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• Getting Help to Live Tobacco-Free, One Day at a Time
  (May 23, 2013) With the help of smoking cessation expert V.J. Sleight, UCR's Bob Slater is working to give up the smoking habit he picked up 40 years ago.
• Philosopher to Lecture on Moral Responsibility
  (May 22, 2013) John Martin Fischer, distinguished professor of philosophy, will discuss moral responsibility in the 61st Faculty Research Lecture on May 31.
• Science Research Grants Related to Immortality Announced
  (May 21, 2013) Phenomena related to near-death experiences, immortality in virtual reality, and genes that prevent a species of freshwater hydra from aging are among the first research proposals funded by The Immortality Project at the University of California, Riverside.
• Study: Ethicists’ Behavior Not More Moral
  (May 21, 2013) Do ethicists engage in better moral behavior than other professors? The answer is no. Nor are they more likely than nonethicists to act according to values they espouse, according to researchers from the University of California, Riverside and Stetson University in Florida.
• Quality of Life Summit Set for UC Riverside
  (May 21, 2013) A University of California, Riverside administrator and two students and the state superintendent of public instruction will be speakers during the Quality of Life Summit presented by the Inland Empire Economic Partnership on Wednesday, May 22 at UC Riverside.
• UC Riverside Named as a ‘Next Generation University’
  (May 21, 2013) The University of California, Riverside is among six institutions hailed in a national study by the New American Foundation as a “Next Generation University” for success in enhancing student outcomes and maintaining robust research profiles despite economic pressures.
• California Poet Laureate Launches Bullying-awareness Project
  (May 20, 2013) California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera has developed i-Promise Joanna, a bullying-awareness project launched this year with fifth-graders in the Inland Empire.
• New Leader of Teacher Education Program
  (May 17, 2013) The University of California, Riverside Graduate School of Education has named a new assistant dean/director of its teacher education program.

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