2005 Headlines

• 12/26/05 Fish evolve a longer lifespan by evolving a longer period during which they reproduce, researchers find
• 12/23/05 Civil War Historian Roger Ransom Looks at War as the Ultimate Gamble
• 12/22/05 Export Fundamentals Seminar Set For January at UCR Palm Desert
• 12/21/05 Computer Science Professor’s Animation used by Health Provider
• 12/18/05 Happy People Set Goals and Achieve Them, UCR Researcher Says
• 12/13/05 UC Riverside Archaeologist Part of Team Studying Early Maya Mural
• 12/09/05 Lots of Magic in the Movies
• 12/06/05 National Report on Healthful Foods Includes Input from UC Riverside's Executive Vice Chancellor, Ellen Wartella
• 12/01/05 UC Riverside Scholar Explores Chinese Folk Dance at the Riverside Public Library
  
• 11/29/05 UCR faculty to shed light on work by recipients of the 2005 Nobel Prizes
• 11/24/05 Largest Major at UCR Moving to Graduate School of Management
• 11/23/05 Ambassador Richard Boucher Speaks Tuesday at UC Riverside
• 11/22/05 UC Riverside Environmental Scientists Receive Soil Science Awards
• 11/18/05 UC Riverside Welcomes Homeschool Students
• 11/16/05 UCR Professor Wins Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
• 11/11/05 Biotech Entrepreneur is Keynote Speaker at Regional Undergraduate Research Conference Hosted by UC Riverside
  
• 11/10/05 UC Riverside Scholar Explores Games at the Riverside Public Library
• 11/10/05 UCR to Submit Medical School Proposal to UC Officials
• 11/09/05 UC Riverside Nanocamp in the Spotlight on UCTV
• 11/09/05 UC Riverside Libraries Author Series Offers “Native Universe”
• 11/08/05 Wal-Mart Documentary Set for Nov. 13 in Downtown Riverside
• 11/08/05 UC Riverside Hosts Two Events Focused on the Aftermath of Recent Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast
• 11/08/05 National Association Honors UCR Education Professor’s Book
• 11/07/05 Big Hopes for UCR Engineers Developing Tiny Devices That Can “Hear” Cancer
• 11/04/05 Foundation Offers UC Riverside Alum Chance to Achieve Musical Dream
• 11/03/05 UCR Environmental Scientists Propose Chemical Solution to Cleaning California’s Salton Sea
• 10/31/05 Physicists offer new approach to studying antimatter
• 10/27/05 Eight UCR Faculty Members Named 2005 AAAS Fellows
• 10/21/05 UC Riverside Hosts Second Diversity Summit
• 10/21/05 University of California, Riverside Space, Science & Engineering Day
• 10/20/05 Leading Health Scientists and Medical Educators to Speak at UCR
• 10/20/05 UC Riverside Music Professor Tim Labor Nominated for Ovation Award
• 10/20/05 UCR Researcher Named to State Bilingual Education Panel
• 10/19/05 Based on Body Size, Bacteria and Elephants Have Similar Metabolism, Ecologists Find
• 10/17/05 UCR/California Museum of Photography Offers Up Airy Perspective
• 10/14/05 UC Riverside Invites Students, Parents To Preview Life on Campus
• 10/12/05 Library Author Series Kicks off Fourth Year with Waxy Topic
• 10/05/05 UCR Alumnus Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 10/03/05 UC Riverside Faculty Member to Sign New Book about Welfare Moms
• 10/03/05 UCR Hosts Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research
• 10/03/05 UC Riverside ‘Pottermania 2005’ Offers Scholarly Insights
• 09/30/05 UCR Research Funding Sets Record at More Than $109 million
• 09/29/05 When it Comes to Evolution, Seeing May Be Believing
• 09/28/05 Union Bank of California Presents Scholarships to First UCR Palm Desert campus Students
  
• 09/28/05 University of California to Host Conference for Industry
• 09/27/05 Stellar Cast of Health Scientists to Speak at UCR
• 09/26/05 Molecule Walks Like a Human
• 09/26/05 UC Riverside Recognizes Excellence in Teaching, Research and Collaboration
• 09/26/05 UC Riverside Professor Emeritus Carlos Cortes to be honored at Hispanic Image Awards
• 09/23/05 International Materials Engineering Organization Names UCR Dean to Presidential Post
  
