Gifts & Grants

Donation from SAP establishes new UC Irvine endowed chair in artificial intelligence

Funding will support education, research and industry collaboration around AI

$1 million endowment aspires to build musical bridges

Gift from Jong Sup Kim Family Endowment will support the music department

Pharmaceutical Sciences Lauren Albrecht lab with Lauren Albrecht, (far left) assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and colleagues.

UC Irvine assistant professor Lauren Albrecht named 2025 Sloan Foundation Research Fellow

Accomplished early-career pharmaceutical scientist recognized as next-generation leader

Left to right: Anne Marie Clemons-Thomas, V. Gordon Clemons Jr., M.B.A. ’04, and Marie Clemons stand in front of the Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building, which will feature a terrace named after their family foundation.

Clemons Family Foundation donates $11 million to support advanced cancer research

Gift will also aid medical innovation building construction and UCI Health – Irvine

Steve Borowski ’79 (center) is flanked by (from left) daughter Kelsey, daughter Kimberley, Kim’s dog Scout, granddaughter Harper, wife Linda, grandson Colton, daughter Christie, granddaughter Kate, granddaughter Kinley and son-in-law Justin.

$5 million gift from alumnus and wife to transform future of UC Irvine baseball

Support will create state-of-the-art Borowski Family Player Development Center

Alec Glasser

OC philanthropist and businessman’s donation supports visionary School of Social Ecology initiative

Gift ensures future of Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change

Won awarded $6 million Department of Defense research grant

Multidisciplinary initiative to investigate thermal energy technologies

photo of Derek Dunn-Rankin and Pheather R. Harris

UC Irvine to lead next phase of UC’s California Alliance for Minority Participation

National Science Foundation awards $2.5 million for longtime STEM initiative

Dr. Federico Vaca

NIH to support UC Irvine research on reducing alcohol-influenced crash injuries

Dr. Federico Vaca will lead effort to identify risk factors among young drivers

Woman looking out

Dawn Bounds receives NIDA grant to test traumatized youth intervention program

GRIT helps adolescents and families develop resilience to adverse childhood events