TruEvolution to host first AIDS Advocacy Night
TruEvolution, a Riverside organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues and HIV-AIDS prevention and elimination, will host an event on April 23 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The event, entitled...
Highlander Newsroom 04/15/15
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we discuss the ASUCR elections, talk about ways students can save water after California Governor Jerry Brown's drought announcement, and get excited over this year's Spring Splash lineup.
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Food Trucks Rolling in a Fourth Time at Annual Festival
Food truck fans are expected to flock once again toward the HUB Plaza, Bell Tower and Rivera walkway on April 15, as the UCR Housing, Dining and Residential Services in collaboration with ASUCR will...
Department of Physics and Astronomy to hold open house
UCR’s Department of Physics and Astronomy will hold an open house exhibition, free to the public, on Highlander Day, April 18. The exhibition will occur from 1-3:30 p.m. in the Physics Building.
The event will...
BCOE to expand online degree programs
The Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) will partner with Pearson, a global education program, to create a new online masters engineering program by fall 2015. The two-year program will have nine course requirements for...
UCR physicists assist in upgrading CERN hadron collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — in Geneva, Switzerland has restarted operations for the first time in two years at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)...
CALPIRG to push for open textbooks
Multiple Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG), including California’s CALPIRG, have published a report entitled the Billion Dollar Program, which displays the possibility for open textbooks to save $1.5 billion in textbook costs for students...
[YOUR]Side ban leads to formation of three parties
Side, a political party that dominated ASUCR elections last year, was banned after a recent judicial decision ruled that the party carried out discriminatory practices. The case, which extended the application deadline for candidates,...
ASUCR Elections: Director debates seek to improve marketing, outreach to students
Despite the windy weather conditions, unwavering support groups for the political parties Voice, CR and PAC: Pride, Action, Change were in attendance as director debates occurred last Wednesday.
Candidates running for the positions of personnel...
ASUCR approves ethnic and gender referendum, welcomes new senators
ASUCR voted unanimously last Wednesday to put the Highlander Empowerment Referendum on the 2015 ballot, which, if passed by the student body, will increase funding for UCR’s seven ethnic and gender programs starting in...