UCR organizations join together to promote the UCR Counts! Initiative
The UCR Counts! Census 2020 Complete Count Committee is a team of campus leaders who are joining together to ensure that UCR and its communities are accurately accounted for during this year’s census.
The committee...
UCR’s Free Speech Working Group holds first public forum, addresses student concerns
On Thursday, Feb. 20, UCR’s Free Speech Working Group, an organization on campus consisting of students, faculty and staff which promotes transparency in the enforcement of campus policy, held an open panel to explain...
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...
Joseph Sanberg shows us how to “actually fix things”
At 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15 in INTS 1113, UCR’s School of Public Policy (SPP) hosted a seminar entitled, “We Have to Actually Fix Things” featuring businessman Joseph Sanberg, in which he spoke...
UCR researchers identify potential alternative for plastic waste
Researchers at UC Riverside are making significant developments in sustainability research. In a recent study, Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz, a UCR assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering, and her colleagues detailed a method to...
$50 million withheld from UC in revised California budget plan
On Thursday, May 11, Gov. Jerry Brown released a revised budget plan for California. This budget plan will see state expenditure increase by over $3.3 billion with state agencies increasing the amount of jobs...
CE-CERT prepares climate and air quality training program for summer launch
Just around a year ago, the South Coast Air Quality Management District donated $1 million to fund the Air Quality and Climate Change Training program (ACT) at UCR’s Center of Environmental Research and Technology...
New testing sites open on campus to accommodate more students
On Feb. 1, UCR added two new testing sites on campus located at the Student Success Center and Bannockburn room G-105. This comes as an effort to combat long wait times and large groups...
Tree plantings to help reduce UC Riverside’s carbon footprint
About 400 trees are being planted throughout UC Riverside with the help of a grant provided by the Green Trees for the Golden State Grant Program, a statewide initiative to support sustainable urban and...
R’Kids to propose new student parent resource center in Bannockburn
R’Kids, a student-led organization dedicated to offering a community and resources for student parents are currently in the midst of attempting to institutionalize their organization and gain a space on campus to carry out...