News for Faculty and Staff of the University of California, Riverside • Volume 6, Number 4• Feb. 24, 2010 • www.InsideUCR.ucr.edu By Bettye Miller To the titles Recipient of a National Humanities Medal and Professor of History Emeritus, Henry Snyder can add one more: Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. The award, which is presented to few individuals outside the United Kingdom, was announced by Queen Elizabeth II in December and will be presented to Snyder at the British embassy in Washington, D.C., in early spring. Snyder, a scholar of British history, was recognized for “service to English Studies worldwide” for his work of more than 32 years on the English Short-Title Catalogue. The cat- alog is a searchable database of every known publication in England and its dependencies from the birth of the printing press in 1473 to 1800. It is the largest bibliography of its kind ever attempted, Snyder said, and lists nearly 500,000 items, including books, handbills, fliers, pamphlets and warrants. “This is the great early printed bibliogra- phy of any language group,” he said. “It was in many ways the pioneer.” The catalog, whose American component is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a joint effort of UCR’s Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, the British Library and the American Antiquarian Society. “It’s nice to get the recognition. I’ve put a lot of effort into the project,” said Snyder, who was nominated by the British Library. The Most Excellent Order of the British By Kris Lovekin Two UCR professors will be honored Thurs- day, March 4, for their innovative teaching styles and success in enhancing the student learning experience during the 2009 Innova- tive Teaching Award and Lecture. The event starts at 2:30 p.m. in Bourns A265. Ward Beyermann, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will talk about how to engage students in the lesson. “To be successful, students must spend much of their class time actively engaged in doing, thinking and talking about the material, not listening to a lecture,” Beyermann said. He will share how he carefully measures the results of any change he makes in his teaching. Andrew Winer, assistant professor in the Department of Creative Writing, will address whether creativity can be taught and how he successfully teaches students not only to recognize good writing, but to create it them- selves. Winer is a novelist and an artist. Both professors were nominated by their students and/or their colleagues for effec- tively using innovative teaching techniques to engage students in the learning process. Their techniques have shown measurable results in the classroom and this is reflected in the excel- lent evaluations from their students, according to Gladis Herrera-Berkowitz, UCR’s director of instructional development in the Office of Undergraduate Education. “The event is a resource for our teaching faculty,” she said. “We stop what we are doing long enough to recognize what has gone right, and to ask ourselves how we share those tech- niques across the campus.” The event is open to all but an RSVP is requested by March 1 to [email protected]. Sharing a Wealth of Teaching Techniques It’s Official: Henry Snyder is Most Excellent Empire is an order of chivalry created in 1917 by George V. There are five degrees of award in civil and military divi- sions; Officer is fourth out of the five degrees and is not one of those for which knighthood is conferred. Snyder is one of 11 individuals honored in this category. Fully retired since Dec. 31, Snyder said he will continue to offer some assistance to the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, which he previously served as director. He plans to display his OBE medal next to his NEH medal in a case in his TV room at home. Working to combat a steep slide in state support for higher education, advocates for the University of California are planning large rallies in Sacramento this spring to persuade lawmakers that public higher education should be a funding priority. The UC Student Association on March 1 will hold a rally and press conference at the state Capitol. University of California Presi- dent Mark G. Yudof, along with several UC regents and chancellors, will join student organizers later in the day for meetings with key legislative leaders. A second rally on April 27 is being hosted by a coalition that includes UC, the California State University and California Community Colleges. Leaders and key stakeholders from the three public higher education systems will be joined by a select group of community leaders from throughout the state for a joint advocacy day in Sacramento. Organizers hope to draw a broad spectrum of participants, from parents and students, to community organizers, business leaders, fac- ulty and staff. State support for UC has been eroding since the 1990s, but last year, amid a severe recession, lawmakers slashed UC funding by 20 percent. The resulting financial crisis brought