Five assistant professors at the University of California, Irvine will receive $50,000 Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 53 UCI Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund established the program here. The 2019-20 awardees, representing a cross-section of disciplines, are: “Each […]
Christopher Contreras, a Ph.D. student in criminology, law & society, has been selected as a 2019 recipient of the American Society of Criminology’s Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity. The award program, designed to assist minority graduate students, annually recognizes three fellows, based on their outstanding accomplishments and promise for future contributions […]
Margherita Long, associate professor of East Asian studies, has earned a UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship for 2019-20. One of only eight recipients across the University of California system, she will use the $30,000 in support of her book project, Care, Affect, Crackup: Literature & Activism After Fukushima, which takes an environmental humanities approach to […]
UCI artist Daniel Joseph Martinez is among the 2019 Guggenheim Fellows newly named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships were awarded this year to a diverse group of 168 scholars and artists from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants from the United States and Canada, appointed on the basis of prior achievement […]
Courtney Carlson, a second-year doctoral student in biomedical engineering, has won a two-year fellowship from the American Heart Association. She will receive $53,000 from the AHA in support of her research project, which involves creating cells that can record their own developmental history in their DNA and then optimizing those cells to study congenital heart disease. […]
After a nationwide competition, Samantha Ku, a 2018 UCI graduate in political science, has been selected to receive a 2019 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. Funded by the U.S. Department of State, the prestigious award is administered by the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Ku is currently […]
Emily Penner and Di Xu, both assistant professors of education, have been selected as 2018 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows. They were among 30 early-career scholars – out of a pool of 200 – to receive the $70,000 fellowships to help cover salary and research expenses. Penner will study ways in which school districts […]
Veronica Newhart, Ph.D. ’18, was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the National Institutes of Health-funded UCI Institute of Clinical & Translational Science TL-1 Training Program. She will examine how interactions via telepresence and human service robots allow home- and hospital-bound populations to maintain social connectedness and engage in technology-mediated experiences that contribute to improved […]
Amy Gerstler, professor of English, has been named a 2018 Guggenheim fellow in poetry. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s board of trustees granted 173 of the prestigious awards out of nearly 3,000 applicants. As a Guggenheim fellow, Gerstler will write a hybrid poetry/literature book that explores the idea of the feminine epic. “One of […]
Edward Dimendberg, professor of humanities and European languages & studies, has been named a 2018 Guggenheim fellow in architecture planning and design. The prestigious award is one of 173 granted by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s board of trustees out of nearly 3,000 applications. Dimendberg’s scholarly work centers on architecture and urbanism. As a […]