When she was a young teacher, Linda Navarrette, a researcher at UCR’s Graduate School of Education, made a trip to South Africa where she recognized the value of critical and creative thinking in primary education. As a bilingual school psychologist and school administrator, Navarrette noticed that local students of lower socioeconomic status and English learners were constantly being remediated...
Four UCR undergraduates have won prestigious research fellowships in the 2018 Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP), a branch of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Maryland. EXROP offers future STEM graduate students from groups underrepresented in the sciences an opportunity to get matched to a professor from another university and perform their own research project during the summer....
Sammie Ayoub, a third-year political science and international affairs major, was at the center of a highly contentious discussion at the ASUCR senate meeting last Wednesday evening, when two students used public forum to make the senate aware of Ayoub’s alleged sexual misconduct during his time at Riverside City College (RCC).
Ayoub, who enrolled in UC Riverside this winter 2018...
During an ASUCR meeting in May 2017, David Henry, executive director of Dining, Hospitality and Retail Services (Dining) announced a full renovation for The Barn restaurant.
The timeline of this project, which is being undertaken by Berkeley, California-based Fernau and Hartman Architects, calls for the closing of The Barn in June 2018 shortly after finals week, a soft opening...
The Highlander spoke with Assemblyman Jose Medina this week about a variety of issues pertaining to the Inland Empire and university students in California. Medina, a Democrat, represents the 61st district which covers parts of Riverside, including UCR, and is serving his third term in the California State Legislature, having been elected to this post for the first time...
Earlier this month, several UC Riverside students discovered that there were various social media accounts under the handle @NextGenCandids that were posting suggestive videos and photos of female students around campus without their consent. These accounts, which were on Twitter, Tumblr and iFunny, have been suspended from their respective social media platforms, and UCPD has begun a criminal investigation...
Published in the Molecular Autism journal on Jan. 30 by UC Riverside Assistant Professor of Special Education and assistant director to Support Education Advocacy Resources Community Hope (SEARCH) Family Autism Research Center Katherine Stavropoulos and UC San Diego Psychology Professor Leslie Carver, the research paper titled “Oscillatory rhythm of reward: anticipation and processing of rewards in children with and...
On Wednesday, Jan. 31, it was released that UCR bioengineering Professor Valentine Vullev received a grant from Fulbright, an American scholarship program, to conduct research on charge transfer at the Brazilian University of Sao Paulo for the 2018-19 academic year. Charge transfer refers to the movement of electric charge between molecules, such as when electrons move along a wire...
On Friday evening, Feb. 2, the exhibition, “Uncovering Ancient Mexico: The Mystery of Tlatilco,” opened at the Riverside Art Museum. The exhibition was curated by Catharina E. Santasillia, a UCR Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, in collaboration with the Riverside Metropolitan Museum.
The exhibition is filled with ceramic figurines and other artifacts from the ancient community of...
On Thursday, Feb. 1, UC employees and students assembled by the UCR Bell Tower to protest unfair working conditions in a demonstration organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299. The five-hour-long event was part of a UC-wide day of protest and attended by over 120 individuals, including members of UAW Local 2865...