UC Regents expresses concern over system borrowing
On Wednesday, Sept. 14, at the UC Board of Regents meeting, a debt policy proposal was made in response to the university system’s growing loan debt. Since the end of 2008, the UC system’s...
UCR teams with Johns Hopkins to host STEM workshop
The University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) recently collaborated to host a STEM workshop for more than 60 middle school and...
Researchers from UC San Diego, UC Riverside and Mexico collaborate on skull implant
A team comprised of researchers from UC San Diego, UC Riverside and three research institutions from Puebla, Mexico gathered at UC Riverside for a two-day symposium to discuss their biomedical project titled, “Window to...
News-in-brief
UCR ranked highly among the most environmentally friendly campuses
Sierra Club’s Cool School Rankings, in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, recently placed UC Riverside at 27th out...
UCR professor discovers bacterial connection between wild bees and flowers
Quinn McFrederick, assistant professor of entomology at UCR, recently uncovered a close relationship between wild bee and flower microbiomes, as well as the importance of microbiomes in overall bee fitness, or the ability to...
UCR Extension Center expands to India
On Thursday, Sept. 1, UC Riverside announced that the UCR Professional Studies office has opened in Chandigarh, India and is currently recruiting students for winter quarter 2017. This office is an extension of the...
UCR leads in City Year applicants and hires
A total of 124 recent graduates from the University of California, Riverside have applied to the nationwide City Year program this year, making it the college with the most applicants across the nation for...
UCR professor leads team in creating model explaining universe transparency
Assistant professor in UCR’s department of physics and astronomy, Naveen Reddy, has recently published two papers discussing his research explaining why the universe has the ability to become transparent.
Reddy’s research was performed using a...
Gov. Brown signs controversial climate change bill
On Thursday, Sept. 8, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation SB 32 into law as an effort to reduce California’s carbon footprint. With the goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990...
News year-in-review
The 2015-2016 school year has been long, eventful and packed with stories that the news team has attempted to duly cover. Below are some of the biggest events that happened this year.
UCR’s triumphs...