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2008 Headlines

• 12/23/08 Tomás Rivera Conference to Feature Screenwriter
• 12/19/08 Los Angeles Exhibition to Include UCR Artists
• 12/18/08 Thirteen UCR Faculty Members Recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 12/17/08 Expansion of National Colleges Study Funded
• 12/16/08 UCR Students Give Back as Part of Honors Program
• 12/16/08 New Student Services Building Means One-Stop Shopping
• 12/08/08 Harm-reduction Cigarettes Are More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes, UCR Study Finds
• 12/05/08 Writers Week Returns Feb. 3-7, 2009
• 12/05/08 Art Historian Recreates Complex 12th Century Mural
• 12/05/08 Osher Grants Offer Second Chances
• 12/05/08 UC Riverside Rice Geneticist Receives High Honor From U.S. Department of Agriculture
• 12/03/08 UCR Lecture to Focus on Immigration
• 12/03/08 Expectations of the Obama Administration
• 12/01/08 UC Riverside Graduate Students Are National Champions of Collegiate Competition in Entomology
• 12/01/08 Nationally Known Medical Educator Appointed Acting Vice Chancellor and Dean
• 11/25/08 Early Virus Detection in Cells Made Possible by Research at UCR
• 11/24/08 The Mix of Students at UC Riverside Makes for a Rich Environment
• 11/20/08 From Genes to Farmers’ Fields: “Waterproof” Rice Set to Make Waves in South Asia
• 11/20/08 Seminar at UC Riverside Pushes Stem Cell Research Boundaries
• 11/19/08 Future of Public Transportation Is UCR Lecture Topic
• 11/17/08 Desert Regional Medical Center Establishes Scholarship Fund for UCR Medical School
• 11/17/08 New UCR Program Puts Executives on Fast Track to the Top
• 11/14/08 UCR’s Executive Vice Chancellor Named “Everyday Superhero”
• 11/14/08 University of California, Riverside Offers Wildfire Experts
• 11/13/08 Vitamin D Expert at UC Riverside Leads UC Scientists' Call Recommending Increase in Daily Vitamin D Intake
• 11/13/08 UC Riverside Participates in Simulated Earthquake Response Drill
• 11/11/08 UC Riverside Helps Audi Make Greener Cars
• 11/10/08 Study Suggests Cost-Effective Way to Capture Storm Runoff
• 11/07/08 World-class Ecologist Appointed Director of University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States
• 11/04/08 UCR Scholars Analyze Election Results
• 11/03/08 Conference to Focus on Urban Planning in Fez, Morocco
• 11/03/08 Ecologists Say Metabolism Accounts for Why Natural Selection Favors Only Some Species
• 10/31/08 Lideres Campesinas Honors UCR Professor, Dean
• 10/30/08 Nov. 13 Conference Focuses on Logistics Industry
• 10/29/08 UCR Hosts Conference on Medievalism
• 10/29/08 Conscientious People Live Longer
• 10/28/08 Business Leaders Take Behind the Scenes Look at Science and Mathematics Education Conference
• 10/27/08 UCR Pipe Band to Co-host Solo Bagpipe Competition
• 10/27/08 UCR Scientist to Explore How Vegetation Affects Urban Heat Islands
• 10/24/08 Traveling Space Museum Lands at UC Riverside
• 10/23/08 UCR Enrollment Tops 18,000 students
• 10/22/08 How Eating Fruit and Vegetables Can Improve Cancer Patients’ Response to Chemotherapy
• 10/22/08 Public Lecture at UC Riverside Discusses Earthquake Preparedness
• 10/20/08 UC Riverside holds Preview Day Oct. 25
• 10/20/08 Which will it be? Red or Blue?
• 10/20/08 Open House at UCR Highlights Fun and Excitement in Physics and Astronomy
• 10/17/08 State of the Arts 2008 Conference Set for Nov. 6-8
• 10/17/08 Grant Boosts UCR’s Effort in Getting Inland Students into Higher Education
• 10/16/08 UCR Researcher Helps Develop India State Hunger Index
• 10/16/08 Inland Residents to Gather at UCR to View Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference 2008
  
