Director of UCI’s California Alliance for Minority Participation appointed to national board
Pheather R. Harris named president-elect of National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates
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UCLA and UCI create novel center that addresses cardiovascular disease among LAC and OC minority communities
Center will also fund pilot projects for community organizations and train underrepresented postdoctoral fellows and young investigators
The shocking prevalence of COVID-19 in Orange County minority communities
Black Voice News (CalMatters), Nov. 12, 2020
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UCI is ranked No. 3 for largest percentage jump in underrepresented minority students
UCI is ranked No. 3 by The Chronicle of Higher Education among public doctorate-awarding institutions with the largest increases in percentage of underrepresented minorities in the student body. The campus is also the only member of the prestigious Association of American Universities in the top 10. The 62-member AAU comprises the country’s leading research institutions. […]
4 students in Minority Science Programs snag research awards at annual meeting of AAAS
Four UCI undergraduates participating in the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences’ Minority Science Programs received awards for their research presentations in the poster competition at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences’ 2017 annual meeting, in Boston. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society. The research poster competition is open to undergraduate and […]
Four Minority Science Programs students snag awards for their research presentations at AAAS competition
Four University of California, Irvine undergraduates participating in the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences Minority Science Programs received awards for their research presentations at the poster competition of the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in Washington D.C. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society. […]
Minority children underrepresented in special ed, UCI-Penn State study concludes
Contrary to popular belief, minority children are not overrepresented in special education classrooms and are actually less likely to be diagnosed with and treated for disabilities than white children with similar academic achievements, behaviors and economic resources, according to new research co-authored by George Farkas, professor of education at UC Irvine.
UCI gets $1.25 million NASA grant to create research opportunities for Cal State L.A. minority students
NASA has awarded UCI $1.25 million as part of a new $5 million center at Cal State Los Angeles for STEM education, with an emphasis on minority students in areas such as climate change, hydrology, computational physics and data science.