EVENT: The Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine presents the “Dusk till Dawn” exhibit, featuring work from award-winning painters depicting the California landscape at night or when the sun is setting or rising. WHEN/WHERE: May 27-Sept. 28, The Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine, on the ground floor of the Airport […]
Felicidad “Bliss” Cua Lim, associate professor of film & media studies, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright grant to conduct research in the Philippines for her book on the dismal state of the nation’s film archive. “Philippine cinema’s archival situation is precarious,” Lim said. “Since local production began in the early 1900s, only 37 percent of […]
Cecelia Lynch, UCI professor of political science, has received a grant from the University of Notre Dame to expand her research on faith-based women’s groups and activists in the Central African country of Cameroon. Via interviews and observations, Lynch will seek to better understand the gender relations these Christian, Muslim and traditional women experience in their families, […]
New UCI facility will fuel major multidisciplinary research and innovation
The UCI Libraries have been awarded a prestigious Institute of Museum & Library Services grant of $500,000 to explore the outcomes of undergraduate students applying what they learn in ethnic studies combined with lived experience in contributing to community archives. The team, led by university archivist Audra Eagle Yun, head of Special Collections & Archives, will partner […]
Major federal funding establishes campus as international center of excellence
The Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing was recently awarded grants for $240,000 and $80,000 through the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act of the California Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development. Both are designed to bolster programs aimed at educating nurses to serve in areas of unmet need and to increase the […]
Donation expands partnership with Base 11 to address STEM talent crisis
The American Academy of Neurology is giving UCI’s Dr. Claudia Kawas a 2017 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s & Related Diseases for her dementia work. Sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of Alzheimer’s research, the $100,000 award is an internationally recognized tribute to those advancing our understanding of dementia. Kawas will be […]
Margot Norris, Chancellor’s Professor emerita of English and comparative literature, has been honored with the 2016-17 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, which recognizes scholarly work or educational service since retirement by University of California professors emeriti in the humanities or social sciences. A world-renowned expert on James Joyce and 20th-century modernist literature, she has won […]