News

• UCR Engineer Invited by National Academy of Engineering to Speak at Its Symposium
  Mihri Ozkan has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to speak at the 2008 Frontiers of Engineering symposium to be held in Albuquerque, NM, Sept. 18-20.
• Arts Building Will Be Down Until Mid-August
  The clean-up and restoration of the Arts building continues after a flood and electrical outage June 23 caused major damage to the basements of two buildings. Arts staff and faculty are working from temporary quarters in the CHASS Interdisciplinary building. Classes have been relocated. Student affairs staff who evacuated the basement of Hinderaker Hall have moved to locations in the Commons and in Costo Hall, and are likely to stay there.
• UCR Science Program Gets Literary
  UCR's Copernicus Project is pulling double-duty this year as it combines science experiments with an emphasis on literacy at the Science Summer Institute. An estimated 160 K-12 teachers will be participating in this year's program July 7 through 18 at the UCR Extension Center on University Ave.
• New Supercomputer at UCR Greatly Speeds Up Research in Computational Biology
  Experiments that once might have required 256 days of computer time on a personal computer can now be performed in just one day thanks to a new supercomputer the campus has acquired. Named Biocluster, the supercomputer, purchased by the Bioinformatics Facility of the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, is now the most powerful supercomputer at UCR.
• Endowed Scholarship Honors Grey
  UC Riverside must say goodbye to acting chancellor Robert Grey and his wife, Kathleen, but they are leaving a legacy behind.

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