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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature, has been named a 2014 fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Deborah Lowe Vandell, dean of UC Irvine’s School of Education, was recently elected to the National Academy of Education, an organization dedicated to advancing high-quality education research and its use in policy formulation and practice.

UC Irvine Earth system scientist Eric Rignot has been named a 2013 fellow of the prestigious American Geophysical Union. “To be elected an AGU fellow is a special tribute for those who have made exceptional scientific contributions,” says the organization. The designation is conferred upon not more than 0.1 percent of all AGU members each […]

UC Irvine neurobiologist Leslie Thompson and mathematician Qing Nie have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Jose Ramos, a senior in civil engineering, has received a Semester at Sea Presidential Scholarship.

The honor, considered one of the highest in scientific research, goes to a professor renowned for his development of a two- story-high, scanning, tunneling microscope to investigate single molecules.

Shaul Mukamel, Chancellor’s Professor of chemistry at UC Irvine, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Professor is internationally known and widely cited for his research on children and young adults raised in immigrant families of diverse nationalities and socioeconomic classes.

The UCI faculty members are among 220 new fellows and 17 new foreign honorary members elected this year.

UCI Chancellor’s Professor of history, whose research focuses on China, will head the principal professional organization for historians in the United States.