2004 Archive
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2004 Headlines
- 12/22/04 Marcia McQuern Appointed UCR Spokeswoman
- 12/22/04 DNA Movement Linked to Formation of Antibody Genes
- 12/20/04 UC Riverside Chemist Elected to French Academy of Sciences
- 12/20/04 UC Riverside Professor Receives First Age-Reversal Prize
- 12/20/04 UC Riverside Honors The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 12/16/04 UC Riverside’s Graduate School of Education’s School Psychology Program Accredited by Prestigious Psychology Organization.
- 12/13/04 Researchers Control Chemical Reactions One Molecule at a Time
- 12/13/04
UC Riverside To Host Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research in 2005
- 12/07/04 Price Promotions, Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why?
- 12/07/04
UC Riverside Extension Earns $1.2 Million in Grants for Early Childhood Studies
- 12/06/04
UC Riverside Chancellor to Join Gov. Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver for Governor’s Conference in Long Beach
- 12/03/04 Cigarette Smoke A Culprit in Poor Healing and Increased Scarring
- 12/03/04 UC Riverside Sociologist To Speak at United Nations General Assembly
- 12/03/04 P2P Technology Still Going Strong Despite Lawsuits, Fines
- 11/30/04 Historian from UC Riverside Sings About Peace
- 11/24/04 Philosophy Conference on Language at UC Riverside Wednesday, Dec. 1
- 11/19/04
“Frontline” Segment ‘Is Wal-Mart Good For America?’ Includes UC Riverside Professor
- 11/17/04 UCR-led Effort to Aid Poor in Brazil Earns $400,000 Grant
- 11/17/04 Researchers Discover New Way to Boost Grain Crops’ Drought Tolerance
- 11/15/04 A $2 Million National Science Foundation Grant Brings Technology and Biology Together at UC Riverside
- 11/15/04 Strong, Yet Gentle, Acid Uncovered
- 11/12/04
Economic Development Director Earns “Spirit of the Entrepreneur” Award for Work at UC Riverside
- 11/11/04 UCR Art Historian and Veteran Traveler Discusses Pilgrimage to Holy Site
- 11/10/04 UCR Physicist Honored With Fellowship
- 11/10/04 UCR-related Progamming on UCTV
- 11/09/04
UC Riverside Space Science & Engineering Day
- 11/09/04
Graduate School of Management Professor Receives Award for Work That Stands the Test of Time
- 11/08/04 High-Predator Environment Has Unexpected Impact on Aging in Fish
- 11/08/04 Emeriti Faculty Member Honored
- 11/05/04 UCR Management School Dean Unveils Initiatives
- 11/05/04 UC Riverside Faculty Member to Keynote Women’s Health Symposium
- 11/05/04 New Faculty at the Bourns College of Engineering
- 11/04/04 Primate Researchers Gather Saturday at UC Riverside
- 11/04/04 UC Riverside Hosts Panel Discussion on Recent Immigration Raids
- 11/03/04 Opolis: UC Riverside Development Center Debuts New Journal
- 11/03/04 Election Experts at UC Riverside
- 11/02/04 Researchers Uncover How Infections Combat Plant Immune Responses
- 11/01/04 Five UCR Faculty Elected AAAS Fellows
- 10/29/04 UC Riverside’s Presley Center Recognized for Help with Youth Center
- 10/28/04 Service Wednesday for Founding UC Riverside Faculty Member
- 10/28/04 New Science Faculty at UC Riverside
- 10/28/04 UC Riverside Athletics Receives Highest NCAA Certification
- 10/25/04 KMEX • Univision 34 Will Broadcast Live from UCR Nov. 1
- 10/25/04 UC Riverside Visiting Scholar Dies
- 10/22/04
UC Riverside Extension Recognizes Jack Dangermond for Contributions to Geographic Information Systems Program
- 10/20/04 UCR Honored for Wireless Technology
- 10/20/04
UC Riverside Professor Organizes a Workshop on Vitamin D and Cancer Treatment and Prevention
- 10/19/04
UC Riverside Adds 31 Scholars in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