layoffs, employee furloughs, reduced class offerings and higher student fees. The UC Board of Regents in November proposed a 2010-11 budget that asks the state for $913 million more in funding, an amount that would allow UC to restore core funding for university operations. UC’s efforts to build support for the restored funding include the launch of an online, grassroots movement to educate law- makers and the public about all the ways that UC serves California and its people. The group is now nearly 300,000 strong — with more than 130,000 people added to the list of UCforCA.org advocates since November. Campuses have also been active, hosting teach-ins, visiting the district offices of local lawmakers and sponsoring “write-ins,” like the campiagn initiated by UC Riverside’s Citizens University Committee. That effort branched out to include service clubs, community groups, chambers of commerce and professional organizations. In addition, the directors and presidents of UC’s alumni associations met in January to begin mobilizing their members. President Yudof and all 10 chancellors have made frequent trips to Sacramento and Washington, D.C., in recent weeks, advocat- ing on UC’s behalf and highlighting the uni- versity’s contributions to California and the nation in terms of research, economic growth and public service. On Jan. 12, Yudof and UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann met with Assem- bly Speaker-elect John Perez (D- Los Ange- les). They discussed the need to re-establish higher education funding as a priority in the state budget, and also talked about how UC and its campuses can help the state recover from the current recession. The pair met later in the day with the gov- ernor on both fiscal and policy matters. Yudof returned to the Capitol on Jan. 25, accompanied by UC San Diego Chancel- lor Marye Anne Fox, this time meeting with Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Senate Appropria- tions Chair Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego), among others, to once again press the case for increased funding. UC advocacy continues on the federal level as well. President Obama’s 2011 budget request included increased funding for Pell Grants and key research agencies including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. As the budget process moves forward, UC’s Washington office will continue work- ing with advocates, students, regents and chancellors to persuade policymakers to provide strong and stable funding for higher education in the areas of education and research, as well as in infrastructure and other areas. UC is also working with nation- al policymakers to re-examine the federal role in supporting higher education and to expand its support for other areas that are critical to the university’s operations. The concerted advocacy efforts seem to be working. Gov. Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget restores $371 million in funding for the university, one clear signal that the uni- versity’s message is being heard. Find out more about UC’s advocacy efforts at www.UC4CA.org. Staff, Faculty Asked to Get Involved in Budget Advocacy Henry Snyder By Kim Lane For many commuters “I need my car dur- ing the day” is a stock response for why they do not use alternative transportation in their commute to UCR But that excuse may not fly anymore. In an attempt to reduce traffic congestion, parking problems and improve air quality, UCR has partnered with Zipcar, the world’s largest car-sharing service, to offer four-fuel efficient car-sharing vehicles that are avail- able for use 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The cars are located in reserved spaces in parking lots 1 and 15. To take advantage of the service, faculty, staff and students pay an annual membership fee of $35. Rental fees are $8 per hour or $66 per day on weekdays, and $9 per hour or $72 per day on weekends. Gas, insurance, 180 driving miles, reserved parking and roadside assistance are included in rates. In addition, members 21 and older have access to Zipcar’s network of more than 6,500 vehicles throughout the U.K. and North America. Local residents not associated with UCR who are ages 21 and older can join for $75, which includes a $25 one-time application fee and $50 annual fee. The service is designed to help UCR manage the increasing demand for park- ing and associated conges- tion, while also offering a convenient, economical and environmentally friendly alternative to owning a car, said Mike Delo, director of transportation and parking services. “We are hoping that the Zipcar program will con- vince some people that they do not need to bring a vehi- cle to campus,” said Delo. “These cars can be used for a doctor’s appointment or to run errands during the day, for a pleasure trip to the beach or in the case of students who live on campus, a trip home for the weekend.” Zipcar, which has been offering campus car sharing since 2002, has programs at more than 120 colleges and universities