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Facing sweeping cuts in funding, last year's ASUCR senate removed $3,000 in finances from the campus LGBT Resource Center. The move failed to be communicated to the center and to many members of the then incoming, now current, student senate. That the finances, which were used in the past to send a number of students to the annual Western Regional Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Queer, Intersex and Allies (LGBTQIA) College Conference, were gone did not come to light until late in the fall quarter.… 1 Comment

A managing director has been chosen to lead the Southern California Research Institute for Solar Energy (SC-RISE). Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales, who earned his B.S. degree, his master's degree and Ph.D from UC Riverside, was appointed by Faculty Director Matt Barth, and will be responsible for the daily operation of the initiative and ensuring that its goals are met.… Post the First Comment

Dr. Beate Ritz, professor of epidemiology at UCLA, along with other researchers from UCLA and the Danish Cancer Society, has discovered that the same type of medication that is used to treat patients with conditions such as abnormal heart rhythms, angina and hypertension can also be used to decrease the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.… Post the First Comment

For most people, philosophy and mathematics are opposites; the idea of studying them relationally would be out of the question. For UC Riverside's Associate Professor of Philosophy Erich Reck, however, this is not the case. He was recently awarded a $142, 922 grant from the National Science Foundation to study this relationship, alongside Richard Dedekind, who pioneered the study of this relationship.… Post the First Comment

UC Riverside professor of computer science Michalis Faloutsos has received a $1.5 million grant as part of a new initiative by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The project, which has already enlisted the aid of 30 other university and industrial labs, aims at analyzing network systems to better predict their development.… 1 Comment

* UC San Diego - The athletic department has put plans for a football team on hold until at least fall of 2010, opting instead to overhaul the department-a move that would make UCSD a D-I school. ASUCSD President Ustav Gupta met with Director of Athletics Earl Edwards, and determined that the Athletics Department $20 referendum would not appear on the spring election ballot, and would fall under the voting power of the 2010-2011 council.… Post the First Comment