- 10/14/04 Nationally Lauded Poet, Essayist to Read Work at UC Riverside
- 10/13/04 Informational Briefing on West Nile Virus Set for Friday, Oct. 15
- 10/13/04 The University of California Lights Up Cable in the Inland Empire
- 10/11/04 UC Riverside Professor is Fulbright Scholar
- 10/07/04
UC Riverside Researchers Identify Key Plant Enzyme That Defends Against Multiple Infections
- 10/07/04 Presidential Politics Experts at UC Riverside
- 10/06/04 UC Riverside’s Village Bookstore Hosts Book Signing
- 10/04/04
Grant to UC Riverside Graduate School of Education Prepares More & Better Science Teachers
- 10/01/04 Professor John Ashe, Associate Dean, Dies Oct. 1
- 10/01/04 Author Series Starts Third Year With Book About Former UCR Chancellor
- 09/30/04 National Science Foundation Awards $2 Million Grant to UC Riverside
- 09/30/04 Earthquake Experts at UC Riverside
- 09/29/04
Web Site Launched to Help Fill More Than 50,000 Higher Education Jobs in the Next Five Years
- 09/27/04 Christena Schlundt, Founding Faculty at UC Riverside, Dies at 82
- 09/24/04 Summer Research Allows High Schoolers to Make a Big Difference in a Small Way
- 09/23/04 UC Riverside Wildfire Experts
- 09/22/04 UCR Geneticist’s Plant Sex Book Gets Paperback Edition
- 09/22/04 Presidential Politics Experts at UC Riverside
- 09/20/04 UC Riverside Opens New Academic Year With Convocation Ceremony
- 09/17/04 UC Riverside Historian Celebrates National Museum of the American Indian
- 09/16/04 UC Riverside Anthropologist Earns Kudos for Work in Coachella Valley
- 09/15/04 Chair in the Department of Political Science at UC Riverside Dies
- 09/13/04 UC Riverside Welcomes Student Residents During Move-In Day
- 09/09/04 UC Riverside Announces Senior Appointments for Campus in Palm Desert
- 09/09/04 UC Riverside Management Article Cited Among Top 50 of 2003
- 09/07/04 UC Riverside Names New Assistant Chief of Police.
- 08/30/04
Humans March to a Faster Genetic "Drummer" Than Other Primates, UC Riverside Research Says
- 08/26/04 Public Lecture Part of International Meeting at UC Riverside
- 08/24/04
UC Riverside Management School Dean to Give Keynote Address at International Data Analysis Symposium
- 08/24/04 Fund-Raising Dinner Raises $4,797 for UC Riverside Carillon
- 08/20/04 UC Riverside Experts on Aspects of the California Performance Review
- 08/17/04
UC Riverside Earns $1.5 Million National Science Foundation Grant to Examine How Engineered Crop Genes Stray
- 08/11/04 Back to School: Heavy Packs Endanger Kids’ Health, UCR Study Shows
- 08/11/04 Faculty Additions to UC Riverside’s Graduate School of Education
- 08/11/04 New $1 Million Grant to UC Riverside Strengthens Arts Outreach
- 08/09/04 UC Riverside Offers Transfer Students Admission
- 08/09/04
UC Riverside Researchers Will Work with Coachella Valley to Boost Employment, Analyze Health Dangers, and Provide Access to Technology
- 08/06/04 UC Riverside Names Vice Chancellor for Advancement
- 08/04/04
UC Riverside Researcher Takes Snapshots of the Movement of Molecules in a Billionth of a Second
- 08/02/04 UC Riverside Plant Pathologist Receives Major Award
- 08/02/04 UC Riverside Professor Looks Back -- and Forward -- to Athens Games
- 07/30/04 UC Riverside Honors Three for Excellence
- 07/30/04
UC Riverside Extension Dean is Finalist For "Leader of Distinction in Public Service"
- 07/30/04 UC Riverside Names Faculty Director of Barbara & Art Culver Center of the Arts
- 07/29/04 UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program Students Announced
- 07/28/04 UC Riverside Scientist Part of National Panel Releasing Report on Human Health Effects of Genetically Engineered Food
- 07/26/04 Political Convention Experts at UC Riverside
