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UCR moves to vaccinate front-line healthcare employees Courtesy of Pexels In the interest of protecting front-line healthcare employees, UCR’s Student Health Services (SHS) received a 100 dose shipment of the Moderna vaccine via Riverside County. According to William Rall, senior administrative officer of SHS, administration of the vaccine began on Wednesday, Jan. 6.  The California Department of Public Health’s vaccination plan prioritizes healthcare workers who operate in direct contact ...

Highlander Post Views: 994 On Wednesday, Jan. 13, ASUCR held their second meeting of the quarter and passed a resolution detailing the implementation of new protocol meant to make the process of reporting discrimination on campus easier for students.  Joshua Wang /The Highlander SR-W21-002 Protocol to Report Discrimination on Campus was submitted in partnership with the Middle Eastern Student Center (MESC), Community Outreach Director Samia Alkam, CHASS Senators Mufida Assad and Seb...

Dr. Moses serves as a professor of anthropology, associate vice chancellor for diversity, equity and excellence and executive director for conflict resolution at UCR. Her research focuses on the broad question regarding the origins of social inequality in complex societies through the use of comparative ethnographic and survey methods. Q: The treatment of largely white […]

Highlander Courtesy of Matt Zalewski via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA-4.0 It’s time for the U.S. to decriminalize drug possession, and it appears that a majority of the nation agrees with this too. The 2020 election saw many measures and legislation on the ballot, some involving the legalization and decriminalization of various drugs 一 primarily marijuana. Four states, New Jersey, South Dakota, Montana and Arizona, voted to legalize recreational use while Mississippi voted to ...

Post Views: 6,013 General cargo ship ARVIN with 15 crew on board reportedly sank or sinking at Bartin anchorage, Turkey, Black sea coast, on Jan 17. Two crew reportedly died, SAR was still under way as of 1130 UTC Jan 11. The ship was en route from Poti Georgia to Burgas Bulgaria, and obviously, anchored at Bartin anchorage in an attempt to shelter from storm. Most probably, she couldn’t stand against strong wind and waves and either broke in two, or was overwhelmed, while being anchor...

Highlander Post Views: 1,880 The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Culture Specialty Crop Research Initiative has awarded a grant of $4.4 million solely to UCR in the name of avocado preservation. Avocado orchards are currently endangered because of potentially lethal threats, such as Laurel Wilt, Phytophthora root rot and soil salinity.  In particular, Laurel Wilt, caused by the fungus Raffaelea lauricola, has been shown to inflict ir...

Highlander Post Views: 1,120 Raging wildfires, a sweeping global pandemic, a turbulent presidential election and much more, the year 2020 has been incredibly unrelenting for everyone in the U.S. and around the world. Though the approach of a few calamitous events has been hinted at in years past — police brutality cases and global warming both contributing to huge social unrest and continual wildfires, respectively — no one could have predicted that 2020 would become the year of ...

Highlander Post Views: 1,716 On Wednesday, Jan. 6, ASUCR held their first meeting of winter quarter where they reviewed the election timeline for the year. This year, the timeline was modified to reflect the university’s announcement that spring quarter would be held entirely remotely, marking one whole year of remote learning.  The announcement came in the form of a campus-wide email sent on Tuesday, Jan. 5 citing the third wave of the pandemic that has hit California and has cau...

On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Thomas M. Smith sent a campus wide email announcing that spring quarter instruction would continue remotely, finalizing the 2020-21 academic year at UCR as exclusively online. The future of spring quarter instruction looked bleak as health conditions in Riverside County worsened and coronavirus cases spiked, […]

Highlander Post Views: 1,658 UCR’s School of Medicine is partnering with Emalex Biosciences in producing a biological treatment for stuttering and will lead the second phase of clinical trials. UCR will serve as the lead site for a Phase 2 clinical trial that will evaluate the effectiveness of ecopipam, an investigational drug being tested for the treatment of stuttering in adults and Tourette syndrome in pediatric patients. Emalex Biosciences who developed ecopipam, will conduc...