Honors & Awards

Jo and Paul Butterworth.

Alumni couple Paul and Jo Butterworth to receive UC Irvine’s Extraordinarius award

Philanthropists will be among 24 honorees at Lauds & Laurels event

August 24, 2023
Photo of Pheather Harris, CAMP-UCI Director—Center for Educational Partnerships

Director of UCI’s California Alliance for Minority Participation appointed to national board

Pheather R. Harris named president-elect of National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates

July 05, 2023

Carnegie Corporation recognizes Kyriacos Athanasiou as a ‘Great Immigrant’

Originally from Cyprus, the biomedical engineer came to UC Irvine in 2017

June 28, 2023
Photo of Anai Campos Contreras

Anai Campos Contreras named 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences

The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Anai Campos Contreras, incoming UC Irvine postdoctoral fellow in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, a 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences. Campos received a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in 2022 from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Later this summer, she will join the laboratory of Thomas Martinez, […]

June 13, 2023
UCI’s 2023-24 Hellman Fellows are (top row, from left) Diu-Huong Nguyen, Nicole Iturriaga, Cyrian Reed and Christopher Miles, as well as (bottom row, from left) Stacy Copp, Salvador Zárate, Herdeline Ardoña and Alexandra Voloshina.

8 UC Irvine faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2023-24

Grant program supports research by promising assistant professors

May 22, 2023
Leo Chavez

UC Irvine’s Leo Chavez elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Renowned anthropologist studies international migration, particularly among Latinos

April 19, 2023
Héctor Tobar (left) and Roland Betancourt.

Héctor Tobar and Roland Betancourt are named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows

UC Irvine scholars are among 171 recipients of the prestigious award

April 10, 2023

Pramod Khargonekar named to AAU task force to expand U.S.-India partnerships

Goal is to increase higher education technological, industrial collaborations between the two nations

April 07, 2023

Fan-Gang Zeng elected to National Academy of Engineering

Acclaimed researcher recognized for developing better treatments for hearing loss and tinnitus

February 08, 2023
Kei Igarashi (center), UCI associate professor of anatomy & neurobiology, is awarded the 19th Japan Academy Medal during a ceremony Feb. 7 in Tokyo as Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko (right) look on. NHK

UC Irvine School of Medicine associate professor awarded 19th Japan Academy Medal

Kei Igarashi is one of six scholars under 45 recognized as outstanding researchers

February 07, 2023