This year, the Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) hired 12 new faculty members. The college now has 135 faculty members, however, they are seeking to hire six to eight more this year.
In an interview with The Highlander, Angela Meluski, the director of marketing and communications at BCOE stated that the demand for engineers in the workplace continues to increase...
As of Tuesday, Sept. 17, UCR’s current UCRWPA wireless network was replaced with a new UCR-SECURE wireless solution.
In an interview with The Highlander, Jacob Poore, the communications specialist at ITS, stated that the network was replaced as a part of ITS’ ongoing efforts to improve campus wireless infrastructure, security and access for students, faculty and staff. Poore stated that...
On Friday, Sept. 20, the department of Student Life and the Center for Social Innovation held the first of many informational meetings pertaining to the upcoming 2020 Census. It was open to all UCR students and organizations. The meeting highlighted how important filling out the census is in hard-to-count areas like Riverside, and how college students make up a...
On June 7, the ASUCR Judicial Council petitioner filed a case regarding the eligibility of the candidates of the special elections that took place on May 29, 2019. The Judicial Council initially found that the candidates elected for elections director and marketing and promotions director were ineligible because they did not have at least one year of experience. However,...
UCR has received a five year, $16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) which will initiate the Center for Health Disparities Research at UCR (HDR@UCR). The grant and new center are aimed to help focus on and help reduce health disparities in inland Southern California.
According to their website, the Center for Health Disparities Research’s focus is...
On Wednesday, Sept. 18, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced at the UC Board of Regents meeting that she will step down from her position in August 2020. Napolitano served as president for seven years and served as the first female president of the UC.
At the Board of Regents meeting, Napolitano stated, “My time at UC has been...
On July 15, Irma Henderson, the director of UCR’s Transportation Services, sent out a letter informing students that Transportation Services implemented an overall average permit rate increase of 4.50% for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. The rate increase officially went into effect on Sept. 1, 2019.
In the letter, Henderson noted that Transportation Services has been involved in several projects that...
Every year, the U.S. News and World Report publish college rankings in the United States. In the 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, UCR ranked No. 1 in the Top Performers on Social Mobility category.
The Social Mobility category is a new addition to the U.S. News and World Report rankings. The category, according to U.S. News,...
In a proof-of-concept trial, UCR professor of psychiatry and neuroscience and chair of the department at the UCR School of Medicine, Gerald A. Maguire, led a team that found that the medication ecopipam reduced the stuttering symptoms in adults from the start of therapy after eight weeks of dosing. The study was conducted in an open-label and uncontrolled clinical...
This article was contributed to by Jordan Hom.
When UC Riverside’s women’s basketball assistant coach Giuliana Mendiola was informed on Monday, July 22 that her contract would not be renewed for the 2019-2020 season, it sent shockwaves throughout the women’s basketball program and their alumni.
Although the official reason for why Mendiola will not be brought back remains unknown, former players...