UCR Newsroom

2007 Headlines

• 12/20/07 Library Acquires 14,000 Thai Books
• 12/20/07 The Library of Congress in Your Wrist Watch?
• 12/20/07 UC Riverside Historian Featured on PBS Documentary on Andrew Jackson
• 12/20/07 UC Riverside Physicists Contribute to International State-of-the-art Detector Installed in Switzerland
• 12/17/07 Eaton Science Fiction Conference Scheduled May 16-18, 2008
• 12/14/07 Musical Traditions of Southern California Indians is Topic of Talk Jan. 4
• 12/13/07 UCR Researcher Awarded $2.1 Million Stem Cell Grant to Study Alzheimer’s Disease
• 12/13/07 Alcohol Outlet Density Linked to Gang Violence
• 12/10/07 Chemicals Used as Fire Retardants Could Be Harmful, UCR Researchers Say
• 12/07/07 Nanotube-producing Bacteria Show Manufacturing Promise
• 12/07/07 Gene E. Robinson, Scholar of Behavior in Social Insects, to Speak at UCR
• 12/05/07 Public radio station KPCC Comes to UC Riverside to Look at Student Life in the 21st Century
• 12/03/07 Adolescent Bullies Turning up on the Internet
• 12/03/07 UC Riverside Professor Honored by the Modern Language Association
• 11/30/07 UCR Copernicus Project Provides Opportunity for Students to Teach Students
• 11/30/07 UCR To Host Web Cast on Scholarship Success
• 11/30/07 UCR Invites a Visiting Committee to Provide Expert Assessment of Diversity Issues at the Graduate School of Education
• 11/28/07 Microbes in Ancient Ice Could Explain How Life Adapts to Harsh Environments
• 11/27/07 Sultans of Satire Comedy Group to Perform Dec. 2
• 11/27/07 Computer Simulation by UCR Physicist Predicts Voyager 2 Spacecraft Will Reach Major Milestone in Space in Late 2007 or Early 2008
• 11/26/07 Activist to Discuss Nonviolence Strategies
• 11/21/07 Retired Judge Receives Alumni Appointment to UC Board of Regents
• 11/19/07 High School Students to Visit Campus for Gluck Day of the Arts
• 11/16/07 It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you run the maze
• 11/15/07 UC Board of Regents Given Update on UCR Medical School Planning
• 11/14/07 Henry Snyder Wins National Humanities Medal
• 11/13/07 UC Riverside Holds Diversity Summit Nov. 19
• 11/13/07 New Book by UCR Biologist Discusses Twelve Diseases That Impacted Humanity
• 11/09/07 Exhibit Honors History of Riverside County Libraries
• 11/08/07 Novelist Susan Straight Wins National Honor
• 11/06/07 UCR’s Business School Dean to Speak at CUC Meeting
• 11/06/07 UCR Researchers Awarded Nearly $1.7 Million to Develop Improved Cowpea Varieties
• 11/05/07 UCR Awards Contract for Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts
• 11/02/07 UCR Libraries Offer Food for Thought
• 11/02/07 Gandhi’s Legacy is Topic of Speaker Series
• 11/01/07 UCR’s A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management Receives $3.1 Million Gift
• 10/30/07 Enrollment Up at UC Riverside
• 10/30/07 Graduate’s Script Wins Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award
• 10/26/07 Wow! That's Engineering!
• 10/25/07 Nine UCR Faculty Members Recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 10/25/07 Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars around Quasar
• 10/25/07 UC Takes Sierra Magazine’s No. 4 Spot in Top 10 “Coolest Schools”
• 10/25/07 Blakely Center Wins $154,000 Grant
• 10/23/07 Attorney to Speak on Local Government Role in Climate Change
• 10/22/07 Weather, Winds, Kick up Wildfires
• 10/22/07 UCR’s Final Planning for a Medical School Shifts into High Gear
• 10/18/07 Tsinghua University ceremony strengthens partnership
• 10/18/07 Building Paper Bridges, Petting Cockroaches Highlight UCR Student/Parent Event
• 10/17/07 Department of Defense Approves $1.7 million to Measure the Impacts of Controlled Burns
