Briefs

Grant will fund anthropologist’s innovative study of fire prevention, mitigation methods

To help improve fire prevention policies, Salvador Zarate, UCI assistant professor of anthropology, will use a $12,000 faculty fellowship from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to document the practices of Orange County weed abatement crews. “We experienced our worst fire season ever this year, and we can tap into the deep ecological […]

Alumni couple create scholarship endowment at UCI’s Center for Critical Korean Studies

Carol Choi ’85 and Eugene Choi ’86, MBA ’01, have pledged $100,000 to create an endowment at UCI’s Center for Critical Korean Studies. Undergraduate students majoring in Korean studies and other qualified students with demonstrated interest will be provided with scholarships. Through its Brilliant Future Scholarship Match Opportunity, UCI will double the gift, matching endowment […]

Humanities dean Tyrus Miller establishes endowment for distinguished lecture series

Tyrus Miller, dean of the School of Humanities, has pledged $60,000 to establish a new endowment for a distinguished lecture series. The school regularly hosts conversations around today’s grand challenges, ranging from environmental change to advances in medicine and biology and the evolution of powerful new technologies. The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series will feature events […]

Megan Peters receives TWCO grant to help consciousness researchers secure funding

Megan Peters, associate professor of cognitive sciences, has received a three-year, $234,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Organization to enhance and accelerate National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation funding opportunities for consciousness researchers. “This is a complex concept and writing a compelling proposal can be challenging,” Peters says. The project will involve […]

Gates Foundation grant funds study of factors that prompt youth interest in certain careers

June Ahn, associate professor of education, has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct a study identifying factors that motivate youth toward occupational careers. Ahn and his team will be working with K-12 after-school program educators and participants to gain an understanding of the key experiences that shape […]

UCI professor co-authors study finding ‘political sectarianism’ in America today

Peter Ditto, UCI professor of psychological science, is among the co-authors of a study – published in the journal Science – that describes the bitter polarization between the nation’s Republican and Democratic parties as “political sectarianism.” The project involved a team of political science, psychology, sociology, economics and communication experts who reviewed a broad survey […]

UCI is charter member of SEA Change to promote diversity in STEM

UCI is a charter members of SEA Change – the initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to support colleges and universities as they systematically transform themselves into diverse, equitable and inclusive institutions. SEA Change, short for STEMM Equity Achievement, supports institutions as they undergo a rigorous self-assessment process to interrogate their […]

UCI researchers say cascading traumas tax coping skills, endanger most vulnerable

Commentary appears online in the journal Nature Human Behaviour

Distinguished Professor named co-PI for IES grant to analyze special education services

George Farkas, UCI Distinguished Professor of education, has been named co-PI for a two-year, $500,000 Institute of Education Sciences grant that will analyze special education services. The team will examine data from the 1998 and 2011 Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies, as well as seven National Assessment of Education Progress reports dating back to 2003. In […]

School of Humanities receives $1.5 million grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The UCI School of Humanities has received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to introduce graduate students to a broad range of possible careers that employ their expertise. The grant will fund 19 community-based summer internships for Ph.D. students, three graduate student researchers who will work with a STEM faculty […]