• 10/16/08 Experts to Address Global Financial Crisis
• 10/16/08 UCR Holds Free Showing of "Autism: The Musical" on Nov. 2
• 10/15/08 Asian Americans Crucial in California Vote
• 10/15/08 UCR to Spend $3.3 Million for Outreach to Low-Income Students
• 10/14/08 UCR Library Offers Preview of School Curriculum
• 10/13/08 The Supernatural in Southeast Asian Studies
• 10/09/08 Vitamin D a Key Player in Overall Health of Several Body Organs, Says UCR’s Anthony Norman
• 10/09/08 Riverside Medical Clinic Pledges $1 Million for UCR School of Medicine
• 10/08/08 UCR Hosts Asian Film Festival Oct. 21-23
• 10/08/08 UC Riverside Announces Daniel Aldrich as UCR’s Vice Chancellor for Advancement
• 10/06/08 Asian American Voters to Play Pivotal Role in Presidential Election, Study Says
• 10/03/08 UCR Researchers Propose Minocycline as a Promising Drug for Patients with Fragile X Syndrome
• 10/02/08 UCR Biochemists Devise Method for Bypassing Aluminum Toxicity Effects in Plants
• 10/01/08 It Takes a Lot More than the Early Bird to Catch Worms
• 09/30/08 UCR Student Honored as Emerging Leader
• 09/29/08 UC Riverside First Year Programs Held Up as a Model for the UC System
• 09/26/08 Conference Highlights Strategies to Reduce Domestic Violence
• 09/25/08 Nearly All Elementary Schools in California Will Fail to Meet Mandated Proficiency Requirements by 2014, UCR Study Finds
• 09/24/08 California Indian Conference Planned Oct. 3-4
• 09/24/08 UC Riverside’s Business School Poised for Growth with Faculty New Hires
• 09/19/08 UC Riverside Opens New Academic Year with Convocation Monday, Sept. 22
• 09/17/08 Regents Approve UCR School of Public Policy
• 09/17/08 Cuban-American Voters Remain Republican
• 09/15/08 UCR Researchers Tap Nature in Search of Better Auto Design
• 09/11/08 UCR Botanist to Study Role of Plants in Southern California’s Drought
• 09/11/08 Graduate School of Education Students Survey Results Released
• 09/10/08 UCR’s Outreach Efforts Culminate with Science Education Coalition Summit Held at USC
  
  
• 09/10/08 First Beam for Large Hadron Collider, World’s Mightiest Particle Accelerator
• 09/09/08 UCR Pipe Band Takes First Place
• 09/02/08 UCR Playwright’s First Film Chosen for Festival
• 08/29/08 Four New Professors Welcomed at UCR’s Graduate School of Education
• 08/22/08 UCR Ranks Ninth for Innovation
• 08/21/08 Tahitian Vanilla Originated in Maya Forests, Says UC Riverside Botanist
• 08/20/08 Robert D. Grey named interim UC provost
• 08/19/08 UCR Researcher Develops Novel Method to Grow Human Embryonic Stem Cells
• 08/13/08 UCR to Offer Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies
• 08/13/08 UCR Entomologist Develops Electronic Tool to Identify California’s Thrips
• 08/13/08 Real Science, Real Jobs and Real Pay Through UCR Program
• 08/12/08 New Organization to Boost UCR Sports
• 08/11/08 UCR Graduate Student Discovers, Names Bacterium Linked to Psyllid Yellows, a Tomato and Potato Plant Disease
• 08/06/08 Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation Awards $1 Million to UCR
• 08/05/08 Entomologists Play Matchmakers for Cerambycid Beetles
• 08/01/08 UCR to Aid Former Foster Youth
• 07/30/08 Quake Lecture Really Rocks
  
