UCR Newsroom

2006 Headlines

• 12/22/06 NASA Supports UCR Research on Improved Solar Cells for Spacecraft
• 12/15/06 An Evening with Eric Stoltz at UCR Palm Desert
• 12/15/06 UC Riverside Playwriting Professor Pens Script for ‘Monk’ Episode
• 12/13/06 UCR-Led Research Team Detects “Top Quark,” a Basic Constituent of Matter
• 12/11/06 Three UCR Engineering Professors Named IEEE Fellows
• 12/08/06 Mel Gibson Film Plays Fast and Loose with History, UC Riverside Scholar Says
• 12/06/06 The Inland Empire's Literary Legacy is Celebrated in an Anthology Called "Inlandia"
• 12/05/06 UCR Associate Professor Discusses Tea, the World’s Second-Most Popular Drink, on History Channel's "Modern Marvels"
• 12/04/06 UC Riverside ARTSblock Gets Creative with Building Demolition
• 12/04/06 UCR Dean of College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Named Provost of Wright State University
• 11/30/06 Plant ‘Doctors’ Come to Town
• 11/29/06 UCR Studying Self-Organizing Smart Wireless Networks
• 11/28/06 UC Riverside’s Holstein Public Lecture Takes on the Clash Between Religion and the Press
• 11/27/06 UCR Receives Support for Water Testing Research
• 11/23/06 Twenty-One UCR Faculty Receive AAAS Fellowships
• 11/21/06 “An Evening with Larry Gelbart” at UCR Palm Desert
  
• 11/21/06 Stellar Cast of New Faculty Joins UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
• 11/20/06 UCR Professor Reappointed to State Water Board
• 11/17/06 Gift to Fund Dean's Position for the Medical School at UC Riverside
• 11/16/06 UC Regents Authorize UCR to Proceed with Plans for Medical School
• 11/13/06 Media Advisory: UC Regents to Consider New Medical School at UC Riverside
• 11/13/06 UC Riverside Hosts High School Students for Gluck Day of the the Arts Nov. 17
• 11/07/06 Gneiss Poetry Series Moves to UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center
• 11/07/06 UCR Chancellor Approves New Child Care Facility on Campus
• 11/07/06 UC Riverside Graduate Presents Documentary Film “Living On the Dime” at Mellon Lecture in Public History
  
• 11/07/06 Climate Change Extends Beyond the Weather
• 11/06/06 Sweeney Arts Day at UC Riverside Teaches About the Future of Art
• 11/06/06 National Research Group to Award UCR Low-Emissions Vehicle Research
• 11/06/06 UCR Researchers Win Entomological Society of America Awards
• 11/03/06 Seminar on Small Business Funding Set at UCR Palm Desert
  
• 11/03/06 Desert Film Society Brings Four Screenings to UCR Palm Desert
  
  
• 11/01/06 Two UCR Researchers Named Fulbright Scholars
• 11/01/06 AGSM's Don Siegel Appointed to Department of Commerce Committee
• 11/01/06 UCR Professor Keeps Bringing in the Grant Money Even After Retirement
• 10/30/06 British Library to Allow Free Access to Database of English Language Documents
• 10/30/06 UC Riverside Welcomes 19 New Faculty Members in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• 10/30/06 UCR Celebrates Bell Tower's 40th Anniversary with a Chancellor's Carillon Concert Series
• 10/27/06 New Engineering Faculty in Nanoscience and Bioengineering
• 10/26/06 UCR Student Selected to Receive Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship
• 10/26/06 The University of California, Riverside Wildfire Experts
• 10/24/06 KUCR Staffers Spotlighted on MTVU Awards Show
• 10/23/06 Be a Rocket Scientist for a Day, Or at Least Meet One
• 10/20/06 UC Riverside Hosts “Keepers of the Language” Conference Saturday, Nov. 4
• 10/20/06 Wheelchair Mobility Awareness at UCR
• 10/19/06 A Photographer who Never Stopped Innovating
• 10/18/06 UCR Biologist Discusses Spider Silk, a Substance Stronger Than Steel, on History Channel
• 10/16/06 UCR to Host 2007 Western Regional LGBTQIA Conference
• 10/16/06 UC Riverside Launches New Quarterly Publication
• 10/11/06 UC Police to Hold Campus Safety Forums
• 10/10/06 Suspect Arrested in Campus Sexual Assault
• 10/10/06 Young 21st Century Researchers Focus on Ancient Maya Oct. 23 at UCR
• 10/09/06 AGSM Named a "Best Business School" in Princeton Review Survey
• 10/09/06 UC Riverside Professor Writes Book That Examines Human Exposure to Toxins in the Environment
• 10/09/06 Water Quality Research at UCR May Be Bridge for Community College Students
• 10/06/06 UCR Student Awarded $25,000 Scholarship by Women's Group
• 10/06/06 KPFK’s Ian Masters to Moderate Iraq War Forum at UC Riverside
• 10/06/06 UCR-Led Research Team Receives $5 Million Grant to Study How Ecology and Evolution Interact in Nature
  