across the country including MIT, Columbia, George- town, American University, Harvard Univer- sity, University of Minnesota, University of Toronto, University of North Carolina, The University of Chicago, UCLA and Amherst. For more information, including how to join UCR’s Zipcar program, is available at www.zipcar.com/ucr. Zipcar Program Provides Alternative to Owning a Car Specially reserved spaces in lots 1 and 15 are home to campus Zipcars. Photo by Steve Brazil In a rare mailed ballot election, Academ- ic Senate members approved five resolutions relating to strategic planning and budget cuts. The resolutions had been presented at the last division meeting Dec. 4. Four of the resolutions were proposed by a concerned faculty group. Of those four, the resolution that received the most favorable votes — 82 percent of those cast — urged the university “to provide meaningful guidance and long-term planning to ensure continued viability and equity in the provision of retire- ment benefits.” More faculty cast ballots on this resolution — 36 percent of active faculty — than on any other. Emerti faculty are permitted to vote but few do, said Academic Senate Chair Anthony Nor- man. The other resolutions (with approval per- centages) called for: • The university to reconstitute the Com- mission on the Future and allow more time for consideration of policy alternatives and budget realities. (70 percent) • The university to provide meaningful fis- cal transparency, halt cuts in instructional staff positions until the consequences are examined in a forum open to all, and to avoid student fee hikes until further administrative cuts, cost deferrals and new sources of revenue, such as borrowing, are presented.(60 percent) •The availability of all reports in UCR’s strategic planning process and for particu- lar weight to be placed on issues of access and diversity, unintended consequences of the pursuit of AAU status and equitable distribution of resources. (61 percent) A resolution proposed by Professor Harry Green asked the administration to make the highest priority in the strategic planning pro- cess the reduction of unfilled faculty FTE to less than 11 percent. It was approved by a plu- rality of 44 percent, a three-vote margin. Details of the resolutions and votes are available on the Academic Senate Web site at senate.ucr.edu. Academic Senate Members Approve Resolutions Staff, faculty and students can take part in the national car-sharing program.
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News for Faculty and Staff of the University of California, Riverside • Volume 6, Number 4• Feb. 24, 2010 • www.InsideUCR.ucr.edu
By Bettye MillerTo the titles Recipient of a National
Humanities Medal and Professor of History
Emeritus, Henry Snyder can add one more:
Offi cer of the Most Excellent Order of the
British Empire.
The award, which is presented to few
individuals outside the United Kingdom, was
announced by Queen Elizabeth II in December
and will be presented to Snyder at the British
embassy in Washington, D.C., in early spring.
Snyder, a scholar of British history, was
recognized for “service to English Studies
worldwide” for his work of more than 32 years
on the English Short-Title Catalogue. The cat-
alog is a searchable database of every known
publication in England and its dependencies
from the birth of the printing press in 1473 to
1800. It is the largest bibliography of its kind
ever attempted, Snyder said, and lists nearly
500,000 items, including books, handbills,
fl iers, pamphlets and warrants.
“This is the great early printed bibliogra-
phy of any language group,” he said. “It was
in many ways the pioneer.”
The catalog, whose American component
is funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, is a joint effort of UCR’s Center
for Bibliographical Studies and Research, the
British Library and the American Antiquarian
Society.
“It’s nice to get the recognition. I’ve put
a lot of effort into the project,” said Snyder,
who was nominated by the British Library.
The Most Excellent Order of the British
By Kris LovekinTwo UCR professors will be honored Thurs-
day, March 4, for their innovative teaching
styles and success in enhancing the student
learning experience during the 2009 Innova-
tive Teaching Award and Lecture. The event
starts at 2:30 p.m. in Bourns A265.
Ward Beyermann, associate professor in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy, will talk
about how to engage students in the lesson.
“To be successful, students must spend
much of their class time actively engaged in
doing, thinking and talking about the material,
not listening to a lecture,” Beyermann said. He
will share how he carefully measures the results
of any change he makes in his teaching.
Andrew Winer, assistant professor in the
Department of Creative Writing, will address
whether creativity can be taught and how
he successfully teaches students not only to
recognize good writing, but to create it them-
selves. Winer is a novelist and an artist.
