R’Gear launches into second year
Beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, hundreds of UCR freshmen formed a line that originated from the Student Recreation Center (SRC) Arena and extended out to the intersection of W. Linden Street and...
Highlander Newsroom (1/13/16)
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about allegations brought against Bill Cosby, the death of David Bowie, UC private prison divestment and the occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon by a...
UC joins the Breakthrough Energy Coalition
On Nov. 29, 2015, the University of California announced its intention to join the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a group of investors led by Bill Gates, committed to investing in technological research and development aimed...
News in Brief
Phone apps can compromise security
According to a study by former UCR computer science Ph.D. students Xuetao Wei and Iulian Neamtiu and current UCR professor of computer science Michalis Faloutsos, 9 percent of popular free...
UC Divests $25M from prison stocks
The University of California has sold approximately $25 million worth of investment stocks from private prison corporations — the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Geocorp and G4S. This decision was made on Dec. 1...
Obama outlines executive action on gun control
On Tuesday, Jan. 5, President Obama gave a speech at the White House addressing gun violence in the U.S. The president outlined executive actions that he purports will help reduce gun violence, including improving...
ASUCR appoints new elections director
This week’s ASUCR senate meeting saw the appointment of Melina Reyes as the new ASUCR elections director for the 2015-2016 school year.
Mahera Khan, a fourth-year sociology major, was also selected as the first director...
The Lab: UCR researcher 3-D prints the cosmic web
UCR physics and astronomy researcher Miguel Aragon-Calvo has created a 3-D printed model of the cosmic web — a network of filaments of dark matter, believed by many astronomers to form the basis of...
Highlander Newsroom (1/6/16)
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about our winter break and New Years Resolutions, the Corinthian Colleges scandal and the 2016 Coachella lineup.
Be sure to catch the Highlander Newsroom on the radio,...
The fault in our activism: What the Facebook filter won’t do
In many respects, social media has provided an incredible gateway for the mass publicization of global issues. As a result, people have resorted from tweeting and participating in social media campaigns such as the...