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• Economic Adviser to Botswana to Lecture
  (November 24, 2009) Stephen R. Lewis Jr., president emeritus of Carleton College and an economist who helped shape the government of Botswana, will speak at UC Riverside on Friday, Dec. 4, at 4:10 p.m.
• UC Riverside's Yushan Yan Selected for ARPA-E Grant for Next-Generation Fuel Cell Research
  (November 24, 2009) UC Riverside Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Yushan Yan's proposal "Quanternary Phosphonium-based Hydroxide Exchange Membranes" is one of 37 selected for negotiations for the U.S. Department of Energy's newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awards for transformative energy research projects.
• Blacher Named Co-chair of Autism Regional Taskforce
  (November 24, 2009) Jan Blacher, professor of education and founding director of UCR’s SEARCH autism resource center has been named co-chair of the Inland Empire Autism Regional Taskforce of the California Senate Select Committee on Autism and Related Disorders.
• UCR Sociologist Featured in Documentary Film About Rebuilding Sierra Leone
  (November 24, 2009) “Pride of Lions,” an award-winning documentary film about the efforts by Sierra Leoneans to rebuild their country after a brutal civil war, will be shown on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 6:30 p.m. in Humanities 1501.
• UC Riverside Botanist Adds Credibility to Plants in James Cameron’s “Avatar”
  (November 24, 2009) When film director James Cameron needed to build an alien botanical world for "Avatar," he asked botanist Jodie Holt for guidance.

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