USC professor and counter-terrorism expert speaks about domestic terror
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On Wednesday, May 11, UCR’s School of Public Policy (SPP) hosted a lecture given by Erroll Southers, adjunct professor of homeland security and public policy at the University of Southern California (USC), in...
Libertarian commentator Julie Borowski offers an “alternative viewpoint” at UCR
At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7 in HUB 355, the UCR chapter of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) hosted Libertarian commentator and YouTube star Julie Borowski to discuss political correctness, campus free speech...
Highlander Newsroom (11/18/15)
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about the terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris, social media activism and the million student march.
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UC Health contributed $3.3 billion in services for 2011
University of California Health has estimated that the monetary value of all of its services in 2011 amounts to nearly $3.3 billion. Through its numerous medical centers across California, UC Health provides vital services...
Senators pursue trolley and campus storage project
Rounding off the third week of winter quarter, ASUCR senators reported the progress of various projects such as the reinstatement of the trolley system, which has been out of commission since 2011. Aiming to...
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...
Napolitano meets UCR: Students voice support, protest
UC President Janet Napolitano continued her month-long tour of each of the 10 UC campuses this past Monday, Nov. 4 with a trip to UC Riverside. It proved to be an eventful visit full...
Child Development Center mold forces families to evacuate
Fourteen families will be forced to find alternative child care after a mold infestation was discovered in the baseboards of the UCR Child Development Center (CDC) Building A. The building’s closure has also displaced...
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...