Education

UC Riverside has started a program that will train students to deal with farming problems caused by global warming Plants-3D “will train students to discover, design, and deploy biology and engineering solutions to the projected problem of massive-scale food insecurity due to climate change,” according to a statement on the …

San Bernardino County students have again shown year-over-year improvement in English language arts and math testing. Students in seven grades – three through eight and 11 – improved by one percentage point in those categories during the 2018-19 academic year, according to the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress. …

UC Riverside has broken ground on the first phase of a 6,000-bed housing development for students. The university is developing the project with American Campus Communities in Austin, Texas, a developer, manager and owner of high-end student housing communities, according to a statement. The project will be the second American …

The San Bernardino Community College District will move several departments into a building at 550 E. Hospitality Lane. Several offices will occupy the second floor of the three-story building, including business services, human resources, facilities planning, public affairs, technology, research planning, and the chancellor’s office, according to a statement. The …

Cal State San Bernardino is accepting applications for its new Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation program. That program, scheduled to start next fall, will offer students with business, technical or other non-business degrees courses that prepare them to begin business ventures in large organizations, according to a statement. …

Norco College has been awarded a $2.7 million grant that it will use to improve the completion rates of it Hispanic students. The Project Paces grant, which will be spent during the next five years, comes from Title V of the 1998 Higher Education Act, which helps some colleges and …