• 10/04/06 Media Advisory: From Carbon Nanotubes and Walking Molecules to Female Crickets in Search of Mates, Conference Spotlights UCR Undergraduate Research
• 10/04/06 Health Development is Focus of Lecture at UCR
• 10/03/06 Bond Measure Could Bring $92 million to UCR
• 10/02/06 Xuemei Chen Receives the 2006 Charles Albert Shull Award
• 09/26/06 Campus Memorial Service Planned for Two UC Riverside Students
• 09/25/06 UC Riverside Opens New Academic Year with Convocation Wednesday, Sept. 27
• 09/22/06 Crickets on Hawaiian Island Develop Silent Wings in Response to Parasitic Attack
• 09/21/06 UC Advisory Group To Recommend UCR Proceed with Final Plans for Medical School
• 09/21/06 Latest research findings at UC Exotic/Invasive Pests and Diseases Research Workshop
• 09/20/06 Tom Lutz to Direct UCR Palm Desert Master of Fine Arts Program
• 09/19/06 UCR Hosts Meeting with Neighborhood Residents
• 09/19/06 Record Number of New Students Move Into UCR Residence Halls
• 09/18/06 UCR Extension Leader to Head for Florida
• 09/15/06 Postdoc Receives a Rockefeller Fellowship
• 09/14/06 Researchers Find Evidence of the Earliest Writing in the New World
• 09/14/06 KUCR Radio Offers “Issues and Dialog” on Global Warming and U.S. Policy in Iraq
  
• 09/14/06 UC Riverside Sets New Private Fund-Raising Record
• 09/13/06 Engineering Professor Publishes Handbook on Nanoscience
• 09/13/06 UC Riverside Taps Into Rich Vein of Homeschool Students
• 09/12/06 Douglas Altshuler to Receive the 2006 George A. Bartholomew Award
• 09/08/06 UCR Faculty Offer Expertise on the Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks of Sept. 11
• 09/07/06 Higher Education Expert Joins UCR Graduate School of Education
• 09/07/06 UCR’s College of Engineering Debuts new Department this Fall
• 09/06/06 Gluck Arts Outreach Celebrates 10 Years of Success at UC Riverside
• 08/31/06 Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Supports Engineering at UCR
• 08/30/06 Understanding of How Cells Turn Cancerous Advances at UCR
• 08/29/06 Sunscreens Can Damage Skin, Researchers Find
• 08/25/06 Red Fish, Blue Fish, Distinctive Color Keeps Gene Pools Healthy
• 08/22/06 A $3.3 Million Federal Grant Creates New Partnership
• 08/22/06 UC Riverside Theatre Faculty ‘Perform’ All Over the World
• 08/21/06 Researchers Develop Flood-Tolerant California Rice
• 08/18/06 Kiki Nocella Appointed Consultant on Medical School Proposal
• 08/18/06 Inland Area Attorney Bruce Varner Appointed to UC Board of Regents
• 08/17/06 Molecules Spontaneously Form Honeycomb Network Featuring Pores of Unprecedented Size
• 08/14/06 AGSM Professor Wins Prestigious Marketing Science Prize
• 08/11/06 UCR Ranked a Top Campus for LGBT Students
• 08/09/06 UC Riverside Gets a National Ratings Boost
• 08/09/06 New Flood-tolerant Rice Offers Relief for World's Poorest Farmers
• 08/07/06 UCR Botanist Receives High Honor from Botanical Society of America
  
