Cindy Elizabeth Ventura, a junior in public health policy, has been awarded a Public Health Leadership & Learning Undergraduate Student Success internship from the national Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. The eight-week summer internship provides sophomore and junior scholars with research and community health activities, mentorship and professional development. The PLUSS Program aims to […]
UC Irvine’s global sustainability effort has been chosen to be part of a White House initiative aimed at climate education and literacy that will distribute science-based information to students, teachers and the broader public.
Vicki Ruiz, UC Irvine professor of history and chair of Chicano/Latino studies, has been named an honoree for the 2015 National Women’s History Month.
Dr. Paul Rosenblit, UC Irvine clinical professor of medicine, was elected president of the Pacific Lipid Association at the annual scientific sessions of the National Lipid Association, held May 1–4 in Orlando, Fla.
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.