In a report by the Washington Post, UC Riverside was listed as having a 40 percent Hispanic student population by fall of 2016. It is classified as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) where at least 25 percent of the students enrolled are Hispanic, according to the the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
UCR is one of only four HSIs...
According to the California Association of Realtors (CAR) forecast, a “combination of high home prices and eroding affordability is expected to cut into housing demand and contribute to a weaker housing market in 2019.” With rising prices in big cities such as San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles and Sacramento, buyers continue to look towards the Inland Empire in...
On Friday, Nov. 30, the first annual Computational Neuroimaging and Neuroengineering Symposium (CNNS) was hosted at the UCR Alumni and Visitors Center by Megan Peters, assistant professor of bioengineering. The event aimed to bring together computational neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, bioengineers, electrical engineers and computer scientists to share their research and findings.
Peters stated, “The discovery of how our brains...
On Nov. 29, the UCR School of Public Policy (SPP) held a seminar titled “2018 Midterms: What Did Science Win and Lose at the Ballot Box.” The seminar was hosted by Susan Hackwood, director of the Science to Policy (S2P) program, a new program with the intention to get more STEM students involved with government affairs The seminar was...
This October, UCR computer science researchers successfully accomplished side channel GPU attacks using direct and cross computational stacks, or in layman’s terms, indirectly used computer graphics systems to attack multiple programs at once. Three experimental attacks demonstrated that computer graphics cards could be manipulated to steal victim information such as passwords, web history and even corporate cloud neural network...
On Thursday, Nov. 29, The California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) at UCR launched their Affordable Textbooks Campaign. The campaign calls for increased affordability and accessibility of course materials.
According to Noe Torres, campaign coordinator for affordable textbooks, “the price of textbooks is increasing at three times the rate of inflation. On average, students spend $1200 a year and about...
The second to last ASUCR meeting of the quarter was held Wednesday, Nov. 28 in HUB 221 at 6:30 p.m. and focused on plans for next quarter including the election coming up which will be digital.
The Senate discussed moving from paper voting to digital voting. Digital voting is being offered as an incentive for students to go out and...
On November 12, 2018 UCR Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) began the sale of commuter parking permits, and after just a few days the most popular permits such as Gold+13 and Gold+21 already sold out. In a Highlander interview via email with Assistant Vice Chancellor of Auxiliary Affairs and TAPS’ committee chair Andy Plumley, it was revealed that new...
Starting in mid-October, fliers around UCR’s campus were put up by Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGA), asking students to scan a QR code that prompts them to take a survey. The survey asks students for their thoughts on PPGA’s current campaign to make a safe sex vending machine available on campus which would provide several safe sex items: plan...
As of Oct. 31, ASUCR has been working on a project in tandem with UCR’s Green Campus Action Plan (GCAP) and UC Merced’s dining services to install plastic container vending machines at UCR dining commons for all students to have access to reusable food containers. Known as “OZZI” machines, these stations will be installed by ASUCR in dining commons...