spark UC undergraduate interest in pursuing public service careers. This program...
GCAP hands out free tote bags in celebration of Prop 67
On Monday, Jan. 9 and Wednesday, Jan. 11, members of the Green Campus Action Plan (GCAP) committee handed out free tote bags to students at the campus bookstore. The program was initiated by ASUCR...
Student regents make recruiting visit to campus
Recruiting prospective candidates for the 2013 -2014 student regent position, the current UC student regents visited UCR as part of a systemwide tour on Jan. 25. Audience members were informed about the role of...
Swipes for the Homeless launched at UCR
A program dedicated to relieving hunger for the homeless delivered approximately 4,322 pounds of food, equivalent to the weight of an average mid-size car, last Thursday to Feeding America, a network of food banks...
Highlander Special Report: Trump’s election triggers unrest in Riverside community
Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election Tuesday evening (Nov. 8) triggered immediate responses from within both the UC Riverside and local Riverside community. Students and community leaders began mobilizing just hours after and...
UCR researchers help discover new exoplanet
On Nov. 15, researchers at Australia's University of Southern Queensland and UC Riverside published their finding of a newly discovered exoplanet. Funded by NASA, UCR, University of Southern Queensland and grants given by the...
NextGen Candids account posted “sexually suggestive” photos of UCR students
On Friday, Jan. 26, several students alerted the UCR community about social media accounts posting sexually suggestive photographs and videos of female students from UCR taken without their knowledge.
The accounts, all titled NextGen...
UC benefits from green technology
The University of California continues to make great strides in cutting back resource consumption and reducing energy usage. According to the 2011 UC Annual Report on Sustainable Practices discussed at the Jan. 18 Board...