- 07/21/04 Middle Schoolers’ Summer Fitness, Math Programs Begin at UC Riverside
- 07/19/04 Ten Undergraduate Students do Plant Cell Research at UC Riverside
- 07/09/04 UC Riverside Researcher Unlocks Mosquito Reproduction Mechanism
- 07/08/04 UCR Scientists Show High Schoolers Big Possibilities in Smallest Worlds
- 07/05/04 Older and Wiser People May Be Key to Mankind’s Development
- 07/02/04 UC Riverside Libraries Celebrate a Gift from China
- 06/24/04 UC Riverside Chemistry Professor Receives Chancellor’s Award
- 06/22/04 UC Riverside Announces New Dean for The Graduate School of Education
- 06/18/04 Origin of West Indian Insect Eater Much Older Than Previously Thought
- 06/16/04 UC Riverside Scientists Take Part in Worldwide Physics Surprise
- 06/16/04 UC Riverside Extension Offers Summer Classes for Gifted Children
- 06/15/04 West Nile Virus Experts at UC Riverside
- 06/14/04 UC Riverside Outreach Program Earns $1.3 Million Federal Grant
- 06/11/04 UC Riverside Names New Vice Chancellor of Research
- 06/10/04 Two Professors Lauded as Mentors to UC Riverside Doctoral Candidates
- 06/10/04 UCR Professor Honored for Improving Information System Research Articles
- 06/09/04 UCR Extension Lunchtime Learning Lecture Examines Earthquake Prediction
- 06/08/04 UC Riverside Wins $3.5 Million Research Management Contract
- 06/08/04 UC Riverside Chemist Off to Incredible Start
- 06/07/04 Dual-Immersion Biliteracy Institute Graduates First Class of Teachers
- 06/03/04 UC Riverside Announces Commencement Ceremonies
- 06/02/04 UC Riverside's CE-CERT Needs One Last Vehicle for an Emissions Testing Program
- 06/02/04 National Youth Sports Program at UC Riverside
- 06/02/04 UC Riverside Researchers Discover New Way to Identify Cell Growth
- 06/01/04
Coachella Valley Educators Named UCR Parents Association Parents of the Year
- 06/01/04 UC Riverside Professor Named National Humanities Fellow
- 05/27/04
UC Riverside Professor to Spend Year with U.S. State Department
- 05/27/04 UC Day in Sacramento Celebrates UC Riverside Undergraduates’ Research
- 05/26/04 Student Book Collection Competition Winners Announced
- 05/24/04 Graduate Research Awards Recipients Named
- 05/24/04
Doctors Prescribe Painkillers Less Often to African-Americans, Latinos, UC Riverside Study Indicates
- 05/21/04 UC Riverside’s Graduate School of Education Hosts Education Forum
- 05/21/04
Speaker to Discuss the Politics of Immigration, Latina Reproduction And Fertility
- 05/21/04 Speaker to Examine Gender, Nation And Globalization In Bollywood
- 05/21/04 UC Riverside Lecture Series Focuses on Debate Between Evolution and Creationism
- 05/20/04 UC Riverside MBA Student Receives Management Award
- 05/20/04 UC Riverside Works with Golf Industry To Solve Water and Land Issues
- 05/19/04 Malcolm X Legacy Celebrated at UC Riverside May 21
- 05/19/04
Scholars Gather at UC Riverside to Honor Work, Legacy of Sterling Stuckey
- 05/18/04 UC RIVERSIDE ADOPTS COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW MODEL
- 05/18/04 Insect Scientists, Chinese Literature Professor Win Kudos at UC Riverside
- 05/17/04
Local Elementary Students Practice Their Arts Skills at UC Riverside’s Gluck Day of the Arts, May 19
- 05/13/04 Native American Nations, Sovereignty and Gaming Topics of Desert Lecture
- 05/12/04 UC Riverside’s Sixth Annual "Primavera in the Gardens" Fund-Raiser Set for Sunday, May 16
- 05/11/04 Gap Inc., Chief Financial Officer Visits UC Riverside
- 05/11/04 Regular Class Schedule for UCR Students on May 11
- 05/10/04 Gas Main Damaged During Freeway Construction
- 05/09/04 UC Riverside Professor Named Guggenheim Fellow
- 05/07/04 UC Riverside Hosts Noted “Pentagon Papers” Figure
