Gifts & Grants

Fariborz Maseeh, founder of the Massiah Foundation

Massiah Foundation challenge gift to fund UCI chair in Zoroastrian studies

$1.5 million endowment will establish first chair of its kind in the U.S.

UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge goes virtual for 2020

Event adds eight weeks of fitness challenges, health webinars and wellness courses

Sociology professor receives grant to help build a more representative professoriate

Beginning this fall, incoming School of Social Sciences graduate students will have an opportunity to participate in the Enhancing Diversity and Equitable Inclusion Thriving in the Academy Program. Spearheaded by Belinda Robnett, professor of sociology and associate dean of faculty development and diversity in social sciences, the program is supported by a five-year, $349,996 grant […]

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Researchers pull in campus-best $529 million in grants and contracts

NSF grants $18 million to UCI for materials science and engineering center

Researchers will develop new substances for manufacturing, defense and health

Nancy Rodriguez, UCI professor of criminology, law & society and principal investigator

$2.7 million gift by Arnold Ventures to UCI funds most comprehensive prison violence study to date

Unique multi-strategy approach will identify evidence-based reduction, prevention policies

Foundation donates $1 million to UCI's Henry Samueli School of Engineering

Gift establishes research institute for sustainable development of materials

Huolin Xin receives early career award from DOE Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy has chosen Houlin Xin, UCI assistant professor of physics & astronomy, as an awardee in its DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program. Xin will receive $150,000 per year for five years to support his project to develop transmission electron microscopy imaging technologies for making lithium-ion battery electrodes more […]

Building Sikh Studies at UCI

First holder of endowed chair aims to raise critical awareness of South Asian tradition’s global history, culture, ethics and philosophies, and contributions

UCI to lead $10 million NSF-funded center on protecting personal data privacy

Researchers will address technical, social and policy challenges of networked world