UCR campus elections are approaching in the spring quarter, and one of the referenda up for election this spring will be the Highlander Empowerment Student Services Referendum (HESSR). This referendum was initially passed in 2015 when it provided $2 of student fees to the various ethnic and gender student programs in Costo Hall.
Costo Hall houses programs like the...
A UCR postdoctoral fellow in entomology, Colince Kamdem, has discovered a weakness in the genes that give mosquitos their uncanny ability to adapt to the insecticides humans use to ward them off.
Mosquitos, according to Kamdem, are highly polymorphic. Polymorphism is the presence of natural variation in a population and is driven by changes occurring in DNA sequences. “A...
UCR Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor for Geophysics Gareth Funning and a team of researchers have discovered how thrust faults can enable earthquake ruptures to jump further than distances determined in previous findings.
Funning has been collaborating with Ed Nissen of the Colorado School of Mines, John Elliott and Barry Parsons of the University of Oxford, Alastair Sloan of the...
The UCR Chapter of the Global Medical Brigades and the Lestonnac Free Clinic organization opened a free medical clinic in San Bernardino on Saturday, Nov.7. The clinic is located at 401 E. 21st St., across the street from the St. Bernardine medical center. The clinic will be open from 9 a.m to 1 p.m. on the first Saturday of...
Finally. As a replacement for what used to be El Sol, the HUB's newest restaurant, Habanero’s, opened this week. The recent unveiling of the counter, which was masked mysteriously by a black tarp before its opening day, attracted curious new customers and eager students. By noon on Monday, the line wrapped around itself three times, almost creating a block...
At 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, Service workers from all 10 UC campuses joined Patient Care Technical workers in striking for safe staffing, wage increases, benefit protections, job security, racial equality and the end of discrimination in the workplace, after UC ostensibly opted for a contract with healthcare premium increases, flattened wages, a forced 401(k) plan and continued...
The ASUCR meeting on Wednesday, May 27 centered on discussion and debate over SB-S20-007 Amendments to Chapter 10, 8, 2 and 4 of the ASUCR Bylaws and SB-S20-011 The R’Gear Initiative. SB-S20-007 requested to increase the ASUCR Executive Vice President’s (EVP) yearly stipend from $7,425 to $9,900. SB-S20-011 would ensure an allocation of $40,000 to the R’Gear initiative, a...
Following two weeks of online voting that ended Friday Feb. 17, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi has endured a faculty-initiated vote of no confidence. The vote was prompted by the controversial pepper-spray incident at UC Davis where police, at Chancellor Katehi’s order, had confronted protesters.The victory was won by a landslide; 69 percent, or 697 of the 1,009...
On Sunday, Oct. 16, UCR Vice Provost of International Affairs Kelechi Kalu, led a five-person team to Taiwan on a six-day trip to build better ties with Taiwanese universities. The invitation came from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education and will be one of the first of UC Riverside’s trips abroad.
The team met with officials from ministries of science...
Last week, many multicolored shirts adorned the west sidewalk near the UCR Bell Tower to raise awareness of sexual and domestic violence. Hosted by the UC Riverside Women’s Resource Center and the Sexual Assault and Violence (S.A.V.E.) Peer Group, the campus’ annual rendition of a national event known as “The Clothesline Project” was held from Oct.12-14.
The Clothesline Project is...