Electric scooters placed throughout UCR and the city have spurred the university to revise current policies on motorized vehicles on campus. According to Assistant Chief of Police John Freese, this is mainly due to “the new scooter issues related to “Bird” (the company that has currently released the scooters on campus) and similar companies.” The revisions are currently being...
On Monday, Sept. 24, UC Riverside held its New Student Convocation for incoming first-year and transfer students at UCR. The event was organized by the Office of Event Management and Protocol, which reports that there are 4,630 enrolled freshmen and 1,600 enrolled transfers this year. According to an email from Amy Kim, the office’s public events manager, around 3,500...
UCR’s new Multidisciplinary Research Building (MRB), just north of the existing Materials Science and Engineering Building (MSE), will finish construction at the end of this year. The building will accommodate 179,000 square feet of collaborative lab, wet lab and computation research space.
The purpose intended for the MRB, according to Jacqueline Norman, a campus architect involved in the building’s design,...
(Update 10/10/18: Richard Rycraw, UC Riverside's Liability Program Manager, contacted the Highlander with additional information on the campus's scooter policies, as well as other scooter safety concerns. His additions have been added throughout the article.)
Bird, an electric scooter company based in Santa Monica, has triggered controversy by dumping scooters throughout the city of Riverside. Through its app, Bird allows...
The production of fuel, detergents and pharmaceutical medications all owe their environmentally friendly production processes to the work of UCR incoming Professor of Chemistry and Nobel prize-winner Richard Schrock. A UCR alumnus himself, Shrock helped pioneer methods of olefin metathesis which allows for a cleaner, more efficient production of a multitude of chemical products.
Returning to his alma mater,...
Last May, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3622, the union which represents the service sector employees across all UC campuses, carried out a three-day strike to protest the UC and what certain research showed was growing wage inequality for women and minority workers. The inequality is largely blamed on the outsourcing of jobs...
Dr. Sterling Stuckey, historian, professor emeritus in the Department of History and author of numerous African American historical research articles, passed away on Aug. 15. As a notable academic, Stuckey held the position of UC Presidential Chair in 1989 where he was selected to endow scholarly research and support campus activities at UC Riverside. After his retirement in 2004,...
UC Riverside Undergraduate Admissions carried out numerous action plans in an effort to raise UCR’s transfer student population this year. This is in response to last year’s student ratio of about three incoming freshmen to one new transfer at UCR.
If the excessive ratio was left unaddressed, the campus would have faced budget cuts threatened by state legislators and...
UC Riverside has signalled its ambition in expanding its award-winning faculty by hiring the 2017 Physics Nobel Prize winner, Barry C. Barish. On Sept. 1, Barish joined the UCR College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) faculty for the 2018 fall quarter. Barish earned the Prize alongside Rainer Weiss, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and...
In an “America’s Best Colleges Report” by the U.S. News and World Report (USNWR), UC Riverside made larger gains than any other university in the United States. According to the 2019 rankings, UCR jumped 39 positions from No. 124 in 2018 to No. 85 in 2019. It is also ranked the No. 35 public university in the nation for...