Both professors were nominated by their
students and/or their colleagues for effec-
tively using innovative teaching techniques to
engage students in the learning process. Their
techniques have shown measurable results in
the classroom and this is refl ected in the excel-
CorrectionAn article in the Dec. 9 issue of Inside UCR incorrectly stated that
there would be no 2010 increase in insurance costs for employees.
While dental and vision insurance remain free for employees and the
university’s contribution to health insurance premiums remains 87.7
percent, there was an increase in premiums and employees may pay
signifi cantly more for health insurance this year, depending on their
pay band.
For example, when the higher-paid employees’ subsidy of lower-paid
employees’ premiums are factored in, the increases ranged from $4.36 per
month at the lowest pay band for a family in the Kaiser plan to $375.48 a
month in the highest pay band for a family in the Blue Cross PPO plan.
Marlene Zuk
UCR’s Sweeney Art Gallery has
closed in its current location and has
begun the several-month process of
moving down the block into the three-
story Barbara and Art Culver Center
of the Arts, which is located in an
under-renovation late-19th century
department store in the 3800 block
of Main Street in Riverside.
The gallery’s fi nal exhibit in its
current location closed on Feb. 6.
Once in the Culver Center,
Sweeney’s programming will expand
to include more performing arts,
screenings and large-scale instal-
lations, which will be presented in
their own galleries and in a two-story,
2,000-square-foot atrium, located at
the center of the Culver Center.
Both the Culver Center and the
Sweeney Art Gallery will open during
gala events Oct. 7 to 9.
Sweeney Art Gallery Director,
Tyler Stallings, says that “Sweeney
has always aimed to be a bridge
between campus and community
with its exhibitions and programs,
but the Culver will allow this to
become even more so. The atrium
will become a natural gathering spot
and a place for an exchange of ideas.
The screening room will fi ll a gap
in Riverside in which there are only
venues showing mainstream cinema.
The second-fl oor Media Lab for UCR
faculty and students will provide an
opportunity for an ongoing presence
downtown. Having more room for its
vast collections will allow the CMP to
create more study areas for faculty,
students and visiting scholars. Alto-
gether, they show UCR’s commitment
to the value of arts in the community
and as a signifi -
cant component
to research in the
humanities.”
During the
transition, the
gallery will hold
several exhibits
at other locations.
The gallery will
hold its annual
student exhibits
at the neighbor-
ing UCR California
Museum of Pho-
tography (CMP).
The M.F.A. Thesis
2010 exhibits will run from April 24
through May 15, the senior thesis
exhibit will open on May 28 and run
through June 12.
The Sweeney Art Gallery will co-
sponsor with the UC Institute for
Research in the Arts “Dry Immersion
3” a two-day event held March 6 and
7 in Wonder Valley and Palm Des-
ert. The event will include exhibits,
interventions, performances, read-
ings and screenings. The 19 art and
research projects were developed in
connection with an artists’ retreat
and roaming workshop held in Octo-
ber 2009 at the same locations.
Information about this event is avail-
able at sweeney.ucr.edu.
Sweeney Gallery preview events
will be held during the First Thurs-
day ArtsWalks, held on the Riverside
pedestrian mall on May 6, June 3,
July 1, Aug. 5 and Sept. 2.
The UCR Sweeney Art Gallery
opened on campus in 1963 in Olm-
sted Hall, and then moved to Watkins
House in 1978.
In 2006, the gallery moved into
a building next to the UCR/California
Museum of Photography, which has
been located in downtown Riverside
since 1990.
Scheduled to be completed in
2010 and open in October, the Cul-
ver Center of the Arts. The Culver
Center will provide new exhibition
space; a 100-seat fi lm and video
screening room; an atrium gallery for
installation, music, and performance
under a 40-foot-high naturally illu-
minated clerestory monitor; a public
café; a new seismically protected
home for the UCR/CMP’s Keystone-
Mast glass-plate stereo collection;
and an advanced faculty and student
research Media Lab.
