According to a recent UCR study, our partners and spouses could be the key to having a more positive outlook on a situation.
The study, “Interpersonal positive reframing in the daily lives of couples coping with breast cancer,” was authored by UCR Assistant Professor of Psychology Megan Robbins, psychology graduate student Robert C. Wright, Thomas Jefferson University graduate student...
District 31 State Senator Richard Roth recently introduced Senate Bill 461 which would expand the current Cal Grant program to encompass two additional summer terms of up to nine units of course credits. The bill has been immediately endorsed and championed by the Coalition for a Better UC (CBUC), a student-led activist organization that focuses on tackling socioeconomic issues...
Published on Feb. 26, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, recent research finds evidence indicating that the first organism motility, or an organism with the ability to move, can be traced back 2.1 billion years ago.
Conducted by Andrey Bekker, associate professor in Department of Earth Sciences, Timothy Lyons, distinguished professor...
Recent ASUCR senate resolutions, UCR student studies and proposed referendums have called attention to the prevalence of food insecurity at UCR. In 2015, the Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI), a UC research group which studies public health, conducted a review which affirmed that 62.5 percent of UCR students are food-insecure, with recent survey results still yielding data suggesting that rate...
ASUCR met last Wednesday, Feb. 20 to discuss upcoming projects, revise certain bylaws and review standard procedure. Here are some highlights from the meeting:
During committee reports an opening day event for solar umbrellas outside the career center was discussed.
The legislative review committee was able to pass Senate Bill 005 which amends Chapter 29 of the bylaws, the...
The Office of Sustainability in collaboration with ASUCR and UCR’s Facilities Services recently ordered BigBelly waste bins to place in multiple locations on UCR’s campus, including the Bell Tower and various university parking lots.
The Office of Sustainability first attempted to bring BigBelly waste bins onto UCR’s campus a few years ago before it was disbanded. In an interview with...
On Thursday, Feb. 20, UCR’s Free Speech Working Group, an organization on campus consisting of students, faculty and staff which promotes transparency in the enforcement of campus policy, held an open panel to explain its constituent members’ roles on campus as well as address student concerns regarding issues of free speech and how they are attempting to maintain “an...
A research team assembled by UCR Associate Professor of Physics, Nathaniel Gabor, made a discovery after successfully creating the first “electron liquid” at room temperature. According to the ScienceDaily article “Physicists create exotic electron liquid,” the discovery allows scientists to pursue new opportunities developing technologies as diverse as cancer detection, outer space communication and weapons defense due to the...
In a collaboration between UCR and the California School for the Deaf, Riverside (CSDR), a workshop known as “The Vibrating Universe: Astronomy for the Deaf” was created, led by UCR astronomers Gillian Wilson, Mario De Leo-Winkler and CSDR teachers Wendy Green, Lisa Chute, Elizabeth Henderson and Tammy Mitchell. The UCR astronomers have worked with CSDR representatives before to ensure...
The findings of a UCR research study were published last Jan. 31, which discovered that colleges and hospitals will raise and drop housing price at an above average rate.
The study was led by Vagelis Hristidis, professor of computer science and engineering at UCR. According to the publication, colleges and hospitals can be considered “opportunity hubs” that attract job seekers...