• 08/03/06 Technique Used Commonly in Physics Finds Application in Neuroscience
• 08/02/06 Summer Research for Visiting Undergraduates Now Includes Engineering, Chemistry
  
• 08/01/06 Artist Examines "What We Think Now" about Iraq
• 08/01/06 UCR Summer Math, Science Program Lets Kids be Scientists, Naturally
• 07/27/06 UCR Fundraising Campaign for Medical School Gets a $5 Million Boost
• 07/27/06 Researchers Show How the Brain Turns On Innate Behavior
• 07/24/06 UCR Scientists Help Train Indian Colleagues in Air Pollution Management
• 07/24/06 UCR Faculty Member Elected Fellow of Entomological Society of America
• 07/20/06 UC Riverside College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Has New Leader
• 07/17/06 UCR Assistant Professor Part of Film Festival in La Jolla
• 07/13/06 UCR Researchers Determine Genetic Origin of California Wild Radish
• 07/13/06 W.M. Keck Foundation Grant Boosts UCR’s Air Pollution Research
• 07/11/06 UC Riverside Needs High School Students for Free Summer Camp for the Arts
• 06/30/06 Seeking a World of New Life? Look in the Trees
• 06/29/06 Professor Armando Navarro Receives Civil Rights Award
• 06/29/06 California Teach Seeks to Multiply the Number of Science and Math Teachers
• 06/28/06 Leadership Changes Announced at UCR Palm Desert
• 06/28/06 UC Riverside’s Bell Tower Turns 40
• 06/28/06 Plant Cell Biologist, Sociologist Recognized for Supporting Undergraduate Research
• 06/27/06 The New Reality of Adjustable Rate Mortgages
  
• 06/26/06 UC Riverside Makes Economic Waves Totaling $953 Million
• 06/23/06 UCR Spider Silk Researchers Uncover Treasure Trove of Genetic Information About the Wonder Fibers
  
• 06/20/06 Schools Outreach Center Receives Irvine Foundation Grant to Support and Expand Its Work
• 06/20/06 Tiny Wasp Saves Pacific Island Paradise
• 06/19/06 Eight Professors Recognized for Teaching Excellence
• 06/16/06 UCR Receives Largest Gift in Its History
• 06/14/06 UCR Business School Hires Renowned Technology Transfer Economist
• 06/13/06 UC Riverside Holds 52nd Annual Commencement Ceremonies
• 06/13/06 Retired UCR Scientist Honored by Moldovan National Academy of Sciences
• 06/13/06 Soil Scientist, Historian Receive Doctoral Dissertation Advisor, Mentor Awards
• 06/13/06 UCR Gets Boost in Support for Graduate Education in Engineering
• 06/01/06 UCR Faculty Names its Distinguished Faculty
• 06/01/06 UCR one of 50 Universities Nationally to Receive Undergraduate Science Grants
• 05/31/06 UCR Researcher Makes Alzheimer's Breakthrough
• 05/31/06 UCR Chemist Named European Inventor of the Year
• 05/25/06 Emmy-winning Documentary Filmmaker to Speak at UC Riverside
• 05/25/06 UC Riverside will hold Ceremony to Honor UCR Family
• 05/19/06 UC Riverside Updates Plan for Future Law School
• 05/19/06 UC Riverside Hosts New Web Site on Asian Americans in Riverside
• 05/17/06 It’s House Hunting Time for Bees — Make Yours Unattractive
• 05/16/06 The New Reality of Adjustable Rate Mortgages
  
  
• 05/16/06 Professor Margaret Nash Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
  