• 10/17/07 Environmental Policy Lecture to Air
• 10/17/07 UC Riverside Research Leads to Self-Improving Chips with Speed ‘Warping’
• 10/16/07 Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture to Feature Famine Researcher
• 10/16/07 UCR Partners with Chinese University to Address China’s Environmental Problems
• 10/15/07 UC Riverside holds Preview Day Oct. 27
• 10/10/07 UCR’s Business School Makes the Entrepreneur Magazine/Princeton Review Top 25
• 10/09/07 University of California, Riverside Libraries Designated as U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository
• 10/08/07 Seminar to Focus on Inland Civic Engagement
• 10/08/07 UCR Autism Expert to Address Citizens University Committee
• 10/08/07 Why Do Males and Females Frequently Differ in Body Size and Structure?
• 10/05/07 Not Much Anonymity for Illegal File-Sharers
• 10/04/07 Kevin Starr to Speak at Digital Newspaper Conference
• 10/03/07 NEH Official to Promote “We the People” Initiative
• 10/03/07 Environmental Policy Expert to Lecture at UCR on Oct. 15
• 10/01/07 Newly Revised Book on Weeds and Invasive Plants Discusses How They Can Be Managed Using Ecological Approaches
• 09/27/07 Researchers Detect Hint of Oxygen 50 to 100 Million Years Earlier Than First Believed
• 09/27/07 UCR’s ALPHA Center Brings Teachers into the Annual STEP Conference at the Riverside Convention Center
• 09/26/07 Plants Can Be Used to Study How and Why People Respond Differently to Drugs
• 09/25/07 National Science Foundation Grants $561,000 to New Mentoring Program in Engineering
• 09/24/07 UC Riverside Biologist Receives Prestigious MacArthur Fellowship
• 09/24/07 Retired Chancellor Ivan Hinderaker Dies
• 09/21/07 Countdown to Sputnik’s 50th Anniversary
• 09/19/07 Acting Dean for UCR Extension Named
• 09/18/07 Jonathan Green Named UCR/ARTSblock Executive Director
• 09/16/07 UCR Psychology Professor Wins Award
• 09/14/07 Carlos Cortés to Perform One-Man Play
• 09/14/07 Sheet of Carbon Atoms Acts Like a Billiard Table, Physicists Find
• 09/12/07 Molecules of Positronium Observed in the Laboratory for the First Time
• 09/10/07 UCTV to Air Concert of Student Works
• 09/06/07 UCR Palm Desert Library Offers Research Services
• 09/06/07 UCR Plant Cell Biologist to Study How Plant Stem-Cells Maintain and Change Their Identity
• 09/05/07 UCR Alum Advises Policy-research Group
• 09/04/07 UC Riverside Climbs to 15th on the Washington Monthly Ranking
• 09/04/07 Kevin Starr to Speak at Digital Newspaper Conference
• 09/04/07 UCR Engineers to Develop New Tool to Measure How Environmental Exposures Affect Health
• 09/03/07 Indian Casinos Boost Local Economies
• 08/29/07 UCR Hydrologist to Study Ecological Impact of Climate Change on Mountain Lakes
• 08/23/07 Technology Transfer Conference to Convene Oct. 24-26
• 08/22/07 UCR Hosts Meeting on Turfgrass Water Conservation
• 08/16/07 Breaking Up with Your Doctor Is Hard to Do
• 08/15/07 Seven Scholars with Expertise in the Middle East and Islam Join UCR
• 08/13/07 UCR Experts Weigh In On Aftermath of Sept. 11
• 08/10/07 Clifford Trafzer Named Costo Chair
• 08/10/07 Summer research programs attract bright, motivated undergraduate students to UCR
• 08/09/07 UCR Department Expands Offerings in World Music and Technology
• 08/08/07 UCR is Part of Statewide Conversation on Health Care
• 08/01/07 UC Riverside to Host International Conference on Chemistry of a Neglected Group of Chemical Elements
• 07/31/07 UCR Music, Dance Concerts to Air on UCTV
• 07/31/07 Measuring Pollution from Aircraft Engines
• 07/27/07 Summer Science Programs Sizzle at UC Riverside
• 07/27/07 Rare Example of Darwinism Seen in Action
• 07/25/07 Community Invited to Meet Cast of "Adopt a Sailor" on Thursday, Aug. 2
  
