Honors & Awards

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

American Association for the Advancement of Science honors six UC Irvine researchers

Scholars are recognized for their achievements in science and society

January 31, 2023
Tibor Juhasz

Grabbing the Golden Goose

Tibor Juhasz honored for discovery that led to laser eye surgery

January 23, 2023
F. Sherwood Rowland (left) and Mario Molina, here in their UCI lab in the early 1970s, discovered how the ozone layer was being destroyed.

How UCI saved the ozone layer

Research by F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina is at the heart of a recent U.N. report that the ozone hole is closing

January 11, 2023
Photo of Jonathan Alexander, UCI Chancellor's Professor of English and informatics

UC Irvine’s Jonathan Alexander receives 2023 CCCC Co-Exemplar Award

Accolade recognizes top contributors in field of composition

January 03, 2023