Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Political Recap: Setting the stage for the third Republican debate

This Wednesday, Nov. 8, contenders for the Republican presidential nomination will converge in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, for the third Republican primary debate. Yet, two months before...

ASUCR Meeting four of the fall quarter

The fourth Associated Students of UCR (ASUCR) Senate meeting took place on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. All senators were present, excluding Senators Alex Lu, Kevin Nguyen, Kaden Ho and Anjana Narasimhan. The meeting began...

United States vetoes Brazilian authored UN Security Council draft resolution

Last month, in the United Nations Security Council, the United States vetoed a draft resolution authored by Brazil, which called for a “humanitarian pause” in Gaza and “strongly urges the continuous, sufficient and unhindered...

The Christopoulos Lab: Modeling Action Regulation funded by NIH

Professor Vasileios Christopoulos, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside, gained a five-million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study action regulation in Parkison’s patients that will undergo...
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Score for Sumud: A collective reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Memory of Forgetfulness’

On Oct. 25, 2023, from 9:00 a.m.- 8:00 p.m, the University of California Riverside's (UCR) Memory and Resistance Laboratory staged a collective reading of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s “Memory of Forgetfulness” in an event...
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First case of brain worms in Australia

Recently, an Australian case has been brought to attention where a woman was found with a 3-inch long parasitic roundworm which was surgically removed from her skull. The 64-year-old woman was sent to the...
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Public Service Career Fair faces silent protest

For the first time in three years, the University of California, Riverside’s School of Public Policy hosted a Public Service Career Fair. The event occurred on Oct. 25 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m....
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Native American garden opens on campus

After years of planning and preparation, with part of the construction process delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Native American garden opened on campus, across from the HUB in the University of California, Riverside....
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Civil Rights Project report details evidence of segregation in schools

Discussing segregation that still exists within the American education system, University of California Riverside (UCR) alongside the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Civil Rights Project explored the potential role of schools in addressing...

Special elections brings forth new members

The third Associated Students of UCR (ASUCR) Senate meeting took place on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. All senators were present, excluding Senators Alex Lu, Kevin Nguyen and Amariah Peedikayil. The meeting began with a...