• 05/16/06 Plant Protection from Cold Decoded
• 05/16/06 French-German Group Verifies High-Temperature Superconductivity Theory Proposed by UCR Physicist
• 05/15/06 Engineering Professor Examines New Designs for Ultra Fast Nano-Oscillators
• 05/15/06 UC Riverside Chancellor Speaks at National Summit to Help Girls Keep Pace in Math and Science
• 05/15/06 UCR Submits Proposal for School of Medicine to University of California Officials
• 05/15/06 UCR Summer Outreach Programs Seeking Participants
• 05/12/06 UCR Graduate Student’s Research Receives Honors from South Coast Air Quality Management District
  
• 05/12/06 Documentary Director Shola Lynch Gave the Mellon Lecture in Public History
• 05/10/06 Veteran Television Actor Jed Allan Takes Spotlight at UCR Palm Desert
• 05/09/06 UC Riverside Department of Theatre Performs Hilarious “Urinetown”
• 05/09/06 UC Riverside Offers "Primavera in the Gardens" Sunday, May 21
• 05/09/06 New Way to Track Microbial Pathogens in Soils Gains U.S.D.A. Support
• 05/08/06 UC Riverside and City of Riverside Working Together
  
• 05/08/06 UCR Alumnus to Speak on Patient-Centered Approach to Medical Education
• 05/04/06 UCR Geophysicist on Lead National Quake Prediction Panel
• 05/04/06 Conscientiousness a Better Predictor of College Success than SAT's
• 05/03/06 Bioengineering Professor on National Health Sciences Panel
• 05/02/06 ‘Adopt A Sailor’has desert premiere at UCR Palm Desert
• 05/02/06 Gluck Day of the Arts Lets Children Experience the Arts
• 05/02/06 UCR Hires Two Pioneering Internet Retail Scholars
• 05/01/06 Former Vice President Dan Quayle Appears at UCR Palm Desert
  
• 04/26/06 French Film Fest Sponsored by UC Riverside at University Village
• 04/26/06 UC Riverside to Host Conference on C.S. Lewis’ ‘Narnia’ Chronicles
• 04/25/06 Jameson Foundation Boosts Annual UC Riverside Scholarship Fund
• 04/24/06 International Meeting of Vitamin D Scientists Reveals Most Not Getting Enough to Maintain Health
  
• 04/24/06 Will U.S. Economic Growth Continue?
• 04/24/06 UC Riverside Accepts More Freshmen than Ever Before
  
• 04/24/06 Family Medicine Scholar to Discuss How a UCR Medical School Could Solve Health Crisis in Inland Southern California
• 04/21/06 Carbon Nanotubes in a Vacuum are Excellent Conductors, Heat Detectors, UCR Research Finds
  
• 04/21/06 UCR Researchers Discover How Mosquitoes Use Blood to Reproduce
• 04/20/06 UCR Palm Desert Spotlights Emerging Writers
  
• 04/20/06 MBA Hopefuls Invited to UCR’s Graduate School of Management
  
• 04/20/06 UCR/CMP Exhibit Explores Surveillance in Society
• 04/20/06 Chinese University Officials visit UC Riverside to Form a Partnership and a New Research Center in Beijing
• 04/18/06 UCR Mechanical Engineering Students to Hold Research Symposium
• 04/17/06 Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros Speaks at UC Riverside About Affordable Housing
• 04/14/06 Dolley Madison is Subject of UCR Historian’s Latest Book
• 04/13/06 Actress Gena Rowlands Appears at UCR Palm Desert
• 04/13/06 UC Riverside Author Travels World to Share ‘Becoming Abigail’
• 04/13/06 UCR Engineering Professor is Malaria Detective
• 04/13/06 Interstellar Chemical Tamed in The Lab at UCR
• 04/12/06 Members of Riverside County Congressional Delegation Support Establishment of UCR School of Medicine
• 04/12/06 Ten Students Cited for Trespassing
• 04/10/06 Reduced Traffic Flow On Canyon Crest
• 04/10/06 Student Research in Spotlight at UC Riverside Conference on Gender
• 04/10/06 UC Riverside Psychologist Explores Human Perception, Finds ‘Wow Factor’
• 04/10/06 Video Sensor Network Laboratory at UCR Receives Federal Funding
• 04/10/06 Ambassador Ghougassian Speaks at UC Riverside About Recent Diplomacy in Iraq
• 04/06/06 Professor W.P. Bitters, Key Curator of the Citrus Variety Collection Dies
• 04/06/06 Coachella Valley Pest Control District Honors UCR Entomologist
• 04/05/06 LGBT Resource Center Opens Wireless CyberCenter April 21
• 04/03/06 Accomplished Novelist Next in UCR Palm Desert’s “Readings in the Evenings”
  