- 05/06/04 President Bush Recognizes UC Riverside’s CONNECT Mentoring Program
- 05/06/04 UC Riverside Libraries Host Final Author Series Event for the Year
- 05/05/04 UC Riverside’s Village Bookstore Hosts Book Signing
- 05/05/04 UC Riverside Staff Assembly Group Honors Staff Who Make a Difference
- 05/03/04
UC Riverside Researchers Develop Low-Carb Corn With Enhanced Protein and Oil
- 04/30/04 Construction Crews Place Final Steel Beam on UCR’s Palm Desert Campus
- 04/30/04 UC Riverside Offers Cinco de Mayo Events
- 04/30/04 Founding UC Riverside Faculty Member Honored With Permanent Memorial
- 04/29/04 UC Riverside to Host Third Annual Science Event for Girl Scouts
- 04/26/04 Fire Damages UC Riverside Residence Hall Cafeteria
- 04/26/04 Sondheim Musical "Into the Woods" Set for May 7th Opening
- 04/23/04 UC Riverside “Red Rhythms” Conference Set for May 5, 6, 7
- 04/23/04 UC Riverside Department of Theatre Builds Digital Production Archive
- 04/22/04 MESA Invites Middle and High School Students for Regional at UC Riverside
- 04/21/04 Graduate Student in Music Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
- 04/21/04 UC Riverside Professor Honored for Work on Memory and Learning Disabilities
- 04/21/04 UC Riverside Announces Fall 2004 Freshman Admissions Data
- 04/21/04 UC Riverside’s Dean of Engineering Accepts Position at Buffalo
- 04/20/04 African Diaspora Lecture Series at UC Riverside Ends with Afro-Brazilian History
- 04/19/04
One of the World’s Leading Experts in Vitamin D Research Honored by Fellow Scientists
- 04/19/04 UC Riverside Researchers Improve Drought Tolerance in Plants
- 04/19/04 UC Riverside Botanist Receives Honorary Degree From University of Morelos, Mexico
- 04/16/04
In an Era of Enrollment Caps, UC Riverside Courts Prospective Students April 17 and 24
- 04/15/04 Second Paper on “Deep Earthquakes” Appears in Nature
- 04/15/04 UCR Botanist Named to National Academies of Science Board
- 04/13/04 UC Riverside Seeks Volunteers for its Citrus Tasting Booth, One of the Most Popular Attractions at the Riverside Orange Blossom Festival
- 04/12/04 Middle School Programs This Summer at UC Riverside
- 04/12/04
“The Statistical Consulting Collaboratory” at UC Riverside Is All About The Numbers
- 04/09/04 UC Riverside Scholar Edits New Book on Human Rights
- 04/08/04 UC Riverside Physicist Earns Humboldt Prize
- 04/08/04 Clean Air Excellence Awards Recognize James Lents of UC Riverside
- 04/07/04 Poetry of Mortality and Divinity Next in UC Riverside Libraries Author Series
- 04/06/04 UC Riverside Scientist Receives State Air Quality Award
- 04/05/04 UCR Study Says Second-Hand Smoke Affects Healing
- 04/05/04 Sylvia Plath Subject of Next Reading at UC Riverside
- 04/01/04 Hip Hop and Theatre Mix During Workshops, Performances at UC Riverside April 6 through 9
- 04/01/04 UC Riverside Students to Wrestle with International Issues at United Nations
- 03/31/04 Minerals Are Key To Earthquakes Deep in the Earth
- 03/31/04 Professor Joel Martin Will Serve as Interim Dean of UCR's College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
- 03/30/04 UC Riverside Researchers Make History Channel
- 03/29/04
UC Riverside’s Radio Aztlán Music Festival Loaded With Red-Hot Acts
- 03/25/04 Medical School Graduates Learn Where Their Residencies Will Be
- 03/25/04
UCR’s Community Digital Initiative Launches After-School Computer Workshops
- 03/23/04
UC Riverside Students Taking Off for Florida Conference to Showcase "Eastside Story," Cited as National Model for Service Learning
- 03/19/04
UCR Dancesport Team Hosts First Competition
- 03/18/04 UC Riverside to Dedicate Amy S. Harrison Field During Double Header
- 03/17/04 Will Silicon Valley Make Way for Nanotube Valley?
