2022 Year in Review – Phenomenal faculty
A year of groundbreaking growth and accomplishments
This year, UCI faculty continued to distinguish themselves and earn the recognition of national academic communities. Among them, two professors were named as fellows of the National Academy of Sciences; four were elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; one was selected as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow; and one was chosen as a Guggenheim Fellow.
A UCI astrophysicist was chair of the James Webb Space Telescope Users Committee, and one professor won a prestigious Robert Koch Prize for groundbreaking contributions to the creation of mRNA vaccines. Seven more university researchers became fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, making the new campus total 192. UCI’s educators continue to prove themselves lifelong learners, creating a community of faculty scholars imparting knowledge to the student scholars.
Here are a few highlights:
- National Academy of Sciences names two UCI faculty members as fellows
- National Academy of Engineers names two UCI professors as new members
- Vision visionary: UCI’s acclaimed Donald Bren Professor of Ophthalmology, Kris Palczewski, is blazing a trail of innovative research
- Dele Ogunseitan appointed to WHO Committee to address public health and emergency response
- Four professors elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- UCI professor wins prestigious Robert Koch Prize for groundbreaking research: Philip Felgner shares annual award for contributions to creation of mRNA vaccines
- UCI’s Michael Méndez is named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
- UCI’s Bruce Yonemoto is named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation names 3 UCI faculty as 2022 Sloan Research Fellows
- 7 UCI researchers are elected AAAS fellows, giving campus total of 192
- Seven UCI faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2022-23
- Sixteen faculty members have been named to the Highly Cited Researchers list for 2022
- Five faculty members were included in Research.com’s ranking of the top 1,000 female scientists in the world
- Exploring vast galaxies: Three questions with UCI astrophysicist James Bullock, recent chair of the James Webb Space Telescope Users Committee
- UCI’s Oswald Steward to serve as president of Society for Neuroscience
- National Academy of Medicine elects Bruce Tromberg
- Roxane Cohen Silver and Alison Holman win Innovation Award