The lower level basement facili-
ties of the Culver Center will be
devoted to collections and the pres-
ervation and support of archives.
More information is available at
www.artsblock.ucr.edu.
Sweeney Closes Temporarily to Reopen in the Culver Center
Sweeney will reopen in October in the Barbara and
Art Culver Center of the Arts.
www.InsideUCR.ucr.edu • Feb. 24, 2010 • page 3
Research & Scholarship
Chancellor: Timothy P. White
Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications: Marcia McQuern
Editor: Kim Lane
Editorial Assistant: Konrad Nagy
Inside UCR is published by the Of! ce of Strategic Communications, twice monthly, except December, July, August and September, when it is published once a month.
Ocean Chemistry More ComplexA research team led by biogeo-
chemists Chao Li, Gordon Love and
Timothy Lyons in the Department
of Earth Sciences has developed a
detailed and dynamic three-dimen-
sional model of Earth’s early ocean
chemistry that can signifi cantly
advance understanding of how early
animal life evolved on the planet.
Working on rock samples from
the Doushantuo Formation of South
China, the research team is the fi rst
to show that Earth’s early ocean
chemistry during a large portion of
the Ediacaran Period (635-551 mil-
lion years ago) was far more complex
than previously imagined.
Their model for the ancient
ocean argues for a stratifi ed marine
basin, one with a chemically layered
water column. The overall picture
is a marine basin with co-existing
oxygen-rich, sulfi dic and ferruginous
(oxygen-deprived and iron-dominat-
ed) water layers — a new backdrop
for the earliest evolution of animal
life on the planet.
Reporting Feb. 11 in Science
Express, the researchers argue that
the sulfi dic water layer varied in
size and was capable of hindering
the colonization of early animals on
the shallow seafl oor, and infl uencing
their evolution.
Li, Love and Lyons were joined in
the study by David A. Fike at Wash-
ington University in St. Louis, Mo.;
Alex L. Sessions at the California
Institute of Technology; and Xuelei
Chu at the Chinese Academy of Sci-
ences, Beijing.
The NSF and the Agouron Insti-
tute funded the study.
Jianzhong
Wu
Malaria remains one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Yet,
how Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, regulates its infectious cycle has
remained an enigma despite decades of rigorous research.
But now a research team led by Karine Le Roch, an assistant professor
of cell biology and neuroscience, has identifi ed a mechanism by which
Plasmodium intensively replicates itself in human blood to spread the
disease.
In the cells of eukaryotes, such as the unicellular Plasmodium and
humans, DNA, which can be as long as two meters, is closely packed to
fi t into the cell’s tiny nucleus. Huge complex proteins called nucleosomes
facilitate this DNA compaction so that eventually the DNA is coiled in an
ordered manner to form chromosomes.
Made up of histone, a kind of protein, the nucleosomes are repeat-
ing units around which the double helix of DNA gets wrapped and vast
amounts of genetic information get organized.
Le Roch’s team found that 18 hours after Plasmodium enters a red
blood cell, a kind of “histone crash” takes place – a massive breakdown
of histone that explains how the parasite can replicate extensively its DNA
and coding gene in human red blood cells.
For cell multiplication to occur, the genes in a DNA strand need to
fi rst be transcribed and translated (converted) into protein. For this tran-
scription to take place, however, the nucleosomes must fi rst get evicted
(removed), a process that opens up the DNA strand to give special tran-
scription factors full access to the genes. The transcription factors then
convert these genes into protein.
While in humans such eviction of nucleosomes is specifi c to only
some sections of the DNA strand and performed only when needed, in
Plasmodium the situation is vastly different.
“We found in our experiments that histones are massively evicted
everywhere in the Plasmodium genome, resulting in most of the Plas-
modium genes being transcribed at once,” Le Roch said. “If we can fi nd
a candidate enzyme that can regulate this massive histone eviction, we
could halt or greatly limit Plasmodium replication.”