• 09/23/05 Blood Drive Initiates UCR Hurricane Relief Efforts
• 09/21/05 Noted UCR Entomologist Louis Riehl Dies at 92
• 09/21/05 UC Riverside Holds Anne Rothfarb Memorial Fundraiser Concert Amid Thunderstorm
• 09/20/05 UCR Biochemist Goes to Washington with High-Protein Corn
• 09/14/05 UC Riverside Programs Hit Airwaves on UCTV
• 09/13/05 UCR’s Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
• 09/13/05 Students at UCR Move in This Month
• 09/12/05 UCR Physicist Appointed Systemwide Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
• 09/12/05 UCR Student Dexter Thomas Goes to Help Hurricane Victims
• 09/09/05 EPA Fellowships Support Graduate Students’ Environmental Research
• 09/09/05 UC Riverside and City of Riverside Set Community Meeting for Wednesday, Sept. 14
• 09/08/05 The Study of Youth Violence Prevention Gets Boost with $4.3 million to UC Riverside Center
• 09/06/05 Cigarette Smoke Reduces Transport of Hamster Eggs
• 09/02/05 Experts Available to Talk to About Effects of Hurricane Katrina
• 09/02/05 UC Riverside to Accept Students Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
• 08/30/05 New Reading Certificate Prepares Teachers and Administrators in Two-Way Immersion
• 08/21/05 Mathematics Education at UCR Gets a Boost
• 08/18/05 UCR Researchers Synthesize Molecules That Can Accelerate Chemical Reactions Used to Manufacture Drugs
• 08/17/05 UC Riverside Researchers Discover Model Organism For Studying Viruses that Affect Humans
  
• 08/12/05 Nanofabrication Cleanroom Facility Opens at UC Riverside
• 08/09/05 Physicist Receives National Award from the U.S. Department of Energy
• 08/08/05 Commons Area Expansion Underway
• 08/05/05 UCR Toxicologist Named to State Science Advisory Board
• 08/03/05 UCR Swears in New Chief of Police
• 08/02/05 UC Cooperative Extension Spearheads State Program for Military Children
• 08/01/05 Biologists Crack Genetic Code for Specialized Spider Silk
• 08/01/05 Incoming Freshmen get a FastStart on Their College Education
• 07/29/05 UC Riverside Graduate Student Lands Ford Foundation Fellowship
• 07/27/05 UC Riverside Has New Director of Planned Giving
• 07/25/05 NPR Airs UC Riverside Professor’s Critique of Tijuana Dress Code
• 07/25/05 Engineering Program Helps Girl Scouts Design Their Own Products
  
  
• 07/21/05 Ratings Board, Like Parents, In the Dark on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• 07/20/05 UC Riverside Hosts “Gathering of the Tribes” Summer Residential Program
• 07/19/05 Eleven Undergraduate Students From Across the Nation do Plant Research at UCR
• 07/18/05 UC Riverside Professor is Fellow of the National Humanities Center
• 07/15/05 UC Riverside Science Fiction Trove Winning Literary War of the Worlds
• 07/15/05 Carbon Nanotubes Could Aid Human Bones on the Mend
• 07/14/05 Memorial Service to be held for UCR Researcher
• 07/12/05 Federal Grant Supports Minority Undergraduate Student Research at UCR
• 07/11/05 UC Riverside Poet Evokes Missing Memories in “Ghost Nurseries”
• 07/10/05 Boosting Vitamin C in Plants Can Help Reduce Smog Damage
• 07/08/05 New Dean Appointed to lead the Bourns College of Engineering
• 07/07/05 UC Riverside, La Sierra University Sign Collaborative Agreements
• 06/30/05 Jack Azzaretto To Serve As Interim Leader in Administration
• 06/30/05 Graduate Training at UCR Earns $2.9 Million Boost from NSF
• 06/29/05 ALPHA Programs Provide Summer Learning Opportunities
• 06/28/05 UC Riverside Announces New Police Chief
• 06/27/05 Engineering Program Brings Young Students to UCR
  for Hands on Nanotechnology Experience
  
• 06/24/05 UCR’s Police Chief Hank Rosenfeld Retires
• 06/24/05 New Program Provides Research and Professional Development to Aid Community Colleges
• 06/23/05 City, UCR Working Together to Solve Neighborhood Complaints
• 06/22/05 New Web Site Offers Resources for UCR's Neighbors
• 06/19/05 Library Program Receives Major Computer Science Award
• 06/17/05 UC Riverside Conference Explores American Indian Policy Issues
• 06/17/05 College of Engineering Program Introduces Girls to the World Of Engineering
• 06/13/05 Economic Development Director Earns Promotion at UC Riverside
• 06/12/05 Plant Genetics Graduate Student Receives National Fellowship
• 06/08/05 Economist, Biochemist Recognized for Their Mentorship of Graduate Students
• 06/08/05 UCR M.B.A. Graduate Receives Management Award
• 06/08/05 UCR Researchers Develop Cover Crops Designed to Improve Desert Farming
• 06/07/05 UC Riverside Announces 51st Commencement Ceremonies
• 06/06/05 West Nile Virus Experts at UC Riverside
• 06/03/05 Free Children’s Program for Healthy Living Looking for Enrollees
• 06/03/05 Vice Chancellor of Administration Announces He Will Leave UCR
• 06/02/05 UCR Foundation Reached $50 Million Goal
• 06/02/05 UC Riverside Economist David Fairris is Lead Author on Living Wage Study to Get Hearing by LA City Council June 3
• 06/01/05 Jazz Legend and Friend of UCR Dies
• 06/01/05 Luce Foundation Supports UCR Libraries’ Efforts to Build Southeast Asian Collection
  
