Gifts & Grants

Faculty position established with $1.5 million gift from Drs. Harvinder and Asha Sahota

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 […]

Courtney Carlson, a second-year doctoral student in biomedical engineering, has won a two-year fellowship from the American Heart Association. She will receive $53,000 from the AHA in support of her research project, which involves creating cells that can record their own developmental history in their DNA and then optimizing those cells to study congenital heart disease. […]

Gregory Lai, MBA ’88, has made his largest donation ever to UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business. The $250,000 Greg and Cindy Lai Endowed Undergraduate Student Award will support Merage students. “I believe that the Merage School is at another inflection point and in the next decade or so will break into the top 20 […]

Deanna Shemek, professor of Italian, has been awarded a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for $99,897. Shemek, together with co-project director Anne Macneil, associate professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a team headed by Antonella Guidazzoli, from VisITLab, the cultural heritage department of Italy’s supercomputing center, […]

Laura E. Enriquez, UCI assistant professor of Chicano/Latino studies, will lead a two-year, multicampus study on the impact of federal immigration policy on the University of California student population. Funded by a $270,000 UC Multicampus Research Programs & Initiatives grant, the project will launch in January. Enriquez will work with colleagues at UC Berkeley, UCI, […]

Elizabeth Cauffman, professor of psychological science at UCI, has received a $780,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice to evaluate the Orange County Young Adult Court. This will be the first randomized control trial in the country of a YAC. Such courts are designed to focus specifically on people between the ages of 18 […]

Tara Rodman, UCI assistant professor of drama, has won a 2018 Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $60,000 grant will enable her to research and write a book about the international career of Japanese dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893-1961). The Fellowships for Advanced Social […]

UCI’s Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics has received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for ongoing research into developing miniature devices that can perform biochemical analytical functions quickly and inexpensively. These chips have the potential to rapidly detect dangerous toxins in the blood, quickly screen hundreds of potential drugs, […]

Participants will be provided academic support from middle school through freshman year