Study results appear this month in the journal Genome Research.
Le Roch was joined in the study by Nadia Ponts, Elena Harris, Jacques
Prudhomme, Glenn Hicks and Stefano Lonardi at UCR; and Ivan Wick,
Colleen Eckhardt-Ludka and Gary Hardiman at UC San Diego.
Uncovering the Mystery of Malaria
Jeannette Wing, assistant direc-
tor of the Computer and Information
Science and Engineering Director-
ate at the National Science Foun-
dation, gave a talk, “Computational
Thinking,” at the Bourns College of
Engineering’s 20th Anniversary Dis-
tinguished Speaker Series Feb. 17.
In her talk, Wing promoted the
idea of introducing computational
thinking early in students’ lives (i.e.,
in grades K-12). Wing discussed
abstraction and automation as foun-
dations for computation thinking.
“Abstraction is a function which
takes information at one level and
maps it to a higher level, ignoring
NSF’s Wing Makes Case for Computational Thinking
irrelevant details at the lower level,”
she said. “The process of doing that
– of getting machines to learn – is a
very creative process. That’s where
human ingenuity comes in.”
She supported her case with
examples of how computational
thinking infl uences a wide range
of other fi elds such as biology, eco-
nomics, sports, chemistry, medicine
and the geosciences.
Wing gave an example of ways
computational thinking can pose
legal questions by citing an Oral
B scientist’s challenge to discover
what pattern of toothbrush bristles
was most effective.
Louis
Santiago
Ann
Goldberg
African-American students at UCR continue beyond their fi rst year and graduate at higher rates than any other ethnic group, according to the latest retention and six-year gradua-tion fi gures.
African-Americans in the fall 2002 freshman class had a 73.9 percent graduation rate by 2008, while the overall campus graduation rate was 64.3 percent. Their fi rst-year retention rate was 92.8 percent, while the campus persistence rate was 84.9 percent.
Nationwide, about 54 percent of full-time students at four-year public universities graduate in six years, but the rate for African-Americans is 38 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
“I’m delighted to see concrete evidence of what we have known anecdotally – that our African-Amer-ican students are doing as well, or in many instances, better, than UCR students overall,” said UCR Chancel-lor Timothy P. White. “However, our goal is to further increase both reten-tion and graduation rates for African-American students as well as for all student groups.”
Campus offi cials are not entirely sure why African-Americans do so well at UCR, but they believe a criti-cal factor is that African-Americans feel comfortable on the campus, which is the most diverse in the UC system and was ranked fi fth most diverse nationally by U.S. News and World Report.
“Critical mass matters,” said White, “and UCR’s undergraduate
student body refl ects the face of California.” African-Americans are 7 percent of UCR’s student body, not the 1 percent they are on some col-lege campuses.
A 2008 systemwide survey of undergraduate UC students found that a higher percentage of African-Americans on the UCR campus reported that “students of my race/ethnicity are respected on this cam-pus” than their counterparts at any other UC campus
At UCR a total of 71 percent of African-American men responding said this was true as did 83 percent of African-American women. In the overall UC system only 58 percent of male African-Americans and 63 per-cent of female African-Americans agreed.
In the same survey 91 percent of all UCR undergraduates respond-ing compared to 83 percent of UC system undergraduates agreed that “diversity is important on this cam-pus.”
African-American students in engineering and the hard sciences have lower retention and graduation rates than those in the social sci-ences and arts, but this is true for all ethnic groups.
At a recent Board of Regents meeting White said that eliminat-ing all gaps in graduation rates is a “defi ning feature of UCR’s commit-ment to excellence through diver-sity” and he reported data showing that for the past several years UCR is outperforming peer institutions nationally in this regard.
African American Students Do Well at UCR
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Campus Calendar
For the most up-to-date information on these and other events view the UCR Calendar at www.events.ucr.edu.
