Honors & Awards

Rahim Esfandyar-Pour wins DARPA Young Faculty Award

Researcher’s innovations are useful in medical, defense, and energy applications

Los Alamos National Laboratory awards prestigious fellowship to UCI physicist

Researcher’s work will probe ‘elusive universe’ of neutrinos, dark matter and gravity

UC Irvine health psychologist Julian F. Thayer elected to National Academy of Medicine

Distinction recognizes his contributions to understanding of stress and disease, aging

Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine cites UCI’s Philip Felgner

Vaccine Research & Development Center director noted for contribution to mRNA vaccines

Dr. Federico Vaca

Dr. Federico Vaca to lead Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

UC Irvine physician-scholar is lauded for research on traffic crash injuries, prevention

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

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

Carnegie Corporation recognizes Kyriacos Athanasiou as a ‘Great Immigrant’

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

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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, […]

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