UCR students “die-in” memory of police brutality victims
Nearly 60 bodies laid strewn on the floor of the HUB Plaza as part of a “die-in” event, which commemorated the lives lost from police brutality throughout the nation. Organized by African Student Programs...
CALPIRG to push for open textbooks
Multiple Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG), including California’s CALPIRG, have published a report entitled the Billion Dollar Program, which displays the possibility for open textbooks to save $1.5 billion in textbook costs for students...
Gov. Newsom updates California budget, prioritizing public education
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant and unprecedented financial challenges across the nation. As a result, Gov. Gavin Newsom revised his January California budget proposal on Thursday, May 14, to aid in mitigating the...
“If they fought for us then, we should fight for them now”
Last Tuesday, April 24 was the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, where 1.5 million Christian Armenians were killed by the Young Turks in World War I. The Young Turks overthrew Turkey’s Sultan Abdul Hamid...
Women’s Resource Center hosts PERSIST political engagement conference
On Friday, Nov. 8, the Women's Resource Center (WRC) hosted the third annual PERSIST: Women’s Political Engagement Conference in the HUB 302 from 9:30 a.m. to 6:26 p.m.
The event featured a number of political...
Highlander Newsroom (5/31/2017)
Myles and Evan are joined in studio by fourth-year political science major Summer Shafer to discuss the potential implementation of a Gender Studies requirement at UC Riverside. The requirement is currently pending review by...
CHASS to sustain 11% budget cut that will result in less student support, less...
“What matters more is … making sure UCLA is funded at 11,500 bucks a year (per student), making sure that Berkeley has its funding untouched. Instead, we’re going to cut the most racially diverse...
Highlander Newsroom 11/27/13
Tune in as the Highlander senior staff discusses the UC-wide strikes by union AFSCME 3299, Thanksgiving and a celebrity-filled event at UCR.
ASUCR Senate Meeting 17
On April 3, in the 17th Associated Students of the University of California Riverside (ASUCR) Senate meeting of the year, the meeting was called to order at 7:01 p.m. All senators were present except...
New genetic research reveals consequences of pesticide use on mosquito evolution
Researchers from the UCR Department of Entomology have learned more about the genetic changes exacerbated by pesticidal chemicals used on mosquitoes.
According to the research paper, titled “Human Interventions: Driving Forces of Mosquito Evolution,”...