  
• 07/29/08 UC Riverside Experts Weigh in on Beijing Olympics
• 07/29/08 After the Shaking, Campus Remains Open
• 07/28/08 UCR Soil Detective Featured in Soil Science Exhibit at Smithsonian Museum
• 07/25/08 E. coli and Salmonella Are No Match For Well-Prepared Scientists
• 07/25/08 From Student Life to Newly Discovered Life
• 07/22/08 Eaton Science Fiction Conference Returns May 1–3, 2009
• 07/22/08 Using Modern Tools to Learn About Ancient People
• 07/17/08 UC Regents Approve Establishment of New Medical School at UC Riverside
• 07/16/08 Basement of Arts Building To Be Reconstructed
• 07/15/08 UCR Mourns Popular English Professor
• 07/14/08 UCR Freshman Success Program Wins $514,875 Grant
• 07/10/08 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Awards Grant to UCR
• 07/10/08 UCR Professor Ranked Nation's Top Plant Scientist Based on References to His Research
• 07/09/08 Girls Get a Chance to Create Own Inventions at UCR Summer Camp
• 07/07/08 UCR Professor Part of a Team Developing an Electronic Nose for Quick Detection of Explosives
• 07/07/08 Student is Cookin' When it Comes to Culinary Talents
• 07/03/08 UCR Engineer Invited by National Academy of Engineering to Speak at Its Symposium
• 07/01/08 UCR Science Program Gets Literary
• 06/30/08 New Supercomputer at UCR Greatly Speeds Up Research in Computational Biology
• 06/27/08 Endowed Scholarship Honors Grey
• 06/26/08 Extra Curricular Activities May be the Glue That Keeps Students in School
• 06/26/08 UCR Bioengineer Receives High Honor From Chemical Engineers
• 06/25/08 UC Riverside's Economic Impact Tops $1 Billion
• 06/25/08 California Digital Newspaper Collection Honored
• 06/24/08 Working Together Can Solve Growth Issues
• 06/23/08 Discovery by UCR Physicists Could Enable Development of Faster Computers
• 06/19/08 UCR Graduate School of Education Earns Five-Year Accreditation
• 06/19/08 When It Comes to Brains, Size Matters
• 06/18/08 California’s Wildflowers Are Disappearing, New Book by UCR Ecologist Cautions
• 06/17/08 Influential UCR Administrator Sally Dow Died Sunday
• 06/17/08 Residents Can Really Unload at Incredible Bulk Event
• 06/16/08 Inspiration Plus Perspiration Equals Success with UCR’s MATE Program
• 06/13/08 Graduate Student Wins Fred Rogers Scholarship
  
• 06/13/08 Engineering Students Gain Global Perspective in Trip to China
• 06/12/08 Bourns College of Engineering Hosts the University of California Bioengineering Symposium
• 06/12/08 UCR Chemists Use ‘Green Chemistry’ to Produce Amines, Chemical Compounds Used Widely in Industry
• 06/12/08 UCR Professor Named to NSF Sociology Post
• 06/11/08 Start Date will be July 18 for New UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White
• 06/11/08 Renowned Biochemist to Lead UCR’s College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
• 06/10/08 UC Riverside Engineering Students Receive Research Funding
• 06/06/08 UCR Graduate Student Receives L.A. County Bilingual Directors Award
• 06/06/08 Six Ceremonies Planned for 54th UCR Commencement
• 06/05/08 Sikh Foundation Endows Chair at UCR
• 06/05/08 How Can E-commerce be Made More Successful? — Make it more Sensual, Study Says
• 06/04/08 Gluck Summer Camp for the Arts Taking Applications
• 06/03/08 Hot Technology Gets a Cool Down
• 06/02/08 UCR Officials Brief Governor Schwarzenegger on Medical School Plan
• 05/30/08 California’s Senate and Assembly Subcommittees on Education Delete Nearly $20 million in UC Riverside Construction Projects
  
• 05/29/08 UCR M.B.A. Student Wins Management Award
• 05/28/08 Large Release of Methane Could Cause Abrupt and Catastrophic Climate Change as Happened 635 Million Years Ago, UCR-led Study Warns
• 05/23/08 Students Take Action in Wake of Disaster Overseas
• 05/23/08 Nearly 5,000 Freshmen Have Declared a Commitment to UC Riverside in the Fall
• 05/23/08 One Stop Admission Day at UC Riverside Makes Applying Risk-Free
• 05/22/08 UCR Junior Wins Strauss Scholarship
• 05/22/08 "Islamism, Transformed?" Lecture on June 3
• 05/22/08 Making Up for an Expected 33,000 Shortfall in Teachers in the State Starts Now
  
