Gifts

UCI professor emeritus of history makes legacy gift to support graduate students

UCI professor emeritus of history James Given and his wife Ruth have created a $500,000 endowment for UCI’s Department of History, to be paid from their estate after both have passed. The gift will enable history graduate students to conduct dissertation research domestically or internationally and to present their research at conferences. “We are incredibly grateful […]

UCI School of Education will launch regional K-12 Teacher Academy with $300,000 gift

In celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Day on May 8, the School of Education announced a $300,000 gift from SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union to launch a K-12 professional development Teacher Academy that will benefit thousands of Southern California educators and the students they serve. “The Teacher Academy is envisioned as a national model for state-of-the-art […]

Second annual UCI Giving Day more than doubles last year’s total

Anteater community raises over $4 million to support programs, projects

UCI receives $2.4 million gift from estate of former faculty member Christian Werner

Donation will support graduate student research, scholarship in social sciences

Nancy Guerra, social ecology dean

School of Social Ecology receives $1 million from estate of founding faculty member

Gift endows Carol Kupers Whalen Fund, which supports students and faculty research

Leila Safavi-Tehrani

Ingenuity Central

UCI Applied Innovation smooths the way for Anteater research to become commercial products and benefit society

Ten new trustees appointed to UCI Foundation board

Experienced leaders will guide campus efforts to raise, manage private funds

Exquisite, long-hidden Buck art collection comes to UCI

An exquisite but long hidden collection of California art was given to UCI by the trust of Gerald Buck, a Newport Beach developer and art aficionado who passed away in 2013. Consisting of over 3,200 original works of art, the Buck Collection provides a uniquely comprehensive vision of art styles across many media. The Collection […]

Center for Persian studies gets $87,000 donation

The Payravi family has made an $87,000 donation in memory of Ali-Asghar Payravi to the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture. The gift will fund five conferences and publications on ancient Iranian history and civilization. “I am incredibly grateful to the Payravi family, steadfast supporters of UC Irvine and the promotion of Iranian […]

Pew Innovation Fund awards $200,000 to UCI biochemist Andrej Luptak

Andrej Luptak, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry, was awarded a $200,000 grant through the Pew Charitable Trusts’ 2017 Pew Innovation Fund. For the past 30 years, Pew has supported over 900 early career researchers. The new Innovation Fund provides a funding opportunity for scientists from different disciplines to collaborate […]