- 03/17/04 UCR Libraries Announce Student Book Collection Competition
- 03/15/04 UCR Continuing Medical Education Program Includes Innovative New Offerings
- 03/15/04 UC Riverside Fund Assists Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students
- 03/12/04 UCR Congratulates Winners of the Riverside Schools Science and Engineering Fair
- 03/11/04 State Grant Supports UC Riverside Financial Aid and Academic Outreach
- 03/09/04 UCR Hosts Top projects at Riverside Unified’s Science & Engineering Fair
- 03/05/04 Low-Calorie Diet’s Effects on Longevity Next in UC Riverside Library Series
- 03/04/04 Novelist to Offer Regents’ Lecture at UC Riverside
- 03/03/04 New Assistant Chancellor Post Filled
- 02/27/04 MESA Program Brings Middle & High School Students to UC Riverside
- 02/27/04 Most 2004 Commencement Ceremonies to Remain Outdoors
- 02/26/04 UC Riverside To Host Public Lecture on Chinese Americans
- 02/26/04
UC Riverside Graduate Student Along on Antarctica Trip That Resulted in New Dinosaur Find
- 02/20/04 Students to Examine Gender Related Research at UC Riverside
- 02/17/04 Next in Libraries’ Author Series, UC Riverside Botanist Asks: Are Genetically Modified Foods Hazardous?
- 02/13/04
Guest Carillonneur Margo Halsted to Play March 7 in Honor of Founding Faculty Member William H. Reynolds
- 02/11/04 Several Events Scheduled to Commemorate Black History
- 02/09/04 Ford Foundation Grant Will Fund UC Riverside “Red Rhythms” Conference in May
- 02/09/04 UC Riverside Celebrates V-DAY 2004
- 02/06/04 UC Riverside Announces Appointment of New Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
- 02/04/04 UC Riverside Partnership with University of Veracruz, Mexico, Takes Shape
- 02/04/04 UC Riverside Workshops Studied the Smallest of the Small
- 01/28/04 Event Marks Start of UCR Palm Desert Campus Construction
- 01/28/04 UC Riverside Philosopher Invited to Join International Community of Scholars Influential in Policies on Human Health
- 01/28/04 UC Riverside Hosts 27th Annual Writers Week Feb. 3 through 7
- 01/27/04 Construction of the UCR Palm Desert Campus Gets Underway
- 01/27/04
Discussion at UC Riverside Planetary Physics Conference Will Include Debate About Voyager 1
- 01/26/04
UC RIVERSIDE ANNOUNCES 50th ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN
- 01/20/04 UC Riverside Congratulates Dean O’Brien on UCLA Appointment
- 01/15/04
Former UC Riverside Staffer to Read Stories of India at the Libraries' Author Series
- 01/15/04 UC Riverside Set to Mark 50th Anniversary
- 01/13/04
Transgenic Mosquitoes are Less Fertile Than Their Counterparts in Nature
- 01/12/04
UC Riverside Among Three Colleges Selected to Pilot New Program to Fight Drunk Driving Among Young People
- 01/08/04 UC Riverside Professor Awarded 2004 NEA Literature Fellowship
- 01/07/04
African Influences on Latin America is Topic of Next UC Riverside African Diaspora Lecture
- 01/07/04 Award-Winning Entertainment Available to UC Riverside Students
- 01/06/04 UC Riverside Lecture Series Presents Ancient Maya and the Rain Forest, Implications for Modern Conservation
- 01/06/04
UC Riverside Holds Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Wednesday, Jan. 14th


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