Gifts & Grants

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

Stacy Copp receives award from National Institutes of Health

Recognition spotlights UC Irvine researcher’s nanomaterials advances

Phillip Felgner

UC Irvine receives initial $33 million in federal support for vaccine research

Philip Felgner to lead multi-institutional pandemic planning effort

Dr. Roger Mah (son), Dr. Robert A. Mah, Dr. Adeline Yen Mah, Chancellor Howard Gillman, Lucy Mah-Klein (granddaughter) and Christopher Klein (son-in-law), from left to right, participate at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building on April 24, 2023.

Adeline and Robert Mah donate another $20 million toward Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building

Gift to advance molecular innovation, vaccine development centers

UC Irvine grad student training program aims to broaden access to cardiovascular care

New NSF-funded initiative emphasizes technological solutions to health disparities

Man and woman in a lab.

School of Medicine awarded $1.5 million suicide prevention grant

Identification of blood-based biomarkers may predict risk to help save lives