UCR grad students organize march in solidarity with Santa Cruz wildcat protests
Approximately 350 protesters gathered in the lawn outside Orbach Science Library on March 5 to stand in solidarity with the UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) graduate student wildcat strike. Margarita Vizcarra, an organizer,...
Prospective senator holds campaign rally in the Inland Empire
Since 1998, Congresswoman Barbara Lee has represented California’s 12th congressional district in the House of Representatives and is currently running for California’s open United States (US) Senate seat, formerly occupied by Senator Dianne Feinstein....
Inland Empire Poverty Summit examines local economic hardship
The Inland Empire Poverty Summit was a conference held jointly by the UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty, a research program dedicated to understanding and combating regional poverty, and CalEITC4Me, a partnership...
Dining Services debuts food truck on campus
This past week, UC Riverside Dining services introduced the 32-foot Culinary Chameleon food truck as the newest addition to campus dining. Dining services are hopeful that the truck’s versatile menu will draw a large...
California colleges may begin gauging size of LGBT community
California state colleges and universities may soon be asking students about their sexual orientation on application forms as part of an effort to determine whether campuses are thoroughly servings its student populations. The move
has...
Highlander Newsroom 11/05/14
This week on the Highlander Newsroom, we discuss how we celebrated Halloween, the convivial atmosphere of the Food Truck Festival and how student athletes are treated in the wake of the college athletics cheating...
UCR professor awarded grant to help middle school students with learning disabilities
Professor at the UCR Graduate School of Education Rollanda O’Connor has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Educational Sciences to fund her ongoing research on how...
UCR students can get additional benefits in new health insurance plan
The cost of UCR’s student health insurance plan (SHIP) is expected to rise from $348 to $464 per quarter for undergraduates and from $898 to $987 per quarter for graduates come fall quarter of...
UCR biologists make progress in colon cancer research
Recent studies by a team of UCR cell biologists have led to new prospects in the field of colon cancer, which annually kills 50,000 people in the United States. In a collaboration with Australian...