Jeff Johnston named UCI Lecturer of the Year
The Council on Student Experience and the Division of Undergraduate Education recently selected Jeff Johnston as UCI’s 2015 Lecturer of the Year.
June 02, 2015
Briefs
ICS dean will help lead national effort to improve criminal evidence analysis, cut wrongful convictions
Hal Stern, dean of the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences and professor of statistics, will help lead a new national Forensic Science Center of Excellence.
May 27, 2015
11 physical sciences students earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Nine students from the Department of Chemistry and two from the Department of Earth System Science have earned graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. An equal number received honorable mentions.
May 22, 2015
NIH funding will support graduate students in 'gateway' year of systems biology Ph.D. program
The National Institutes of Health has awarded UCI $1.2 million to fund graduate students in the mathematical & computational biology “gateway” year into the Ph.D. program.
May 21, 2015
Chemist Jennifer Prescher receives prestigious $75,000 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Jennifer Prescher, assistant professor of chemistry at UCI, is one of 13 researchers to win a 2015 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, which supports young faculty who’ve demonstrated outstanding commitment to research and education in the chemical sciences.
May 21, 2015
Actress Laverne Cox inspires at New Narratives event
Laverne Cox, a daytime Emmy winner and one of Time 100’s most influential people of 2015, appeared at UCI’s Crystal Cove Auditorium on Tuesday, May 12, in front of an audience of about 450 Anteaters.
May 14, 2015
Anteaters in the outfield
Nearly 5,000 Anteaters filled the right-field seats at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Saturday, May 9, wearing blue-and-gold, limited-edition baseball caps for “UCI Night with the Angels.”
May 11, 2015
Engineering professor awarded prestigious Early Career Research grant from Department of Energy
Timothy Rupert, assistant professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering, has been awarded an Early Career Research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
May 08, 2015
UCI study finds link between acute stress response to disaster and previous exposure to traumatic events
Psychology & social behavior professor Roxane Cohen Silver’s work sheds light on human resilience after natural disasters and terrorist attacks. Her latest study, co-authored with doctoral graduate in psychology & social behavior Dana Garfin and associate professor of nursing science E. Alison Holman, examines the relationship between acute stress responses to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings […]
May 06, 2015
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.
May 05, 2015