2002 Archive
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2002 Headlines

- 12/24/02 Creative cancer education program captures national honor
- 12/20/02 UC Riverside study suggests placentas can evolve in 750,000 years or less
- 12/19/02
UC Riverside Philosophy Professor Contends The Media Influences How We Recall Our Own Dreams
- 12/16/02 Dual-Language Teacher Training Institute Under Development at UC Riverside
- 12/13/02 UC Riverside entomologists report bee-dancing brings more food to honeybee colonies
- 12/11/02
"Digital Posse" at the University of California, Riverside Means Classes in Computer Games, Music and Animation
- 12/10/02
New center for nanoscale innovation transfers knowledge from universities to industry
- 12/01/02 2,000 brown recluse spiders in a Kansas home and no bites, UC Riverside study notes
- 11/26/02 UC Riverside's Professor Robert Graham elected Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America
- 11/25/02 University of California, Riverside Director Wins National "Scholar Award"
- 11/22/02 UC Riverside awards new scholarships in computer science, engineering, and mathematics
- 11/21/02 UC Riverside scientists to discuss work of 2002 Nobel Prize research in physics and chemistry
- 11/21/02
UC Riverside Receives Federal “Talent Search” Grant to Expand Opportunities
To Attend College for Low-Income Students
- 11/21/02 UC Riverside Forecasting Center director predicts possibility of even lower mortgage interest rates in 2003
- 11/14/02 UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society Hosts Life-Long Social Activist Abe Osheroff
- 11/08/02 UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society Hosts Series on the African Diaspora
- 11/08/02 How will Brazil's new president affect second-largest economy in North America?
- 11/07/02 UC Riverside Invites Potential Graduate Students To Campus Preview Day
- 11/06/02 UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society Hosts Southern California Hip Hop Theater Festival
- 10/30/02 UC Riverside's Guy Bertrand elected to the Academia Europaea
- 10/29/02
Sally Ride Science Club™ Encourages Girls To Reach For The Stars
At Inland Empire Science Festival
- 10/28/02 UC Riverside's Arturo Gómez-Pompa receives Honorary Researcher Award and the Gold Medal Merit Award
- 10/25/02 “Get In On The Ground Floor" For New UC Riverside Culver Arts Center
- 10/25/02 UC Riverside Receives Federal Grant to Integrate Technology and Performance-Based New Teacher Assessment
- 10/25/02 UC Riverside Proud of World Baseball Champions
- 10/25/02 UC Riverside leads the country with the highest number of 2002 AAAS Fellows
- 10/21/02 Inland Hispanic Magazine Recognizes Alfredo Figueroa For Work With Youth
- 10/21/02 UC Riverside Says Fond Farewell to Noted Musicologist, Philip Brett
- 10/18/02 The Smithsonian O. Orkin Insect Safari crawls into Riverside
- 10/09/02 UC Riverside Will Host Five International Fulbright Scholars This Year
- 10/07/02 University of California, Riverside to Share In $240 Million Federal Math And Science Partnership Program
- 10/04/02 UC Riverside Baseball Coach Recognized by Disabilities Group
- 10/03/02
University of California, Riverside scientists contribute to study that will help formulate new ways to combat malaria
- 09/30/02 UC Riverside Library to Share in $7 Million Worth of Technology Grants
- 09/27/02 UC Riverside to Host Israeli-Palestinian Peace Movement Experts
- 09/27/02 UC Riverside Hosts On Campus Preview Day For Interested Students and their Parents
- 09/26/02 University of California, Riverside study dates our ancestors
- 09/24/02
The University of California, Riverside Celebrates
Two Campus "Women of Achievement" - 09/24/02 Noted Horror Expert to Launch New Lecture Series at UC Riverside
- 09/20/02 University of California, Riverside to hold September 25 groundbreaking ceremony for Engineering II
- 09/19/02 University of California, Riverside Assistant Dean Chosen for Prestigious California Agricultural Leadership Program
- 09/17/02
UCR Professor Leads “Promotoras” Network to Aid Health Care Among Latinos
- 09/10/02
University of California, Riverside researcher Alexander Raikhel awarded $4.3 million to study mosquitoes
Research has implications on preventing transmission of deadly diseases - 09/10/02
Fruit flies under discussion at UC Riverside
Seventh Annual Exotic Fruit Fly Symposium to examine eradication, control, and genetic engineering of fruit flies - 09/04/02
UC Riverside announces new integrated research study
ChevronTexaco North America Products provides funding of $25,000 - 09/04/02 University of California, Riverside study shows new generation of gasoline vehicles contributes to cleaner air
- 08/29/02 University of California, Riverside Receives DuPont Gift of Intellectual Property in Form of Herbicide
- 08/29/02 University of California, Riverside's College of Engineering receives $100,000 from U.S. Navy
- 08/27/02 New University Librarian to Join UC Riverside: Ruth Jackson comes from Wichita State University, Kansas where she fostered technological innovation and partnerships inside and outside of campus
- 08/20/02
Distinguished Professor first American elected president of international economic history association
- 08/20/02
Near-Zero Emission Engines … on Gasoline?
