Honors & Awards

UCI professor of finance receives multiple accolades for his research

David Hirshleifer, professor of finance and Paul Merage Chair in Business Growth, was recently elected vice president of the American Finance Association and appointed to the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also received The Paul Merage School of Business Senior Research Faculty Award. “I’m honored and grateful for this appreciation of my work by […]

Assistant professor is named 2017 Pew scholar

Robert Spitale, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, is among 22 individuals nationwide named 2017 Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences, one of the highest honors for early-career researchers. Spitale will receive $240,000 over the next four years from the Pew Charitable Trusts to develop powerful new tools for visualizing the production, localization and structure of […]

UCI ranked 7th-best college for your money

Money magazine scoured through 2,400 colleges and 27 data points to list the 711 top colleges, and once again, UCI rates highly for offering an affordable and accessible high-quality education coupled with alumni success. In Money’s 2017-18 Best College Rankings, UCI rated as the seventh-best college for your money (and fifth among public universities). Most […]

UCI assistant professor of strategy is co-author of award-winning study

John Joseph, an assistant professor of strategy in UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business, is the co-author of a research report that received a 2016 Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award. The study, published in the June 2016 issue of the Strategic Management Journal, examined how mobile handset manufacturers decide when to introduce new […]

UCI professor of marketing is lead author on 'highly commended' research paper

Imran Currim, Chancellor’s Professor of marketing and director of the Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, is the lead author on a research report named a “highly commended” paper in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. The study, published in the European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 50, Issue 12, establishes the longer-term positive […]

Ngugi wa Thiong'o awarded honorary degree from Yale

Writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English at UCI and perennial Nobel candidate, recently received an honorary degree from Yale University in recognition of his distinctive achievements in the humanities. Yale President Peter Salovey said, “Brave wordsmith, for breaking down barriers, for showing us the potential of literature to incite change […]

UCI's Aglaya Glebova wins Berlin Prize, will research Soviet avant-garde artists

Aglaya Glebova, assistant professor of art history and film & media studies, has received a Berlin Prize fellowship to study Soviet avant-garde artists. The award is bestowed annually by the American Academy in Berlin on U.S. scholars, writers, composers and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields. Glebova will examine five […]

UCI meets U.S. Department of Education eligibility as a Hispanic-serving institution

Latino enrollment reaches 25.7 percent, reflecting campus commitment to diversity

Associate professor of film & media studies wins Fulbright grant to research book in Philippines

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 […]

Douglas Tobias honored by Royal Society of Chemistry

Douglas Tobias, professor of chemistry at UCI, is the 2017 recipient of the Soft Matter & Biophysical Chemistry Award from Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry. The prize honors outstanding and innovative research in soft condensed matter and the application of physicochemical techniques to biological problems. It includes a cash prize of about $2,600, a medal, […]