OngoingUCR/ California Museum of Photography
Exhibition: “Ansel Adams at Work: The Fiat Lux Commission.” Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light) is the motto of the University of California and the title of the book Ansel Adams published in 1968 to celebrate the UC’s centennial. Drawn from reproduction prints the photographer made for this commercial commission, the exhibition shows Ansel Adams at work.
Exhibition: “Mirjam Dröge : The Need to Hold Still.” This exhibition features the work of Mirjam Dröge, a contemporary artist based in Berlin, Germany. Dröge captures physical locations that emphasize privacy, stillness and contemplation, such as clandestine treehouses, self-portraits and still lifes. This is the artist’s fi rst exhibition in the United States.
The exhibits run through May 8. The UCR/CMP is located at 3824 Main St., Riverside. Informa-tion: www.cmp.ucr.edu.
February
24 WednesdayTraining: Making Excellence Inclusive: a UCR Di-versity Certifi cate Program, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m., Human Resources Building (Personnel) Suite I. Free. Information: www.hrtraining.ucr.edu.
25 ThursdayTraining: National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) - Prejudice Reduction Model; Chancel-lor’s Diversity Education Program, 8 a.m.–noon, Human Resources Building (Personnel) Suite I. Free. Information: www.humanresources.ucr.
edu/ed.
Reading: Michael Jaime-Becerra Debuts “This Time Tomorrow,” 2–4 p.m., UCR Campus Store. Free. Information: www.book-
store.ucr.edu.
Colloquium: Daniel Sternheimer- Keio University, “Deforma-tions, Quantizations, and the Geometry of Space-time: An Introductory Overview,” 3:40–5 p.m., Surge Building 284. Free. Information: www.mathdept.ucr.edu.
Campus Activity: “Journey To a Hate-Free Millen-nium” Screening and Dialogue, 6–7:30 p.m., HUB 268. Free. Information: www.out.ucr.edu.
Performance: “Vagina Monologues,” 7–9 p.m., HUB 302. 12 pre-sale tickets; $15 at the door; $5 parking per car, Lot 1. The performance runs again on March 2. Information: www.wrc.ucr.edu.
Performance: “Marriage of Figaro,” a play by Beaumarchais, 8–10 p.m., Studio Theatre, ARTS 113. $14 general, $12 students/seniors. The performance runs through March 6. Information: www.theatre.ucr.edu.
Campus Activity: Mosaic’s Utterly Sophisticated Literary Salon and Open Mic Night, 8:30–10:30 p.m., The Barn. Free. Information: www.rside.ucr.
edu/barnseries/
Lecture: Fatima Badry, “Appropriating the Global: English in Identity Construction in the UAE,” 11:30a.m.–2:15 p.m., INTS 1111. Free, only 75 seats available. Information: www.globalstudies.
ucr.edu.
Lecture: Prue Talbot, “Unleashing the Potential of Stem Cells.” Noon, Graduate Club Room, UCR Palm Desert. Free. Information: www.ucrgift.org. Registration: (951) 827-6186.
26 FridayConference: Philosophy Annual Conference, “Sav-ing the Sacred in a Secular Age,” 10 a.m.–9:30 p.m., INTS 1113. Free. Information: www.philosophy.ucr.edu.
27 SaturdayScreening: Movie and Queer People of Color Panel, 7:30–9:30 p.m., HUB 260. Free. Information: www.well.ucr.edu.
28 SundayEnrichment: An Introduction to Digital Scrapbook-ing, 6–9 p.m., UCR Extension Center. $155. Information: www.extension.ucr.edu.
March
1 MondayColloquium: Fanny Price: “Is she solemn?—Is she queer?—Is she prudish?” 12:30–2 p.m., HMNSS 2212. Free. Information: www.english.ucr.edu.
Seminar: A Year of New Resolutions: Gaining a New Perspective on Life, 5–6 p.m., HUB 265. Free. Information: www.well.ucr.edu.