  
• 05/22/08 Eaton Contest Winners Announced
• 05/21/08 Baseball’s Golden Anniversary Means a Day of Celebration
• 05/20/08 UCR to Host Immigration Roundtable
• 05/20/08 Oliver Johnson's Family Endows Scholarship
• 05/16/08 Chris Abani Wins Beyond Margins Award
• 05/16/08 UCR Student to Receive Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship
• 05/16/08 UCR Honors Five Alumni for Outstanding Achievements, Contributions
• 05/15/08 Timothy P. White Named UC Riverside Chancellor
• 05/14/08 UC Regents will meet Thursday to vote on new chancellor for UC Riverside
• 05/13/08 What to do on the Web When the Economy Goes South? — Web of Misery Holds the Answer
• 05/09/08 Eaton Science Fiction Conference Returns May 16-18
• 05/07/08 UCR Geneticist Plays Scientific Advisor to Movie about “Love, Adventure and ... Genetically Modified Rice”
• 05/07/08 UCR Engineering Students Combine Art with Taste in Competition
• 05/06/08 UCR French Film Series Ends with Academy Award Nominee
• 05/05/08 Susan Straight Wins Edgar Award
• 05/04/08 TechHorizons 2008 Seeks a Clear Path to a More Sustainable World Through Technological Advances
• 05/02/08 New Idea for How Anti-aging Products Delay Ripening of Fruit, Wilting of Flowers
• 04/30/08 Mediator to Discuss Peacemaking
• 04/28/08 Hybrid Cars Are Harder to Hear
• 04/28/08 UC Riverside Holds Spring Lecture Series as Part of Dialog About Race
• 04/25/08 Area Teachers Receive Recognition After Attending UCR Biliteracy Program
• 04/25/08 Scientists Call for More Access to Biotech Crop Data
• 04/23/08 UCR to Host Conference on Stricter Air Quality Standards for Southern California
• 04/21/08 Prof. David Kisailus Studies Engineering and Invention on the Half-shell
• 04/21/08 UC Riverside Offers Prospective Students an Advance Look at College Life
• 04/21/08 Two-day Event Celebrates Hip-Hop Culture
• 04/20/08 Civic Inequalities in High Growth Region
• 04/18/08 From Welfare to Ph.D., UCR Student’s Journey is Subject of Documentary
• 04/17/08 UCR Earth Week Activities Include “E-Cycle” Electronic-Waste Disposal for the Public
• 04/17/08 Encuentros/Encounters Conference Explores Music of the Philippines
• 04/16/08 UC Riverside Augments Emergency Readiness
• 04/15/08 UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center Holds Eco-Economy Summit April 25
• 04/10/08 UCR Cell Biologist Co-leads Joint International Conference on Wound Healing
• 04/09/08 Festival to Aid Fight Against Malaria
• 04/08/08 UC Riverside Hosts a Public Conversation on Diversity and Success
  
• 04/07/08 Student Film-makers Featured at Riverside Festival
• 04/07/08 Indian Scholar to Discuss Myths of Islam
• 04/03/08 Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate School of Education wins $250,000 Grant
  
  
• 04/03/08 Diversity Expert to Speak at UCR April 8
• 04/02/08 Seismologist's Project Uses Public's Laptops to Monitor and Predict Earthquakes
• 04/01/08 Out-of-this-World Speakers Highlight UCR Engineering Event
• 03/27/08 UC Regents Appoint a New President for the 10-campus System
• 03/27/08 Scholarship Named in Honor of UCR Plant Physiologist
• 03/26/08 Low Oxygen and Molybdenum Levels in Ancient Oceans Delayed Evolution of Life by Two Billion Years
• 03/25/08 Chris Abani Lecture April 15
• 03/25/08 Ford Foundation Awards $450,000 to RACE Project
• 03/20/08 Research Shows Earth's Earliest Animal Ecosystem Was Complex and Included Sexual Reproduction
• 03/19/08 Graduate Student Wins Top Fiction Award
• 03/18/08 Event Allows Kids to Play in Outer Space Without Even Leaving the Ground
• 03/18/08 Suicide More Likely Among Divorced Immigrants
• 03/17/08 Four Inland Schools to Attend Gluck Day of the Arts at UC Riverside April 4
  
