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• Kathy Barton of UC Riverside Named Staff Advisor-designate
  (May 16, 2012) Kathy Barton of UC Riverside has been selected as the 2012-2014 Staff Advisor-designate to the University of California Regents, UC President Mark G. Yudof announced today (May 16).
• UCR Programs Get Additional Funding to Send Local Kids to College
  (May 16, 2012) The University of California, Riverside will be able to continue helping students from disadvantaged areas go to college. On May 8, the U.S. Department of Education gave UC Riverside more than $3.1 million in grants to re-fund the Upward Bound programs.
• Manmade Pollutants May Be Driving Earth’s Tropical Belt Expansion
  (May 16, 2012) UC Riverside-led team identifies black carbon and tropospheric ozone as most likely drivers of large-scale atmospheric circulation change in the Northern Hemisphere tropics.
• White to Give Annual “State of the Campus” Address at CUC Breakfast on May 30
  (May 16, 2012) University of California, Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White will present his annual "State of the Campus" address to the Citizens' University Committee (CUC) on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 7:15 a.m. at University Extension Rooms D/E.
• Slow-motion Film Reveals What Happens When Lizards Drop Their Tails
  (May 16, 2012) On National Geographic Wild UC Riverside’s Timothy Higham details lizard’s unique escape plan.
• Novel drug candidates offer new route to controlling inflammation
  (May 15, 2012) Pursuing a relatively untapped route for regulating the immune system, an international team of researchers has designed and conducted initial tests on molecules that have the potential to treat diseases involving inflammation, such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke and sepsis.
• Recruiting for Free Engineering Summer Camp
  (May 15, 2012) The UC Riverside Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) program is giving highly motivated seventh- and eighth-grade students an opportunity to experience engineering.
• UC Riverside Student United Way Group Honored With Two National Awards
  (May 15, 2012) Although it is just a little more than a year old, the Student United Way at the University of California, Riverside has already made a big impression on a national level. The 35-member UCR group was presented the United in Action Volunteer Award and the Live United People’s Choice Award at the annual United Way Community Leaders Conference at the Gaylord at Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TV on May 2, 2012.

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