Gifts & Grants

UCI expert on climate and environment is first to hold new endowed position

Veronica Newhart, Ph.D. ’18, was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the National Institutes of Health-funded UCI Institute of Clinical & Translational Science TL-1 Training Program. She will examine how interactions via telepresence and human service robots allow home- and hospital-bound populations to maintain social connectedness and engage in technology-mediated experiences that contribute to improved […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

Claudia Benavente, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and developmental & cell biology, was awarded a $100,000 grant through the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The AACR-Aflac Incorporated Career Development Award for Pediatric Cancer Research is given every year to a project believed to have significant impact in the field of pediatric cancer research. Benavente’s […]

Donation will support graduate student research, scholarship in social sciences

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

Cécile Whiting, Chancellor’s Professor of art history, has been awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the completion of her book Global War and the New American Landscape, 1939-48. “I am thrilled to receive an NEH grant,” Whiting said. “It will enable me to finish archival and photographic research […]

Physiology & biophysics professor Todd Holmes has received a five-year, $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study how insects process short-wavelength light in the ultraviolet-through-blue spectral range. This work builds on research from the Holmes lab published over the past few years in Science, Nature and […]