Honors & Awards

Grad student working on ‘superbug kryptonite’ wins UCI Grad Slam, will compete systemwide

Many insects are equipped with a natural defense mechanism against harmful pathogens: Their wings are covered with nanoscale spikes – 1,000 times thinner than a human hair – that kill bacteria and fungi cells. UCI’s 2019 winner of the University of California Grad Slam competition is mimicking these antimicrobial surfaces in the lab for potential […]

UCI’s graduate programs shine in U.S. News & World Report rankings

UCI’s doctoral programs once again shined in U.S. News & World Report’s annual graduate school rankings – published online on March 12. In just its fifth year of eligibility, the UCI School of Law ranks seventh among public universities and 23rd overall. In addition, it’s third among publics for clinical training (seventh overall) and third […]

Michael Arias ’11 to receive UCI’s Extraordinarius award

49th annual Lauds & Laurels event will honor 22 outstanding Anteaters

Michael Arias ’11 to receive UCI’s Extraordinarius award

49th annual Lauds & Laurels event will honor 22 outstanding Anteaters

Textbook on Chinese poetry by UCI professor of East Asian studies awarded Buchanan Prize

An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: From the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty, by UCI professor of East Asian studies Michael A. Fuller, has won the Association for Asian Studies’ Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for high-quality curriculum materials on Asia. “I am deeply honored that the AAS has given my textbook […]

Professor emerita of history is awarded top honor in field of American foreign relations

Emily Rosenberg, professor emerita of history and former chair of that department, has been given the highest honor in the field of U.S. foreign relations – the Norman and Laura Graebner Award – by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. The Graebner Award recognizes the lifetime achievement of a senior historian of U.S. foreign […]

Soroosh Sorooshian is elected a fellow of the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics

Soroosh Sorooshian, director of UCI’s Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing and Distinguished Professor of civil & environmental engineering and Earth system science, has been elected a fellow of the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics. A renowned expert in water resources engineering, Sorooshian has vast experience working with global organizations and looking at the […]

UCI online master’s program in criminology, law & society rises to No. 2 in national ranking

UCI’s Master of Advanced Study in criminology, law & society has advanced to No. 2 in the country in U.S. News & World Report‘s 2019 ranking of the Best Online Graduate Criminal Justice Programs. A total of 77 schools with online criminal justice or criminology programs were evaluated in five categories: engagement, expert opinion, faculty […]

Forbes magazine ranks UCI seventh among the most diverse workplaces in the country

Forbes has named UCI one of the best employers for diversity in the nation. The magazine rated the campus No. 7 overall – the second-highest ranking for both a California employer and an educational institute. UCI is Orange County’s second-largest employer, with 16,400 faculty and staff working on campus and at the UCI Medical Center […]

Professor emeritus of physics & astronomy receives Heinlein Award for science fiction

Gregory Benford, science fiction author and professor emeritus of physics & astronomy at UCI, is the 2019 winner of the Heinlein Award, bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. The award is in recognition of Benford’s body of work, including 32 novels – among […]