Estée Lauder endowment will establish epigenetics fellowship at UCI

Award honors late professor-researcher Paolo Sassone-Corsi and his groundbreaking work

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Four graduate students are 2021-2022 Public Impact Distinguished Fellows

Out of 51 total applications from graduate students, 14 finalists were selected to compete for the four 2021-2022 Public Impact Distinguished Fellowships, each with a $12,000 award. The remaining 10 finalists are Public Impact Fellows and receive $1,000 in fellowship funding. Public Impact Fellowships highlight and support Ph.D. or MFA students whose current research has […]

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Fellowships help duo focus on finishing dissertations

American Association of University Women provides $20,000 each to UCI students Allison Dziuba and Zayda Sorrell-Medina

Photo of two UCI graduate students who received AAUW fellowships.

Two UCI graduate students earn prestigious AAUW fellowships

Support allows students to commit their full focus to the pursuit of their Ph.D.s

UCI’s Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History & Archaeology of Ancient Iran

Grant establishes endowment for doctoral fellowships in Iranian studies

Support further distinguishes UCI as destination for scholars of ancient and modern Iran

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5 junior faculty awarded $50,000 Hellman Fellowships

Five assistant professors at the University of California, Irvine will receive $50,000 Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 53 UCI Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund established the program here. The 2019-20 awardees, representing a cross-section of disciplines, are: “Each […]

Six junior faculty awarded Hellman Fellowships

Six UCI assistant professors have been awarded Hellman Fellowships, created to help promising junior faculty realize their full scientific and academic potential. Forty Hellman Fellowships have been bestowed at UCI since 2013, when the campus program was established with a gift of $1.25 million from the Hellman Family Foundation. “These worthy recipients represent some of […]

5 students awarded Global Food Initiative fellowships

Five UC Irvine students have been awarded $2,500 fellowships to fund research and related projects that focus on food issues. They’re among 54 University of California students receiving support from the UC president’s Global Food Initiative Student Fellowship Program.

Anandkumar gets ‘early-career’ Sloan Research Fellowship for her work in machine learning

Anima Anandkumar, assistant professor of electrical engineering & computer science in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, has been awarded a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship for her work at the interface of theory and practice of large-scale machine learning and high-dimensional statistics.

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Fellowship winner is engineering a better future

Doctoral candidate gauges infrastructure vulnerability to natural disasters.