Chao family fights cancer with $5 million gift to UC Irvine Health Noted leukemia researchers to receive endowed chairs established by donation The UC Irvine Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center will honor renowned leukemia researchers Richard Van Etten, M.D., Ph.D., and Susan O’Brien, M.D., with endowed chairs made possible by a $5 million gift […]
Chao family support has built UC Irvine Health’s Comprehensive Cancer Center into a community resource … and so much more
Inaugural Giving Day raises $1.4 million for campus
Investment manager and certified financial planner Pamela Adams, MBA ’98 believes in paying it forward. Her $50,000 gift to The Paul Merage School of Business‘ LIFEvest financial literacy program will enable ninth- or 10th-grade students from economically disadvantaged communities to learn the basics of money management, as well as how to prepare for success in college […]
A renowned economist and former dean of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, Lawrence Benveniste ’72 and his wife, Marie, have committed to a $5 million estate gift to establish endowed chairs in mathematics at UCI and UC Berkeley. Benveniste earned a bachelor’s in mathematics at UCI in 1972 and a doctorate in mathematics at UC Berkeley in […]
Anteater alumnus Bobby Barzi ‘94 loves fatherhood – and shows it – through his clothing company, fodada
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 16, 2016 — Allergan founder Gavin Herbert and his wife, Ninetta, have pledged $5 million to advance retinal research at UC Irvine Health’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, the academic eye care center named in his honor. “As longtime champions of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, the Herberts have shown that community leaders can […]
Half a billion dollars in grants and giving reflects growing support for campus vision
Leader of campus development to look for ambitious, creative ways to fund programs
School of Social Sciences will join effort to foster understanding between US, Asian nation