Results of Groundbreaking Study of Extremely Low Emission Vehicles to be Released; Panel of Experts to Discuss Findings - 08/08/02 Gift From Honey Jordan Fund Pays for UCR Course
- 08/06/02 UC Riverside is founding member of Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
- 07/25/02
The University of California, Riverside and Arizona State University
Study Dads and Teens With $3.5 million Grant
- 07/08/02 Acid rain threatens forests in more ways than previously thought
- 07/02/02
Anthropologist Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez Wins Malinowski Award
- 06/25/02 Y. Peter Chung named interim dean for Anderson Graduate School of Management
- 06/25/02 UC Riverside Professor Advised Film Makers About Adults With Mental Retardation
- 06/21/02 University of California, Riverside Announces New Post for Development of Undergraduate Research Funding
- 06/19/02 UC Riverside Leads University of California in Diversity of Transfer Students From California Community Colleges:The Fourth Straight Year of growth
- 06/19/02 Sweet Citrus Varieties with Deep Orange Rind Released by UC Riverside
- 06/13/02 University of California, Riverside Scientists Report Molecular Switch Assists Plant Survival in Floods
- 06/13/02 National Survey Shows Fathers are Hugging Children More
- 06/13/02 University of California, Riverside to Host Spider Experts
- 06/12/02 Native Languages to be Revitalized Through UCR
- 06/10/02
UCR Employee’s Father was Code Talker during World War II
- 06/04/02
Free Youth Sports Program At UCR Seeks Applicants
- 06/03/02
CE-CERT to Test Vehicles in Automotive Engineering Competition
- 05/31/02
Quilt Honoring Cesar Chavez In UCR Event
- 05/30/02
Leading Jazz Scholar To Speak at UCR
- 05/23/02 Two Professors Honored for Teaching Excellence
- 05/23/02 Earth Science's Harry Green is 2003 Faculty Research Lecturer
- 05/23/02 UCR Scientists Report a New Organic Bistable Material
- 05/23/02 UCR Research Examines Sexual Lives of Colonists
- 05/22/02
Biology Seminar to Address the Rise in Complexity in Nature
- 05/22/02
UCR Researcher Among the Winners of Psychology’s
Largest Monetary Prize for Research on Happiness
- 05/20/02
New Leadership in Store for UCR
Anderson Graduate School of Management
- 05/16/02 UCR Scientists Discover a Novel Adaptive Antiviral Defense Mechanism in Animals
- 05/15/02 UCR Professor Earns 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award
- 05/14/02
Economist Sutch Will Speak as Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
- 05/14/02 Can We Learn about Sex from Animals?
- 05/13/02 Athletics, Math Mix at UCR For High School Boys
- 05/13/02
Math Academy Starting This Summer at UCR
- 05/13/02
Math, Technology Programs at UCR For Middle School Girls
- 05/10/02
UCR Offers Free Summer Programs For Middle-School Boys and Girls
- 05/10/02 UCR Celebrates Legacy of Malcolm X
- 05/09/02 UCR Professor is TV Host in Spare Time
- 05/09/02 UCR Center Will Look at Intersection of Growth and Environment
- 05/09/02 UCR junior awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
- 05/03/02
Anthropology’s Impact Subject of UCR Speakers
- 05/03/02 Conference at UCR Asks “Is The United States in Decline?”
- 05/03/02 How Old is the Palm Springs Creosote Bush Really?
