One of the teams within UC Riverside’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a chapter under the Inland Empire professional chapter, took home first prize for the team category at the 11th annual Metropolitan Spring Green Expo on Thursday, April 19. The competition was held in downtown Los Angeles where the UCR team competed with teams from other universities, including Loma...
The blending of the Spanish language and American culture has led to the creation of unique dialects and increased bilingualism. The impact and perceptions of these changes were the focus of a guest lecture given by Dr. John M. Lipski, an Edwin Erle Sparks professor of Spanish and linguistics at Pennsylvania State University last Monday.
With research centered between...
The UC’s largest employee union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees or AFSCME, is holding a system-wide strike starting Monday, May 7 to Wednesday, May 9. The strike is a response to stalled contract negotiations and both racial and gender disparities in pay for service workers such as groundskeepers, security guards and food-service workers. Interior cleaning...
Summer school at a UC could soon be easier to afford. That is at least the hope with the latest resolution to pass through the ASUCR senate, SR-S18-005 (official title: “Resolution in Support of the Campaign to Extend Cal Grant to Summer Session from the Coalition for A Better UC”). Introduced by Vice President of Internal Affairs Semi Cole...
Last Tuesday, April 24 was the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, where 1.5 million Christian Armenians were killed by the Young Turks in World War I. The Young Turks overthrew Turkey’s Sultan Abdul Hamid in 1908 and took power soon after. As nationalists, they aimed to “Turkify” the then-Ottoman Empire, ostracizing Armenians in the process. Turkey claims the killings...
UCR’s Center for Social Innovation is exploring the nearly one million immigrants living in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Published April 18, a report titled “State of Immigrants in the Inland Empire” aims to offer an extensive view of the Inland Empire’s immigrant population and policy issues that have impacted the population.
The report provides a historical view of...
Brittany Morey, a UC chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the School of Public Policy at UCR, published an article in the journal Social Science and Medicine, that links populations with anti-immigrant sentiment to the mortality rate of immigrants residing in these populations. Working with Columbia professors Peter Muennig (health policy and management) and Mark Hatzenbuehler (sociomedical sciences) and UCLA Professor...
Written by Myles Andrews-Duve and Andreas Rauch
Semi Cole was elected president of the ASUCR for the 2018-19 academic year on Monday in a culmination of a campaign that focused on student engagement, community outreach and improving UCR’s mental health services.
The outcome was a landslide victory, with Cole earning 1,493 votes to runner-up Diana Jekki’s 967. Protest candidate Furry Boi,...
When endorsing himself as a candidate for UC Riverside’s chancellor vacancy in 2012, Kim Wilcox highly touted his experience overseeing the medical school at Michigan State University (MSU), where he served as provost from August 2005 to July 2013. A report from the Detroit News published earlier this month, however, suggests Wilcox failed to act on numerous complaints of...
“The residue of many bullets lives within me.” These were the words of Katherine Maldonado, a sociology graduate student speaking at the National School Walkout event, a protest against gun violence that occurred by the UCR bell tower Friday, April 20.
On the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School mass shooting, which claimed the lives of 15 and...