• 07/24/07 UCR Graduate Student Writes Popular Parrot-Training Book
• 07/24/07 Rising Health Care Costs are Forcing Hospitals to Give Doctors Fewer Choices
• 07/20/07 Growth Affecting Inland Political and Civic Engagement
• 07/20/07 Documentary Shows Struggles of Non-traditional Community College Students
• 07/19/07 Current and Former Faculty Featured in July 28 Poetry Reading
• 07/13/07 New Grants Fuel Excellent Research on Fuels
• 07/13/07 Floyd Landis, Embroiled 2006 Tour de France Winner, to Speak, Sign Book at UCR
• 07/12/07 UC Riverside Proposes Susan Harlow be Named Acting Vice Chancellor for Advancement
• 07/11/07 History Professor Calls Lady Bird Johnson One of the Most Successful First Ladies
• 07/10/07 UC Riverside’s CE-CERT and France’s Dotmobil Will Discover if a Vehicle Needs a Driver
• 07/10/07 “Minds for Design” Offers Summer Learning at UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering
• 07/03/07 A Simple Magnet Can Control the Color of a Liquid, Making New Technologies Possible, UCR Nanotechnologists Report
• 06/26/07 UC Riverside Reacts Favorably to News of Acting Chancellor
• 06/25/07 UCR Hosts Exhibition of UC System Artists
• 06/25/07 UCR Faculty Anticipate July Release of Harry Potter Novel and Movie
• 06/22/07 Leisure-reading Collection to Debut at UCR Libraries
• 06/22/07 UC Riverside Vice Chancellor for Advancement to go to University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• 06/21/07 UC Regents Approve A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management Dean
• 06/20/07 Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? — To Escape Deadly Exotic Disease
• 06/18/07 Reconstructing the Biology of Extinct Species: A New Approach
• 06/18/07 Friends and Family Attend Rescheduled Commencement Ceremony
• 06/18/07 Parents, Graduates in Need of Answers
• 06/16/07 Threat Suspect Arrested
• 06/15/07 UC Riverside Increases Security for Weekend Commencement Ceremonies
• 06/12/07 UCR Biologists Unravel the Genetic Secrets of Black Widow Spider Silk
• 06/12/07 Longtime UCR Psychology Professor Recognized for Student Mentorship
• 06/08/07 UCR and City Join Forces to Help Students and Residents Dispose of Bulky Trash
• 06/08/07 UCR Commencement Speaker Fled Rwanda Genocide
• 06/08/07 UC Riverside is Proof that Diversity is No Barrier to Excellence
• 06/08/07 UC Riverside Fund-Raising Efforts Receive National Recognition
• 06/07/07 Sickest Patients Less Likely to Follow Doctors' Orders, UCR Study Finds
• 06/06/07 UCR Sociology Professor Inspires Students to Dream Big
• 06/06/07 UCR's Donald Siegel Co-authors Book on Entrepreneurship
• 06/05/07 UCR Awarded Stem Cell Research Facility Grant
• 06/04/07 Six Ceremonies Planned for 53rd UCR Commencement
• 06/04/07 Two UCR Students Win Prestigious Fellowships for Graduate Study
• 06/04/07 UCR Biologist Receives $1.75 Million Grant to Study Plant-Threatening Bacteria
• 06/04/07 UCR Student is Recipient of Ray M. Greenly Scholarship
• 05/31/07 UCR Physicist Demonstrates How Light Can Be Used to Remotely Operate Micromachines
• 05/29/07 Two UCR Earth Scientists Honored with U.S. Geological Survey’s Distinguished Service Awards
• 05/24/07 Susan Straight Short Story Wins O. Henry Prize
• 05/22/07 UCR Responds to Fires at Residence Hall with "Fire Watch" and a Criminal Investigation
• 05/22/07 Middle and High School Students Get a Boost from Free UCR Summer Programs
• 05/21/07 UCR Student to Receive Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship
• 05/21/07 Students at Residence Hall Asked to Evacuate Once More
• 05/18/07 UCR to Fete Renowned Entomologist’s 50 Years of Service
• 05/18/07 New Book Offers Comprehensive Coverage of Santa Ana River Flora
• 05/17/07 New Technology Enables Astronomers to Detect Two Supermassive Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies
• 05/17/07 UC President’s Focus to be on Partnerships in the Inland Empire
• 05/17/07 UCR/CMP Launches Podcast of Inland Empire Arts and Culture June 1
• 05/17/07 UCR M.B.A. Student Wins Management Award
• 05/16/07 UC Riverside Offers One Stop Admission Day Saturday, June 2
• 05/16/07 UCR Professor Discusses Hip-hop Intellectuals
• 05/15/07 Artist Judy Field Baker Donates 23 Original Works to Sweeney Art Gallery
• 05/14/07 "Policy Matters" Examines a Decade of Living Wage Laws
• 05/10/07 New Petroleum-Degrading Bacteria Found at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
• 05/09/07 Medical School Planning Continues at UCR
• 05/09/07 Workshop Seeks to Bring More Science into Habitat Conservation Planning
• 05/07/07 UC Riverside Chancellor France A. Córdova Named Purdue University President
• 05/07/07 UCR Conference looks at Today’s and Tomorrow’s Commercial Technology
• 05/04/07 Nobel Laureate to Speak at UCR on Friday, May 11
• 05/02/07 Jim Wooldridge to be Introduced Thursday as New UC Riverside Men's Basketball Coach
• 05/02/07 UCR Hosts UC MEXUS Conference May 9
• 05/01/07 Canned Beans, Sardines and Campus Scene Earn Win for UCR Team
• 05/01/07 UCR SEARCH Program Provides Families Guidance Through Maze of Autism Issues
• 04/27/07 UC Riverside Buys University House at Highlander Ridge
• 04/27/07 20th Annual Tomás Rivera Conference Moves to UCR's Palm Desert Graduate Center
  