- 04/30/02
UCR Forum Looks at How Sept. 11 has Shaped Civil Liberties
- 04/25/02 Cahuilla Woman Honored at UCR for Touching the Future
- 04/23/02
UCR Seeking High School Girls To Launch Summer Math Program
- 04/23/02 CE-CERT scientists developing process to convert wet bio-waste into energy as alternative to land application
- 04/23/02
Extension’s Sheila Dwight Honored With
UCEA Exceptional and Innovative Leadership Award
- 04/19/02
Police Get Cuddly, Pack Teddy Bears Along with Usual Crime Fighting Tools
- 04/19/02
Governor’s Office Awards UCR Computer Initiative
- 04/19/02 'Connecting the dots': A forum on the development of a new economy in the Coachella Valley
- 04/19/02 UCR Loses Distinguished Scientist to Cancer
- 04/18/02
UCR Hosts 15th Annual Tomás Rivera Conference
- 04/17/02 UCR lecture to address ethical challenges of the Human Genome Project
- 04/17/02
UCR Extension Education Director Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
- 04/16/02 Boyce Lecture to coincide with grand opening of New Entomology Building
- 04/15/02 Two UCR Researchers to Advise President's Commission on Special Education
- 04/10/02
Hundreds of Teddy Bears Donated
To Police for Work with Kids
- 04/08/02 UCR Expert Marks Tenth Anniversary of Los Angeles Civil Unrest
- 04/02/02 War on Terrorism is Topic of Speech at UCR
- 03/29/02 UCR Cultural Studies Boosted by Ford Foundation Grant
- 03/28/02 California Book Award Goes to UCR’s Susan Straight
- 03/28/02 UCR Celebrates Cesar Chavez Day
- 03/22/02 Intellectual Freedom and Libraries After Sept. 11
- 03/20/02 Acting Chancellor withdraws from consideration for permanent chancellorship
- 03/15/02 Acting Chancellor Statement to the Members of the Campus Community
- 03/15/02 Letter from Acting Chancellor David Warren
- 03/08/02 UCR To Host Riverside Schools Science Fair
- 03/08/02 UCR receives funding for research in preventing terrorism
- 03/07/02 Creation of tiny magnets may lead to big changes
- 03/05/02 UCR Honors Regent Sue Johnson At Desert Gala for Chancellors Associates
- 02/28/02 CE-CERT awarded grant for hydrogen engine research
- 02/27/02 UCR scientists on committee recommending that regulation of transgenic plants be reinforced
- 02/27/02 UCR education expert named to national caregivers’ panel
- 02/27/02 Artist and Robeson scholar comes to UCR
- 02/26/02 Former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture To Head Four-Campus Partnership
- 02/21/02 “Women of Heart” To Be Honored at UCR March 27
- 02/15/02 UCR Receives Grants to Reduce Pesticide Risks
- 02/14/02 UCR Celebrates V-Day 2002 With 'Vagina Monologues'
- 02/14/02 Setting Micro Gears in Motion
- 02/07/02 UCR Olympics Expert Adds Perspective to Modern Games
- 02/07/02 UC Riverside Professor Elected Foreign Secretary of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 02/06/02 Bank of America Supports UCR Math, Science Program for Girls
- 02/04/02 UCR Conference Focuses on World Attitudes Toward Sexuality
- 01/30/02 Diverse Group of Writers at UCR for 25th Annual Writers Week
- 01/30/02 Celebrating 30 years of chicano student programs at UCR
- 01/25/02 Bank of America Report to the Region: Action Plan from Four Years of SAT 9 Results
- 01/24/02 Adsorption on Clay Accounts for Organic-Rich Rocks
- 01/23/02 Alcohol Linked to Crime More Often Than Illegal Drugs
- 01/22/02 Trail-Blazing Journalist Comes to UCR To Comment on Revolutionary 1960s Film
- 01/18/02 UCR Scientists Discover Wound-Healing Substance
- 01/18/02 UCR Scientists Discover Wound-Healing Substance
- 01/18/02 UCR Professor Wins National Honor
- 01/14/02 Eminent Astrophysicist Sir Ian Axford to Visit UCR
- 01/11/02 UCR Intensifies Fuel Cell Research for Next Generation of Cars
- 01/09/02 Gift to College of Engineering Will Support Nanoscale Research
- 01/09/02 UCR to Host Celebration of The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 01/08/02 UCR's Resource Management Strategy
