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UCI rates as top-producing school for prestigious international exchange program

Amy Gerstler, professor of English, has been named a 2018 Guggenheim fellow in poetry. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s board of trustees granted 173 of the prestigious awards out of nearly 3,000 applicants. As a Guggenheim fellow, Gerstler will write a hybrid poetry/literature book that explores the idea of the feminine epic. “One of […]

Edward Dimendberg, professor of humanities and European languages & studies, has been named a 2018 Guggenheim fellow in architecture planning and design. The prestigious award is one of 173 granted by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s board of trustees out of nearly 3,000 applications. Dimendberg’s scholarly work centers on architecture and urbanism. As a […]

Frances Leslie, vice provost and dean for graduate studies at UCI, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2018 Lifetime Legacy Award from Orange County Connected Women of Influence. The award recognizes women who have demonstrated superior leadership over several years and who have a significant track record of long-term achievements in their field. Leslie […]

The School of Social Sciences’ graduate program in logic & philosophy of science and the School of Humanities’ graduate program in philosophy have done well in the 2017-18 Philosophical Gourmet Report, which assesses the quality and reputation of Ph.D. programs in philosophy throughout the English-speaking world. The PGR provides both overall and specialty rankings based […]

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Xiangmin Xu, UCI associate professor of anatomy & neurobiology, a five-year, $2.5 million grant to study new neural circuit pathways in a region of the brain associated with learning and memory and epilepsy. He shares the grant with Douglas Arthur Nitz of UC San Diego. The proposed research […]

EVENT:  Is Hamlet guilty of first-degree murder for killing Polonius in his mother’s bedroom? Join us for an exciting mock trial to decide Hamlet’s fate. Hamlet’s lawyer, Song Richardson, dean of UCI’s School of Law, will defend the prince. The prosecutor, Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of UCI Law, and dean, Berkeley Law, will argue that […]

Jennifer B. Kane, UCI assistant professor of sociology, has been named a 2018 Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of her exceptional research as an early career scientist. She specializes in applying quantitative methods in the analysis of social inequality, population health, family, fertility and the inter-generational transmission of health and […]

US-UK consortium to test use of antineutrino detector in monitoring reactors