Gifts & Grants

From left: Henry Samueli, Hoang Nhu and UC Irvine Dean Magnus Egerstedt.

Tech entrepreneur and family make transformational pledge to Samueli School of Engineering

Gift names the Hoang Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Ann Quilter (lower left) joined here by family members (from left) Chris, Charles, Patrick, Patty and Matt Quilter.

$80 million in donations propels UCI MIND toward world-class center focused on dementia

Lead gift from Quilter family anchors campaign for new home for research and treatment

UC Irvine Student Center

Reaching a Brilliant Future

UC Irvine’s audacious fundraising campaign exceeds its goal as higher education institutions face new challenges

Jimmy and Sheila Peterson, UC Irvine Foundation Trustees and Brilliant Future Campaign Co-Chairs

Guiding Stewards

Q&A with Jimmy and Sheila Peterson, UC Irvine Foundation Trustees and Brilliant Future Campaign co-chairs

Jun Wu, UC Irvine professor of environmental and occupational health

UC Irvine wins NIH grant to study environmental impacts on maternal, child mental health

Research will explore effects of exposure to heat waves, wildfire smoke in Southern California

Designing materials for next-generation propulsion systems

UC Irvine researchers awarded multidisciplinary $2 million grant investigating materials for rotating detonation engines

Leslie M. Thompson, Donald Bren Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior and Neurobiology & Behavior at UC Irvine.

CIRM awards UC Irvine neuroscientist another $2 million for Huntington's disease research

Goal is to determine why the fatal condition destroys some brain cells but spares others

Brilliant Future campaign raises over $2.4 billion for UC Irvine

Largest fundraising effort in O.C. history fuels innovation and impact

Wen Public Health receives $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Environmental toxicology researcher to unlock how early development shapes health

Zhongping Chen, UC Irvine professor of biomedical engineering

UC Irvine team receives $3 million NIH award for revolutionary deep tissue imaging

Funding backs four-university research effort to solve perennial issue of light scattering