University of California, Riverside

Ruben Barrales, party guy

2013-05-08 00:00:00

When President Obama told students in Mexico that without the support of U.S. Latinos he would not be president, he wasn't talking about the GOP's Ruben Barrales. But Barrales gets the message. He is the son of immigrants, and San Mateo County's first...

Cal State chief visits campus, dances and chats with students

2013-04-23 20:25:00

Almost before he had taken his last spin, there was a YouTube video up of Cal State University Chancellor Timothy P. White break dancing in front of hundreds of appreciative students at the Dominguez Hills campus Tuesday. It follows the video of him...

Going for a spin of Cal State

2013-04-23 23:51:00

Almost before he had taken his last spin, there was a video posted on YouTube of Cal State University Chancellor Timothy P. White break dancing in front of hundreds of appreciative students at the Dominguez Hills campus. It follows the video of him...

Boy Scout leaders recommend allowing gay boys into the ranks

2013-04-19 17:52:00

Top officials of the Boy Scouts of America have unanimously recommended allowing gay boys into the ranks of one of the nation’s oldest and most traditional youth groups while continuing to exclude homosexual adults as leaders. Scouting’s...

Leaders of Boy Scouts endorse allowing gay boys but not adults

2013-04-19 18:25:00

Top officials of the Boy Scouts of America have unanimously recommended allowing gay boys into the ranks of one of the nation's oldest and most traditional youth groups while continuing to exclude homosexual adults as leaders. Scouting's executive...

UC Berkeley student leaders urge UC to divest from some firms

2013-04-18 16:34:00

Elected student leaders at UC Berkeley passed a resolution early Thursday that urged the UC system to divest from�companies said to profit from anti-Palestinian Israeli policies. The controversial resolution was passed in the student government’...

Boston Marathon: Family doesn't know if Torrance man will recover

2013-04-18 07:49:00

The Torrance businessman critically injured in the Boston Marathon bombings has undergone multiple surgeries, but his family doesn't know if he will survive, his son-in-law said Wednesday. John Odom was watching his daughter, former UCLA softball player...

Boston Marathon bombing victim attended UC Riverside

2013-04-17 19:56:00

The 23-year-old Chinese woman who was a graduate student at Boston University and the third victim killed in the Boston Marathon bombings was also a former UC Riverside Extension student, according to school officials. Jane Close Conoley, the interim...

Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president

2013-04-15 08:08:00

With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...

UC expected to launch wide search for new president

2013-04-15 00:00:00

Mark Yudof likes to point out that he was the first real outsider in more than a century chosen to run the sprawling University of California system. And he often jokes that, as a result of his leadership, it is likely to take a hundred years more...

UC Santa Barbara student leaders vote down divestment resolution

2013-04-11 14:19:00

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details Elected student leaders at UC Santa Barbara voted down a resolution early Thursday that would have urged the UC system to divest from�companies said to profit from anti-Palestinian...

UC Riverside student leaders revoke Israel divestment policy

2013-04-04 16:59:00

After much debate that brought the passions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts to campus, UC Riverside’s student government has reversed itself and revoked a prior resolution that urged the UC system to divest from companies that have contracts...

UC Riverside has proposed building a medical school, but some have expressed budget concerns.

2012-07-20 23:42:00

Students protesting rising tuition fill the stairway and walkway at the UC Riverside building where the UC Regents met in January.

2012-05-16 11:54:00

Cory Hahn, a former Mater Dei High and Arizona State player who was paralyzed from the chest down last season while sliding into second base, takes his place in line with the Sun Devils for the national anthem before a game on campus.

2012-02-25 17:06:48