UC Riverside Graduate Part of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Team at Los Angeles Times

“In the newsroom, I heard a bunch of cheering,” he said this week, after the Pulitzer prizes were announced. “I was on deadline, so I’m sort of ignoring it, writing in between bites of some tacos I’d brought in. But finally I decide to walk over, and at that moment they took a photo. So now there’s a picture of me standing right behind the Editor in Chief as he announces the prize,” he said.

At Crafton Hills College, happiness comes from doing what you love

Emile Diaz de Leon, 34, is proud of what his parents achieved at the university. His mother earned her Ph.D. at the early age of 19 from the University of Cambridge in England. His father graduated from Stanford University in Northern California. For their son, they dreamed of NASA or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. When he chose more hands-on work to support his wife and children, first in a Borax mine and then as a volunteer firefighter, like many parents in the U.S., Emile’s parents pushed back. They argued for a four year school and told him he would be wasting his potential if he pursued firefighting as a career.

SBCCD’s 3D Printers Help Hospitals Slow COVID-19 Spread

Like many of us these days, 21-year-old Juan Zavala spends a lot of time alone in a room. Luckily for local hospitals, his room contains 19 industrial-grade 3D printers. As of Tuesday night, he had printed 422 medical quality face shields in the MakerSpace lab at the San Bernardino Community College District, for a world with a shortage of personal protective equipment, or “PPE.” These face shields are gifts for local hospitals: Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, Mountains Community Hospital in Lake Arrowhead. They have also given face shields to the campus police department, and to Providence Healthcare Group, which operates about ten skilled nursing facilities locally.

A Word of Praise from the Under Secretary of Education: Clone UC Riverside

He noted UCR’s graduation parity. Students from all incomes and ethnic backgrounds graduate at approximately the same rate. And UCR’s graduation rates are better than the national average in every category. He looked at the audience of staff, faculty, and community members in the Highlander Union Building, and proclaimed, “That is extraordinary work. Those are extraordinary outcomes. Those are numbers to be proud of.”