Gifts & Grants

Grad students facing financial hardships due to COVID-19 get both funding and a chance to learn new skills

Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA to explore intersections of art and science

Funds will support student learning and research in quantum science

Gift will support art history students, create ICS center promoting inclusiveness

The Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and the Division of Undergraduate Education are pleased to announce the first prestigious scholarship recipient for 2021. Malak Kudaimi, UCI alumna and staff member, has been named a Marshall Scholar for 2021-22. Kudaimi is the third UCI student to receive the award, following Kelly Maglia […]

To help improve fire prevention policies, Salvador Zarate, UCI assistant professor of anthropology, will use a $12,000 faculty fellowship from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to document the practices of Orange County weed abatement crews. “We experienced our worst fire season ever this year, and we can tap into the deep ecological […]

Carol Choi ’85 and Eugene Choi ’86, MBA ’01, have pledged $100,000 to create an endowment at UCI’s Center for Critical Korean Studies. Undergraduate students majoring in Korean studies and other qualified students with demonstrated interest will be provided with scholarships. Through its Brilliant Future Scholarship Match Opportunity, UCI will double the gift, matching endowment […]

Calit2 to develop wireless platforms to promote sustainable factory processes

Tyrus Miller, dean of the School of Humanities, has pledged $60,000 to establish a new endowment for a distinguished lecture series. The school regularly hosts conversations around today’s grand challenges, ranging from environmental change to advances in medicine and biology and the evolution of powerful new technologies. The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series will feature events […]

Megan Peters, associate professor of cognitive sciences, has received a three-year, $234,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Organization to enhance and accelerate National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation funding opportunities for consciousness researchers. “This is a complex concept and writing a compelling proposal can be challenging,” Peters says. The project will involve […]