November 10, 2018. A date that will forever be etched into the minds of the UC Riverside players who rewrote history with a 4-2 victory over UC Davis in penalty kicks.
The stakes for this game seemed to raise higher and higher by the minute, with UCR making its first appearance in the championship round. The team played in front...
The sixth ASUCR meeting of the Fall quarter occurred Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 6:36 p.m. to discuss current efforts made by student organizations to increase student voter turnout, approve bylaw resolutions drafted to improve food security for students and address the funds allocated to aid student organizations in the recent Oct. 24 and Oct. 29 budget hearings. Fourteen of...
On Saturday, Oct. 27, UC Police Department (UCPD) arrested two vagrants stealing from the UCR Child Development Center on Watkins Drive. A security alarm tripped at 1:08 p.m. alerted the officers, who arrived on the scene to find the suspects putting stolen office supplies into their backpacks. A third female suspect was arrested outside the center but was released...
Psychologists at UC Riverside and UC Irvine have developed the University of California Matrix Reasoning Task (UCMRT), which is being touted as an efficient alternative to the Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM), both of which measure fluid intelligence.
The UCMRT is a free test accessible on mobile devices that is highly comparable to APM. Developed by John C. Raven in 1936,...
The University Laboratory Building has officially been renamed the Rochelle and Allison Campbell Hall in honor of the Campbell family. The Campbell family consists of Neil Campbell, Rochelle Campbell and Allison Campbell. A ceremony was held on Oct. 19 to celebrate the building’s renaming.
Throughout the years, the Campbell family has made many contributions to UCR. Rochelle Campbell is the...
A 298-page investigative report released by the UC Office of the President details a pattern of inappropriate behavior in direct violation of the UC’s Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment (SVSH) policy on the part of James Sandoval, former vice chancellor of student affairs.
Sandoval, who was accused of sexual harassment in August 2017 by an anonymous source who worked...
Governor Race
John Cox is the Republican candidate for governor of California. He is running in the general election on Nov. 6 after advancing from the primaries on June 5, 2018. Cox supports Proposition 6 which will repeal fuel tax increases and vehicle fees that were enacted in 2017 which would reduce funding for highway and road maintenance...
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 Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) at UCR recently received a $750,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to increase the number of STEM students who transfer from a community college into the engineering program at UCR.
A new project, Training Undergraduates through Navy Engagement (TUNE), will expand UCR’s efforts to allow students to transfer...
On Oct. 1, 2018, Distinguished Professor of Entomology Alexander Raikhel and Lin Ling, a postdoctoral scholar at UCR, published their research on the genetic foundation for chemical receptors responsible for the growth, metabolism and reproduction of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Using advanced CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing, they successfully created mosquitoes that are smaller, have a shorter lifespan and are less likely to...