• 03/14/08 For one UC Riverside student, the road to medical school runs through the Bourns College of Engineering
• 03/14/08 Research Team Led by UCR Entomologist Uses Tiny Wasp to Wipe Out Major Agricultural Pest in Tahiti
• 03/10/08 Tomás Rivera Conference Honors Painter, Poet
• 03/07/08 Students Organize Forum on Immigration for March 11
• 03/06/08 More Men Tackle Household Tasks
• 03/05/08 Cat-astrophe Averted
• 03/04/08 UCR Academic Senate Votes its Support of Medical School Proposal
• 03/04/08 Advanced Animation Equipment Gives UCR all the Right Moves
• 03/03/08 Health Disparities for African Americans is Topic of Talk
• 02/29/08 Conference to Focus on Access to Justice
• 02/28/08 Large Source of Nitrate, a Nutrient and Potential Water Contaminant, Found in Near-Surface Desert Soils
• 02/28/08 Students Organize Forum on the Iraq War for March 6
• 02/28/08 The Sallie Mae Fund's "Paying for College" Bus Tour to Visit Inland Empire March 3 and 4 to Educate Families About Planning and Paying for College
• 02/27/08 Education Collaborative Helps Young Women Leap into Mathematics and Science
• 02/20/08 UC Riverside Earns Awards for Student Programs
• 02/20/08 Three UCR Students Chosen by Clinton Global Initiative University
• 02/19/08 UCR’s Researchers Discover New Way to Store Information Via DNA
• 02/19/08 UCR-Organized Conference on California Fires Scheduled for March 4-5
• 02/19/08 Political Reform Advocate to Speak
• 02/13/08 UCR’s Science Education Summit Provides Forum for Concerned Citizens
• 02/12/08 UCR Students Give Others a Break this Spring
• 02/12/08 UCR Physicists to Coach High School Students on Mysteries of Particle Physics
• 02/08/08 Gandhi’s Grandson to Lecture on Nonviolence
• 02/08/08 Explosion of Ideas Rocks Riverside Schools Science Fair and Awards Feb. 12-14
• 02/07/08 State’s Voters Favor Early Primary
• 02/07/08 Economy, War Top Voter Concerns
• 02/06/08 Visiting Scholars Make Recommendations for Graduate School of Education
  
• 02/06/08 Nonviolent Peaceforce Co-founder to Speak
• 02/05/08 Author Joyce Carol Oates to Speak at UC Riverside
• 01/30/08 UCR Program Named for Goddess of Wisdom Helps Girls Make Smart Moves
• 01/30/08 Global Warming Remains Hot Topic at UCR
• 01/29/08 UC Riverside Engineering Professors, Graduate Students Examine What Keeps California WIRED to Innovation
• 01/29/08 UC Riverside and Universalist Unitarian Church Host Earth Policy Institute Founder
• 01/29/08 UC Antiquity Research Group Wins International Prize
• 01/28/08 UC Riverside’s Yushan Yan Makes Another Breakthrough on Corrosion-resistant Zeolite Coating
• 01/25/08 UCR Space Scientist Receives Unusual Grant from the Department of Energy
• 01/24/08 Forum Previews the Issues in Advance of Super Tuesday
• 01/24/08 UC Riverside Announces HEAT 2008 Festival
• 01/24/08 Faculty Experts Weigh in on Presidential Campaign
• 01/23/08 Sweeney Art Gallery's Profile Is on the Rise
• 01/23/08 UCR’s SEARCH program hosts “Autism Heroes” Author
• 01/22/08 Tuskegee Airmen to be Honored
• 01/18/08 Robert Rosenthal Honored by UC Regents
• 01/18/08 UC Riverside Launches Initiative to Reduce High School Dropout Rate in the Inland Region and Increase Numbers of Students Who Choose College
  
• 01/17/08 Plan for UCR Medical School is Making the Rounds
• 01/17/08 Predators Do More Than Kill Prey
• 01/16/08 UCR’s Expanded LGBT Resource Center Holds Open House Jan. 17
• 01/15/08 UC Riverside Students Create, Shoot and Premiere Action Movie
• 01/11/08 UCR Holds Life and Legacy: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King on Jan. 15
• 01/08/08 Experts Available for King Holiday
• 01/07/08 Second Life Offers Second Chance for Real Life Players
• 01/04/08 Nanotechnology to Get Bigger at UC Riverside With Two Symbolic Events
• 01/04/08 UCR Hosts Hip Hop Theatre Production Buck World One as Part of King Celebration
• 01/04/08 Event Gets the New Year off to a Running Start

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