• 05/31/05 Botanist Named Vice Provost For Academic Personnel at UC Riverside
• 05/31/05 UCR Physicist Named to Space Studies Board
• 05/27/05 Biochemistry Graduate Student Receives UCR Award for Outstanding Research
• 05/26/05 UC Riverside will Host Researchers who Study Alcohol’s Impact on Society
• 05/25/05 Atmospheric Chemist Receives Faculty Research Lecturer Award
• 05/24/05 The Village Bookstore at UC Riverside Holds Signing for Book of Essays
• 05/23/05 UCR Police Officer Honored by Law Enforcement Group
• 05/21/05 UC Riverside Names Parent of the Year
• 05/19/05 Air Quality Award Presented to UC Riverside Research Faculty Member
• 05/19/05 Super-Mom Making Super Acids Gets National Science Foundation Grant
• 05/18/05 UCR Palm Desert Names Liaisons for Executive-in-Residence Program
• 05/17/05 Elementary Students Practiced Their Art May 17 at Gluck Day of the Arts
• 05/17/05 UC Riverside Education Professor to Help Revitalize Endangered Language
• 05/17/05 Village Bookstore at UC Riverside Holds Signing for Book of Essays
• 05/17/05 Associate Professor of Education Elected Fellow of Language and
  Literacy Organization.
  
  
• 05/17/05 Plant Scientist Discusses Plant Genetics Issues At Library Event
  
• 05/16/05 UCR Citrus Variety Collection Display and Tasting Remains One of the Most Popular Attractions at the Riverside Orange Blossom Festival
• 05/16/05 Author Larry E. Burgess to Reflect on “The Inconvenience of History”
• 05/16/05 Economist Tackles Issue of Global Hunger and Malnutrition
• 05/15/05 UC Riverside to Hold Memorial Service for the Young and the Old
• 05/13/05 Alpha Pi Sigma Sorority Wins the 2003-04 Marguleas Service Award at UCR
• 05/13/05 Entomologist to Speak on the Development of Insect Disease-Causing Organisms
• 05/12/05 Bilingual Education Conference to Feature Founder of Homeboy Industries
• 05/10/05 Two Science Buildings Evacuated Due to Fire
• 05/10/05 UC Riverside Researchers Aim to Make Fuel Cell
  Technology Commercially Viable
  
• 05/09/05 Utah Geologist to Speak on Martian ‘Blueberries’ and the Possibility of Life on the Red Planet
  
• 05/09/05 University of California Police Department Targets Seat Belt Violators in May, June Including Memorial Day
  
• 05/09/05 UC Riverside’s Center for Ideas and Society to Sponsor Talk on Race and Culture
• 05/06/05 UCR Historian’s Tribute to American Indians Wins National Award
• 05/05/05 UCR Chemist Part of Team Identifying New Areas of Gene Regulation
• 05/05/05 Two UC Riverside Writers Strike Silver in California Book Awards
• 05/05/05 UC Riverside Welcomes New Associate Vice Chancellor Susan A. Harlow
• 05/04/05 Campus Literary Magazine Celebrates 2005 Issue
• 05/04/05 Five Ph.D. Candidates Receive Graduate Research Awards
• 05/04/05 Accrediting Body Okays UCR Palm Desert Programs
• 05/02/05 UC Riverside’s Seventh Annual "Primavera in the Gardens" Fund-Raiser Set for Sunday, May 15
  
• 05/02/05 It’s Not All Sand and Sun at the Beach
• 04/30/05 UC Riverside Libraries and The Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame Team Up for Conference on Science Fiction
  
• 04/29/05 Village Bookstore at UC Riverside Holds Book Signing
• 04/29/05 UCR’s ‘Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Engineering’ Programs Put Young Students in the Laboratory
• 04/28/05 Undergraduate Research Conference Connects Students with Faculty Mentors
• 04/26/05 UCR Researchers Part of Brookhaven National Laboratory Team That Discovered “Perfect” Liquid Thought to be What Existed When the Universe Began
• 04/26/05 UCR-produced Television Series Presents Los Angeles-area Artists at UC Riverside
  
