UCI Esports receives $50,000 gift from top video game streamer Pokimane
Donation will establish program’s first endowment for student scholarships
February 13, 2020
Gifts
Stacey Nicholas donates $5 million to UCI in support of diversity and inclusiveness
Gift will aid recruitment, retention, graduation of underrepresented STEM students
February 10, 2020
UCI campaign will forge a brilliant future together
Extraordinary things are happening at UCI. From our lecture halls and research labs to our operating rooms and performance halls, we’re forging new paths and creating greater possibilities that move the entire world forward. Join us as we continue to explore the uncharted and make the impossible possible. We’re committed to creating a brighter future. […]
October 04, 2019
Fredric Jameson donates personal, professional papers to UCI Libraries
Collection details the scholar’s illustrious career in critical theory
September 13, 2019
Donation from gamer funds new scholarship esports team for ‘Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’
UCI Esports will host a pilot scholarship team for “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” during the 2019-20 academic year – thanks to a $50,000 gift from the owners of Street Media, which publishes Irvine Weekly and LA Weekly, led by CEO (and gamer) Brian Calle. Players will be jointly selected by UCI Esports and the TAG Smash […]
August 08, 2019
UCI institute receives $1 million Prentiss Foundation gift to expand salivary research
Study explores alternative to blood draws in monitoring patients’ lithium levels
July 08, 2019
In honor of the Beall family’s support, the campus’s entrepreneurial and innovation platform to be renamed UCI Beall Applied Innovation
Irvine, Calif., May 23, 2019 — The University of California, Irvine has received a multimillion-dollar gift from The Beall Family Foundation, led by Donald R. and Joan F. Beall. The largest portion of the gift will go to the campus’s entrepreneurial and innovation platform, UCI Applied Innovation, which will be renamed UCI Beall Applied Innovation. […]
May 23, 2019
Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture receives $50,000 gift
Dr. Farzan M. Naeim and Dr. Hooshang Meshkinpour have donated $50,000 to create an endowed fund in the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture. The gift will advance the mission of the center through supporting lectures, conferences and other programs associated with the Iranian world. “Drs. Naeim and Meshkinpour have been supporters of […]
May 21, 2019
Anneeth Kaur Hundle appointed to UCI endowed chair in Sikh studies
Faculty position established with $1.5 million gift from Drs. Harvinder and Asha Sahota
January 30, 2019
$2 million from Pacific Life will support UCI’s LIFEvest financial literacy program for teens
The Paul Merage School of Business Center for Investment & Wealth Management’s residential financial literacy program for teens, LIFEvest, has received a $2 million gift from the Pacific Life Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Newport Beach-based insurance company. During the weeklong LIFEvest summer program, local eighth- and ninth-graders from underserved communities have the opportunity […]
January 29, 2019