• 04/03/06 UCR Scientists Are Part of National Effort to Develop Better Barley
• 03/30/06 American Politics Have Become Polarized Into Red and Blue Since World War I
• 03/29/06 MBA Hopefuls Invited to UCR’s Graduate School of Management Open House
• 03/29/06 UCR/Sweeney Art Gallery will open April 1 at the Intersection of University Avenue and Main Street
• 03/28/06 Fifth Annual César E. Chávez 5K Run/Walk
• 03/28/06 A Better Way to Cool Computer Chips Receives Support
• 03/27/06 Renowned Health Services Researcher to Speak on Relevance of Primary Care and Specialty Care for the Inland Empire
• 03/27/06 Professor Ruth apRoberts Never Stopped Teaching
• 03/25/06 UC Riverside Author Taking “A Million Nightingales” on National Tour, Starting in Southern California
• 03/23/06 UCR-Led Study Identifies Crucial Mechanism Involved in Immune Response Against Viruses
• 03/22/06 Deep Canyon Reserve is the Coachella Valley’s Desert Wilderness for Science
• 03/21/06 UCR Invites USC Accounting Scholar for next Business Breakfast Talk
• 03/21/06 Rep. Ken Calvert Recognized for Advocacy on Science, Education
• 03/20/06 University Celebrates Citrus Station's 100th Anniversary
• 03/20/06 KCET Spotlights a Century of Citrus Research
• 03/17/06 The Human Impact of Siege of Fallujah Examined
• 03/17/06 Defense Department Awards to UCR Helps Develop Technologies for Military Uses
• 03/17/06 CEOs CFOs Swearing by Their Numbers Boosts Public Confidence, UCR Research Says
  
• 03/16/06 UCR and Education Partners to Hold Celebration of Women in Science and Mathematics Careers
  
• 03/15/06 A Freeway Construction Blast Shattered Windows at UCR and Was Felt Throughout a Large Section of Campus
• 03/14/06 UCR Researchers Grow Bone Cells on Carbon Nanotubes
• 03/13/06 Former Ford Motor Co. Executive, UCR Benefactor Dies
• 03/10/06 Truth is More Fascinating Than "The DaVinci Code"
• 03/10/06 Inland Accounting Leader Named Executive Fellow at UCR’s Graduate School of Management
  
• 03/09/06 Women’s History Month Brings Baseball Players to UC Riverside
• 03/09/06 National Science Foundation Funds Two Additional Undergraduate Summer Research Projects at UCR
  
• 03/08/06 Nature Preservation, Economic Growth Topic of UCR Palm Desert Talk
  
• 03/06/06 External Advisory Board to Guide UCR on Development of Medical School
• 03/06/06 UCR Engineering Professors, Graduate Students to “Intern” with California Companies
  
• 03/02/06 UCR Offers Music of Java, the Philippines, the Andes, and Japan
• 03/02/06 UCR researchers design chip that can improve citrus varieties
• 02/28/06 University of Pennsylvania Sociologist to Speak at UC Riverside March 8
• 02/28/06 UC Riverside Dedicates Archive of Tuskegee Airmen
• 02/27/06 Former President of the American Medical Association to Speak on How Inland Southern California Can Expand Medical Education
• 02/27/06 Mechanical Engineering Professor Receives Microsoft Grant
• 02/24/06 UCR Researchers Unlock New Information About How Cells Determine Their Functions
• 02/23/06 UCR Film Students Get Closer Look at Hollywood Veteran
• 02/22/06 UCR’s Environmental Research Institute Director to Speak on Ways To Achieve Energy Independence
  