• 04/21/05 Scholarships for Iraq War Veterans Established At UCR Satellite Campus
• 04/21/05 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Selected to Receive National Honor
• 04/19/05 Creative Writing Professor Reads from Book of Poetry
• 04/19/05 Friends, Colleagues Gather April 29th to Recall What Happened "After the Rain"
• 04/18/05 Dynamometer Revs Up Diesel Engine Research Lab at UCR’s CE-CERT
• 04/15/05 UC Riverside Hosts CaliFest '05 Hip-Hop Theatre
• 04/14/05 Purdue University Recognizes UCR Director of the Institute
  For Integrative Genome Biology with Alumni Award
  
• 04/12/05 The Jameson Foundation Boosts Annual UC Riverside Scholarship Fund with $30,000 Gift
• 04/12/05 Air Quality is First Topic in New Seminar Series at UC Riverside
• 04/12/05 Irvine Foundation Grant to Fund Coachella Valley Teacher Enhancement Program
• 04/11/05 Education Professor Jan Blacher Part of Nationwide Study on Services for the Developmentally Disabled
  
• 04/11/05 New UCR Literary Arts Journal to Feature Fiction, Poetry, Criticism
  
  
• 04/07/05 Californian Elected to Michoacan State Legislature Will Speak at UC Riverside on Migrant Rights
• 04/07/05 UC Riverside’s Graduate School of Education Receives Grants to Fund Reading Improvement Research
• 04/06/05 Homer Chapman, One of UC Riverside's Founding Faculty Members, Dies at age 106
• 04/04/05 UC Riverside Historian to Be Keynote Speaker at National Media Education Conference
  
• 03/28/05 Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series Ends April 1 at UC Riverside
• 03/22/05 Funding, Prestige in Future for Four Young UC Riverside Faculty Members
• 03/21/05 UCR Professor Links Frederick Douglass and Modern Hip Hop
• 03/18/05 UCR Visiting Professor Wins Prestigious Hemingway/PEN Fiction Award
• 03/17/05 Distinguished Professor Recognized for his Contributions to Chemistry
• 03/16/05 UCR Congratulates Winners of the Riverside Schools Science and Engineering Fair
• 03/15/05 English Professor Reads from Book on America’s Struggle with the Vietnam War
• 03/14/05 Biologist’s Findings on Fertility and Status in Monkeys Generate Scientific, Media Interest
  
• 03/14/05 Researchers Discover Chemical Compounds that Help Plants Deal with Gravity
• 03/14/05 UC Riverside Scholar to Lead the American Studies Association
• 03/14/05 International Foundation Backs Composition of UCR Professor’s Opera
• 03/11/05 Chemical Exposure Expert Receives Top Chemical Association Award
• 03/10/05 UCR Professor, Agricultural Engineer Named Water Resources Center Director
• 03/10/05 Researchers Unlock Mechanism Creating Jigsaw Puzzle-Like Plant Cells
• 03/09/05 Talk Focuses on the Role of Methane Trapped in Ocean Sediment in Abrupt Climate Changes
• 03/09/05 Riverside Schools Science and Engineering Fair Projects on Display at UCR
• 03/07/05 UC Riverside Student Alumni Association Works Hard, Wins Award
  
• 03/03/05 Scientific Festival Probes Ecological Sciences, Honors Retired Professors
• 02/28/05 UCR Celebrates Semana De La Mujer
• 02/28/05 Mesa Day invites students to showcase skills in math, science and engineering
• 02/25/05 SETI Institute Leader Concludes Lecture Series Bringing To UCR Pioneers in the Search for Life in the Universe
  
• 02/25/05 UC Riverside Chancellor France Córdova Speaks at Caltech March 9 in Presidential Lecture Series on Achieving Diversity
  
• 02/25/05 Parent of Slain Teen to Speak at UCR
• 02/24/05 Services Set Sunday for Arthur Campbell Turner, 86, First Head of Division of Social Sciences
• 02/24/05 Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series Continues March 2 at UC Riverside
• 02/23/05 Philosophers Gather at UC Riverside to Talk about Agency and Answerability
  
• 02/18/05 UC Riverside Celebrates V-DAY 2005
• 02/18/05 UC Riverside Professor to Sign Books at the Village Bookstore
• 02/17/05 Student Engineers get Technical at UC Riverside
• 02/14/05 Cassini Mission to Saturn Subject of Next UCR Science Pioneers Lecture
  
