On April 16, 2024, California Gov. Gavin Newsom hosted Norwegian Minister of Trade Jan Christian Vestre in signing a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance climate collaboration between the two governments. The MoU comes as California seeks to boost cooperation between like-minded partners in the international arena to stay on track with its 2022 commitment to achieve net-zero...
I am Ethan Daniels (he/him), and my email is [email protected]. I am a student at UC Riverside studying economics and have been working closely with Hillel at UCR since the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel. Hillel International is an organization that offers opportunities to both Jewish and non-Jewish students to explore Jewish history and identity.
My generation must come to...
“Welcome to a new year and a new era in the history of the University of California at Riverside.”
These were the words that began the first broadcast ever transmitted by KUCR, UCR’s very own radio station. The year was 1966.
In the nearly 50 years KUCR has been on the air, it has had a storied history. Its broadcasts provide...
University officials recently announced their intentions to build an 8,000-seat arena where Bannockburn Village currently resides. The purpose of the C-Center, as officials are tentatively calling the arena, would be to serve as a venue for large university events like concerts, athletic competitions and commencements. Student response to the proposal has been largely mixed, due in part to fears...
The University of California system is home to some of the most well-renowned universities in the world. The consistency of these rankings and the system’s incredible faculties and programs mean that students from all over the globe clamor to get their place in the universities. However, this does not blend well with the ongoing student housing crisis that all...
Last month, big oil, mining and gas, hiding behind The United States Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and the Independent Petroleum Association of America, filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), demanding the right to bribe foreign countries and return to the days, 35 years ago, when more than 400 United States corporations bribed...
Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox announced on Thursday, Sept. 19, that he plans to retire in the summer of 2025 after leading the University of California, Riverside (UCR) for 12 years — the second-longest serving chancellor in the university’s history.
In a message to the campus community, Chancellor Wilcox said that he will “miss the daily interactions on campus” but believes...
Following final arguments this month, the Supreme Court is expected to release its decision regarding the constitutionality of Arizona’s immigration law; the ruling will come in late June, at the height of the presidential campaign. Under Arizona’s immigration law, law enforcement personnel, when detaining individuals for reasons other than immigration status, must check residency status if they have “reasonable...
Riverside has removed the cameras at many of the red lights around the city. These cameras had been running for seven years when the city council voted to turn them off after the 2013 election; they were actually deactivated in September. These cameras were installed to help catch people running red lights, as well as to help prevent crashes...