Training: From Self-Respect to Self-Defense, 6–8 p.m., Costo Hall Lower Level. Free. Information: www.wrc.ucr.edu.
2 TuesdayConcert: UCR Taiko Ensem-ble: Japanese Drumming, noon, ARTS Amphitheatre Steps. Free. Information: www.music.ucr.edu.
Reception: Celebration for a Day of Appreciation and Recognition of Women Students, 5–7 p.m., HUB 355. Free. Information: www.wrc.edu.
3 WednesdayConcert: Wed@Noon; UCR Composers Collec-tive - Laptop Orchestra, 12:10-1 p.m., Music Rehearsal Hall, ARTS 157. Free. Information: www.music.ucr.edu.
4 ThursdayPerformance: UCR is Dancing 2010, 8-9:30 p.m., UV Humanities 400. $10.50 general, $8.50 students, seniors and children. The performance runs through March 6. Information: www.dance.ucr.edu.
Concert: Student Musician’s Association, free Rock & Hip Hop Show, 8:30-10:30 p.m., The Barn. Free. Information: www.rside.ucr.edu/
barnseries.
5 FridayConcert: UCR Jazz Ensemble & Highlander Concert Band, 8-9:30 p.m., Performance Lab, ARTS 166. $10 general, $8 students/seniors, $6 children. Information: www.music.ucr.edu.
Conference: Re-Imagining American Religions; A Conversation on New World Cultures through the 21st Century, 10 a.m.-noon, INTS 1113. Free. Information: www.religiousstudies.ucr.edu.
8 MondayPerformance: Dance Showings; Winter 2010, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., ARTS 100, ARTS 300 and PE 102. Free. The performance runs through March 12. Information: www.dance.ucr.edu.
How would you rescue a wet cell phone? Does music affect your driving speed? Does sleep deprivation affect your IQ? Are bigger magnets also stronger magnets? And does sound affect the way tomato hornworm cat-erpillars eat?
More than 275 K-12 students from near-ly 25 local schools answered these and other questions at the 21st annual Science and Engineering Fair on campus Feb. 16-18.
A hands-on competition designed to cap-ture the interest of young people, the fair has in past years inspired students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
This year, the students presented nearly 260 innovative projects at the fair, which UCR hosted in partnership with the River-side Unifi ed School District (RUSD). The fair took place at the Pentland Hills Bear Cave on campus.
During the fi rst two days, students set up their projects; UCR researchers and RUSD volunteers judged the competition.
“Every year the fair gets better and bet-
ter,” said Thomas O. Baldwin, the dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sci-ences (CNAS). “What these young people are able to achieve is remarkable, and shows the excellent education they are receiving in science and math. Our faculty and gradu-ate students enjoy judging the entries, and our departments enjoy providing prizes for the winners. This is indeed fun!”
The Bourns College of Engineering co-hosted the event with CNAS. Researchers at the College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research and Technology worked with students on their projects.
“It is always gratifying to observe the creativity and the energy of the participat-ing students as they apply what they have learned to real-world problems,” said Reza Abbaschian, the dean of the Bourns College of Engineering.
“These future scientists and engineers represent the promise for our future, and we’re pleased to host them and encourage their pursuit of new knowledge.”
UCR Co-hosts Annual District Science Fair
Following extensive remodeling, the Geology Building was reopened on Feb. 13 with a cer-
emonial ribbon cutting sponsored by the Department of Earth Sciences. Participating in the
ceremony were (left to right) Layne Arthur, a representative from contractor Barnhart Inc.;
Pam Touschner, from architect WWCOT; Tom Baldwin, dean of CNAS; Mary Droser, chair
of earth sciences; Chancellor Timothy P. White; Mike Gardner, Riverside councilmember;
Don Caskey, campus architect and associate vice chancellor of design and construction; and
Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge. Partially visible behind Baldwin are earth sciences alumnus
Bob Gaines (Ph.D. ‘03) and current student Monica Galaviz. About 200 alumni attended the