• 02/14/05 UC Riverside Campus in the Spotlight on UCTV
• 02/11/05 Executive Vice Chancellor/Provost Part of Team Reporting
  Findings of Media’s Effects on Children
  
• 02/10/05 UC Riverside Chancellor Serves on American Council on Education Panel on Higher Education Reform
  
• 02/10/05 Assumptions of Effects of Rising Carbon Dioxide Probed
• 02/10/05 Controversy Over Genetically Modified Corn in Mexican Crops Focus of Discussion
• 02/10/05 Anderson Graduate School of Management Leader Named
• 02/09/05 Establishment of Tuskegee Airmen Archive Announced at UCR Event
• 02/08/05 UC Riverside Professor Shares Personal History
• 02/08/05 Musical Love “Notes” to Float Around Campus Feb. 14
• 02/07/05 New UCR Dean to Speak about Educational Partnerships
• 02/04/05 UC Riverside Graduate Directs Documentary on Shirley Chisholm
• 02/04/05 UC Riverside to Hold 28th Annual Writers Week Feb. 8-12
• 02/03/05 UCR Scientist Part of Project Team Accepted to NASA’s Small Explorer Program
• 02/03/05 UC Riverside Researchers are Testing the Accuracy of Data Mining Programs Developed for Homeland Security
  
  
• 02/03/05 Graduate Student Association Annual Student Conference
• 02/01/05 UC Riverside Housing Director to Lead Regional Trade Association
• 02/01/05 UCR Ethnic Studies Professor Discusses Black Journalist, Politician, & Historian
• 01/31/05 UC Riverside Celebrates Black History
• 01/31/05 Blues Concert to Benefit African Student Programs at UCR
• 01/28/05 Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series Starts Feb. 3 at UC Riverside
• 01/27/05 UCR Engineering Honor Society Unanimously Approved as
  Chapter of National Honor Society
  
  
• 01/27/05 Molecular Biology Fills Gaps in Knowledge of Bat Evolution
• 01/26/05 State Senator Jackie Speier Stops at UC Riverside to Talk About Doing More with Less
  
• 01/26/05 Lecture Series Brings to UCR Pioneers in the Search for the Life in the Universe
  
• 01/26/05 Atmospheric Chemist Recognized by American Geophysical Union
• 01/26/05 Chancellor’s Task Force Report on the April 2004 Fire At Lothian Residence Hall Prompts Campus Responses
  
• 01/25/05 Film-maker Sam Green to Screen, Discuss “The Weather Underground” at UCR
• 01/25/05 Quantum Dots Research Leads to New Knowledge
  about Protein Binding in Plants
  
• 01/21/05 UCR Professors Give Public Talks Explaining Nobel Prize Work
• 01/21/05 Microbiologist Named National Associate of National Academies
• 01/20/05 UC Riverside Names Director of Heckmann Center in Palm Desert
• 01/20/05 Five Alumni Honored for Distinction
• 01/19/05 UCR Electrical Engineering Associate Professor
  Invited to Chair International Conference
  
• 01/18/05 UC Riverside Biology Major Loses Life Trying to Help Another
• 01/18/05 UCR’s Business School Dean Takes on New Assignment
• 01/18/05 UC Riverside and Riverside Community College Celebrate Dr. King
• 01/17/05 UC Riverside Historian is Distinguished Humanist
• 01/14/05 Pamela Clute named Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Outreach
  and Educational Partnerships
• 01/14/05 UCR Center to Host Conference on Suburban Development
• 01/13/05 Uncalculated Risks in Some Pesticides, UCR Study Finds
• 01/13/05 UC Riverside Hosts Panel Discussion on the State of American Journalism
• 01/12/05 Roundtable to Discuss South Asia Tsunami Economic Implications
• 01/12/05 UC Riverside Students, Staff and Faculty Pitch in to Tsunami Relief
• 01/12/05 Plant Biology Symposium to Discuss Nitrogen Buildup
• 01/12/05 UC Riverside Faculty and Students Write Their Way to Success
• 01/11/05 UC Riverside Selects Consultant on Health Sciences Initiative
• 01/11/05 Graduate School of Education Receives Association Approval
• 01/07/05 Earth Summit for Youth on Global Biodiversity set for Jan. 16-29
• 01/06/05 12th Annual Noche Cultural Scheduled at UC Riverside
• 01/06/05 Professor of Education Elected IASSID Fellow
  
• 01/05/05 It’s All In Who You Know
• 01/05/05 UCR Creative Writing Professor Reads from Collection of Short Stories
• 01/03/05 UC Riverside Fund-Raising Has New Ally in Robb Drury

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