• 02/22/06 UC Riverside Lecture Series Honors Former UCR Professor
• 02/21/06 Seven UCR Entomologists Honored by Professional Society
• 02/21/06 Latino Writer Next in UCR Palm Desert’s “Readings in the Evenings”
• 02/21/06 Engineering Week Events at UC Riverside
• 02/17/06 Building Technology Industries, Topic of Next UCR Business Breakfast Talk
• 02/17/06 Riverside Schools Science Fair Projects to go on Display at UC Riverside
• 02/14/06 “Imagining The Future” Lecture Series Continues With the Development of Poet, Writer, Artist Juan Felipe Herrera
• 02/14/06 UCR Researchers Release New Variety of Asparagus
• 02/14/06 Sex Matters at UCR: Graduate Student Research Conference Examines Sexualities From a Variety of Disciplines
• 02/13/06 UC Riverside Chancellor Calls for Emphasis on Student Success at ACE Annual Meeting
• 02/13/06 UC Riverside Ethnic Studies Professor Alfredo Mirandé Reads Excerpts from New Book
• 02/07/06 Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series Features Poet Billy Collins
• 02/07/06 Economics Professors at UC Riverside Paint U.S. History by the Numbers
• 02/02/06 UC Riverside Researchers Identify Clay as Major Contributor to Oxygen that Enabled Early Animal Life
• 02/02/06 Noted Director Val Guest next in “Nuts and Bolts” Entertainment Speakers Series
  
• 02/01/06 UCSF’s Kevin Grumbach to Speak on Medical Education in the Inland Empire
• 02/01/06 Environmental Research Institute at UCR Puts Research to Work for Public Policy
• 02/01/06 UC Riverside Creative Writing Department to Host Writers Week Feb. 14-18
• 01/31/06 UCR’s Executive Vice Chancellor/Provost Ellen Wartella to Present Talk on Effects of Food Marketing Trends on Children
• 01/26/06 Marxist Literary Scholar, Louisiana Poet Laureate to speak in February at UC Riverside
• 01/26/06 Mix of Scholars and Business Leaders at New UCR Speaker Series
• 01/25/06 UCR Blakely Center Conference to Explore Regional Teamwork
• 01/25/06 UCR Alumnus Richard Schrock Awarded Chancellor’s Medal
• 01/24/06 Peer Educators Work to "Stop the Hate"
• 01/23/06 UCR Grad’s Advice for Scientists, Entrepreneurs to Debut on UCTV
• 01/23/06 Nobel Prize Winning Chemist is First of Three Speakers in Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series
• 01/20/06 UCR Chancellor Testifies at Joint Legislative Hearing on Education at JPL
• 01/20/06 UCR Palm Desert announces “Readings in the Evenings” series
• 01/19/06 Tribal Government Gaming in California Brings Jobs, Income, to Areas Most in Need of Development
• 01/19/06 Shows Put UCR/CMP Focus on Outsiders: Immigrants, Artists on Edge
• 01/19/06 The Legacy of Japanese Internment Examined
• 01/19/06 Fewer fish eggs, smaller fish result from over-fishing
• 01/18/06 UCR Launches Mathematics Careers Program with Ontario Event
• 01/18/06 Collapse of Civilizations Topic of First “Imagining The Future” Lecture, Part of New Series
  
• 01/18/06 UC Riverside has New Assistant Vice Chancellor
• 01/12/06 UCSF’s Steven Schroeder to speak on need for a new medical school in California
• 01/12/06 Alumni College Debuts at Homecoming 2006
  
• 01/12/06 Rooftop Rainwater Collection Project gets Regional, National Attention
• 01/10/06 State Budget Proposal Looks Good to UC Riverside
• 01/05/06 UCR Palm Desert to kick off “Nuts and Bolts” series with Actor Luke Perry and a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry
• 01/05/06 Underground Railroad is Subject of Hip Hop Theatre Piece at UC Riverside Jan. 15
• 01/04/06 UC Riverside Adds a NASA Veteran to Leadership Team

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