• 04/24/07 Donald Trump Tells University of California, Riverside Graduate "You're Hired"
• 04/23/07 UCR/CMP Unveils New Exhibits
• 04/23/07 UCR Religious Studies Professor Wins $30,000 NEH Grant
• 04/23/07 UCR Researchers Available for Media Interviews on Malaria
• 04/22/07 UC Riverside Engineering Students to Compete in “Canstruction” fundraiser for the Riverside Art Museum
• 04/20/07 UCR Mathematics Education Innovator Receives Honor from Riverside County
  
  
• 04/19/07 UCR Chemists Identify Organic Molecules That Mimic Metals
• 04/19/07 Gluck Summer Camp for the Arts Sign-ups Start
• 04/18/07 UC Riverside Students will "Take Back the Night" Thursday at the Bell Tower
• 04/18/07 New Orleans Katrina Czar to Address Global Warming
• 04/18/07 UCR's Blakely Center Wins $1.17 Million Grant
• 04/18/07 UCR Scholars to Discuss Politics of Natural Resource Management
• 04/17/07 Anthropologists Tackle Racism in National Race Project
• 04/17/07 It Simply Adds up: Attending UCR's Mathematics Academy is Big Plus for Teachers
  
  
• 04/17/07 Grand Finale of 100th Anniversary Celebration of UCR’s Citrus Research Center/Agricultural Experiment Station Scheduled for April 21
• 04/12/07 UC Riverside Psychology Professor’s Paper to Appear in ‘Psychological Science’
  
• 04/11/07 UC Riverside Launches Survey Research Center
• 04/11/07 UCR Alumni Association to Present Annual Awards for Excellence
• 04/11/07 UCR Chancellor Córdova Receives Honor from California Institute of Technology
• 04/10/07 UC Riverside Poet Wins Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
• 04/10/07 UCR Chemist Recognized by the American Chemical Society
• 04/09/07 UCR Seminar Addresses the Politics of Natural Resource Management April 24
• 04/09/07 Noted Science Fiction Author to Speak at UCR on April 25
• 04/06/07 UCR Faculty Plan Discussion of Transnational Studies April 12
• 04/05/07 Disease Can Be Our Ally, Not Just Our Enemy, Says New Book by UCR Evolutionary Biologist
• 04/03/07 Tribute to Stan Rice, poet and artist, set for April 10 at UCR Palm Desert
• 04/02/07 No Child Left Behind Receives Failing Grade from Teachers in UCR Study
  
• 04/02/07 U.S. Historical Statistics Volumes Win Multiple Honors
• 03/28/07 Digital Studio Educator Joins UCR/CMP
• 03/28/07 UCR Professor's Novella Named a Best Book for Teens
• 03/27/07 Four Moreno Valley Schools to Attend Gluck Day of the Arts at UC Riverside April 13
• 03/23/07 UCR Computer Science Professors are Part of Defense Research Initiative
• 03/22/07 UCR Hires Family Medicine Scholar as Vice Provost for Health Affairs
• 03/22/07 Eminent Neurologist to Present a Vision for UCR’s Health Sciences Research Institute
• 03/19/07 UCR Professor Bets Math Can Help Fight Terrorists
• 03/16/07 UCR Received $960,000 Grant for Fellowships for Minority Students
• 03/16/07 UCR Experts Comment on Developments in the U.S. Attorney Firings
• 03/14/07 UCR Holds Festival of World Music Saturday at University Theatre
• 03/13/07 Noted Immunologist to Present a Vision for UCR’s Health Sciences Research Institute
• 03/13/07 Proponent of Women in Science to Speak at UC Riverside
• 03/12/07 Exploring the Secrets of Marine Life in Baja California
• 03/09/07 Susan Straight Nominated for Los Angeles Times Book Prize
• 03/06/07 “Writers in the Schools” Under Way in Coachella Valley High Schools
  
