Education

Andrea Kristell Medrano is a first-gen third-year student who won the Hannah J. Caldwell Endowed Student Award for Undergraduate Studies and the Humanities Associates Endowment for the International Center for Writing and Translation award.

Bilingual booster

First-gen senior majoring in both education sciences and Spanish hopes to become an academic counselor in low-income communities

David Liu, a Ph.D. student in UCI’s School of Education, stands in front of El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana.

Pathway to a Ph.D.

Doctoral candidate David Liu faces the final hurdle: the dreaded dissertation defense

Funding the Future

UCI campaign seeks to boost trailblazing research, student scholarships, healthcare advances and cultural endeavors

UCI receives NSF grant to create and test interactive videos to foster children’s science learning

Conversational agent will be incorporated into a pilot study on a new PBS KIDS animated program

Building a better bot

An interdisciplinary UCI team is improving assistive robotic technology for homebound children, limited-mobility adults

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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 […]

Negative experiences at dentist much more common for low-income, nonwhite children

Findings of UCI study suggest that providers, staff play role in oral healthcare use

Education professor honored for contributions to public policy, practice in child development

Deborah Lowe Vandell, UCI professor of education, has been named the winner of the Society for Research in Child Development’s 2019 award for distinguished contributions to public policy and practice in child development. Recognized for her decades-long career dedicated to helping policymakers and program developers come to evidence-based decisions about how early caregiving, particularly by […]

UCI’s graduate programs shine in U.S. News & World Report rankings

UCI’s doctoral programs once again shined in U.S. News & World Report’s annual graduate school rankings – published online on March 12. In just its fifth year of eligibility, the UCI School of Law ranks seventh among public universities and 23rd overall. In addition, it’s third among publics for clinical training (seventh overall) and third […]

Child poverty could be cut in half with proposals by UCI-led national panel

Committee provides a menu of work-oriented and income support programs