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Award-winning journalist to lecture on Jan. 21

Award-winning freelance journalist and former investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld will discuss his book “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to...

ASUCR discusses textbook sales, bylaw changes

At their first meeting of the winter quarter, ASUCR discussed topics such as professors assigning their own books to their classes, as well as...

Regents to discuss mental health, sexual assault at meeting

The UC Board of Regents and their committees are scheduled to meet this Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 21-22, at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference...

Spider experts say that bites do not cause bacterial infection

A study led by a former UCR entomologist suggests that, contrary to popular belief, spider bites do not lead to bacterial infections in humans....

Gov. Jerry Brown taps legislative affairs secretary as final UC regent

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed legislative affairs secretary Gareth Elliott to the UC Board of Regents on Jan. 2. The Democrat and West Sacramento resident...

UC receives $1.9M in funding for climate change research

The University of California has received $1.9 million in funding to establish the Institute for the Study of Ecological and Evolutionary Climate Impacts (ISEECI),...

Senators have “no confidence” in UC regents, Napolitano

Members of ASUCR unanimously passed a resolution last week expressing “no confidence” in the UC Board of Regents and UC President Janet Napolitano in...

UCR “call-in” event receives low participation

On Nov. 24, members of the ASUCR Office of External Affairs organized a “call-in,” an event that encouraged UCR students to call the offices...

UCR researchers make breakthrough in yellow fever

A research team led by UCR Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences Dr. Ilhem Messaoudi recently made a breakthrough in the management and detection of...

Massive Highlander protest prompted by UC tuition plan

Nearly 150 to 250 UCR students turned out for a protest on Nov. 18 as part of a systemwide “Day of Action” in response...