Honors & Awards

Joyce Yu-Chia Lee is the first faculty member to earn the prestigious honor

Philip Felgner is one of seven honored for contributions to designing COVID-19 vaccines

Seven assistant professors at UCI will receive $50,000 Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 63 UCI Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund established the program here. The program began in 1995 at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego and has since […]

UCI Land, an animated, Anteater-themed island created for Nintendo’s popular Animal Crossing video game series, has won a 2021 Bronze Anvil award from the Public Relations Society of America and a 2021 Circle of Excellence award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Also known as #AnteaterCrossing, UCI Land debuted last fall as […]

Meet the campus locations named in honor of past UCI chancellors

Drake, the current UC president, led campus during era of unprecedented growth

Awards honor work that they do to make a difference in the community

UCI political scientist to advance work on geopolitics

The Association for Computing Machinery has selected UCI computer scientist Michael Franz to receive the ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Franz was recognized for his development of just-in-time compilation techniques that enable fast and feature-rich services on the internet, including such widely used applications as Gmail and Facebook. “This is a […]

History professor is among 26 recipients of prestigious award across U.S.