UC Riverside library to highlight Latino-American history
The UC Riverside library received the Latino Americans: 500 Years of History (LA 500) grant that will be used to host a series of cultural events on and around campus. The grant was awarded...
Ape face study refutes popular “use it, or lose it” misconception
Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel Wu's research investigating perceptual narrowing at the neural level disproves the prevalent idea that we lose certain abilities from underuse.
Perceptual narrowing is a behavioral and neurological theory that states...
News in Brief
Protests erupt in UCLA over blackface allegations
Hundreds of protesters came out to UCLA on Thursday, Oct. 8 to protest the campus’ Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority for throwing a “Kanye Western”...
UCR Professors use 3-D printing to protect avocado trees
UCR professor of entomology Richard Stouthamer and faculty members Akif Eskalen, and R. Duncan Selby have created a plastic trap using a 3-D printer to combat the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB), an invasive...
What you should expect to see on the 2016 ballot
November 2016 marks the next major election and is set to feature a few new measures and potentially many more to be voted on on the California ballot alone. Some of these possible items...
Highlander Newsroom 10/07/15
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we chat about The President of Ghana's speech at UCR, dining cuts and UCR's new athletic director, Tamica Smith Jones.
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UCR to participate in nationwide Million Student March
On November 12, UCR students will take part in a national day of protest called the Million Student March alongside several UC campuses and various other colleges and universities from states across the country....
District Attorney speaks on rising crime in Riverside
Last Thursday, UCR’s new School of Public Policy hosted Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin at the Center for Environmental Research (CE-CERT) building off campus. Hestrin lectured on the rising crime in Riverside County....
Conan O’Brien spotlights UCR engineers’ mushroom powered battery
On the October 1 broadcast of Conan O’Brien’s late night talk show and in observance of World Vegetarian Day, an engineering team from UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering was mentioned in his opening monologue...
Perris Valley Line blocks entrance to “C” hiking trail
The Perris Valley Line will begin running Metrolink test trains in October on upgraded tracks at the bottom of Big Springs Mountain, banning hikers from entering the Big Springs Road entrance to the “Big...