• 03/06/07 Opinionated People Wanted for Iraq War Teach-In
• 03/06/07 UC Approves UCR’s Graduate Bioengineering Program
• 03/04/07 Renowned Immunologist to Present a Vision for UCR’s Health Sciences Research Institute
• 03/02/07 Rally for Highlander Basketball Teams on Tuesday at UCR Bell Tower
• 03/01/07 College-Bound Students Learn About Leadership at Weekend Conference
  
  
• 03/01/07 UCR to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the State’s Beginning Teacher and Teacher Intern Programs
• 02/28/07 Down with Physics: Giant Compact Muon Solenoid Magnet Goes Underground at World's Largest Particle Physics Laboratory
• 02/28/07 UC Riverside Explores Diversity’s Strength
• 02/28/07 Talented Film Students Offer Short Films at University Village Cinema
• 02/28/07 State Teachers' Union President Discusses Hot Topics in Education at UC Riverside
• 02/27/07 French Film Series Scheduled at University Village Cinemas
• 02/23/07 UCR's California Center for Native Nations to Present Lecture Monday
• 02/22/07 Penguin Love: It’s a Hot Topic
• 02/21/07 UCR Scientists Receive Funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
• 02/20/07 UCR Homecoming Brings a C Change
• 02/15/07 UC Riverside Exports Performances to the Riverside Public Library
• 02/14/07 An Evening with Author John Rechy at UCR Palm Desert
• 02/13/07 Riverside Mayor Honors Citrus Experiment Station Centennial
• 02/13/07 Science Education is the Hot Topic at UCR Summit
• 02/12/07 UCR Scientist Develops Nano-scale Switch Design for Computers
• 02/09/07 Scholars to Gather at Conference on the Culture of Southeast Asia
• 02/07/07 Bioengineering Professor to Give 2007 Noel Keen Special Lecture at UC Riverside
• 02/06/07 Riverside Schools Science and Engineering Fair Projects on Display at UCR
• 02/05/07 UCR Chemist Receives National Science Foundation’s Special Creativity Award
• 02/02/07 UC Riverside Officials Inaugurate Supercomputer
• 02/02/07 UC Riverside Celebrates the Awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Tuskegee Airmen
• 02/01/07 Christopher Rice Makes Writers Week Appearance at UCR Palm Desert
  
• 01/31/07 UC Riverside Will Notify Applicants Feb. 1
• 01/29/07 Keeping an Open Mind is Critical for Good Legislation
• 01/29/07 Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Headlines UCR’s 30th Writers Week Feb. 1 through 14
• 01/25/07 Scholars from UCLA and UC Berkeley to speak Feb. 5 as part of UC MEXUS Series
• 01/23/07 UC Riverside Faculty Experts on the President’s State of the Union Speech Topics
• 01/22/07 Valentine's Day Centennial Gala Planned for Citrus Experiment Station
• 01/22/07 UCR Involved in Discovery of Diabetes Fighting Molecule
• 01/18/07 Walking Molecule Now Carries Packages
• 01/17/07 UC Riverside Researchers Have the Cold Facts About the Freeze of 2007
• 01/13/07 Revitalizing the Suburbs is Topic of UC Riverside Conference Jan. 25
• 01/12/07 The Life and Legacy: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King
  
  
• 01/12/07 National Science Foundation Supports UCR
  Study of Polar Lake Life Forms
  
• 01/11/07 UCR Ecotoxicologist Appointed to National Scientific Panel
• 01/10/07 UC Riverside to Hear from Nobel Laureate who Launched the Nanoscience Revolution
  
• 01/10/07 UCR's Program in Soil Science Earns Top Rank
• 01/09/07 Research on Native Nations to be Easier Because of Materials Donated to UC Riverside Libraries Special Collections
• 01/09/07 UC Riverside Professor’s Book “Toxic Torts” is Subject of 14th Annual Philosophy Conference at UC Riverside
• 01/08/07 UCR Researchers Examine How Some Invasive Plants Gain a Foothold
• 01/05/07 UC Riverside Research Team Discovers that Insulin Heals Wounds
• 01/03/07 UC MEXUS continues its series of seminars on topics relevant to Mexico and California

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