UC Irvine News Brief: UCI's Feng wins Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics

It will enable the professor to take a sabbatical from teaching and service to focus on research in the 2012-13 academic year.

UC Irvine News Brief: Physicist Jason Alicea wins Sloan Research Fellowship

The prestigious $50,000 award will help fund the assistant professor’s study of theoretical condensed-matter physics over a two-year period.

Behrouz Shafei

Fellowship winner is engineering a better future

Doctoral candidate gauges infrastructure vulnerability to natural disasters.

Andrew Chang

Fellowship winner follows his heart

Andrew Chang left a promising engineering career to pursue a doctorate in economics. His research aims to empower U.S. policymakers to create appropriate laws for possible future regulation of the financial sector.

Christopher Lay

Stroke research yields fellowship

Neurobiologist Christopher Lay receives $10,000 Public Impact Fellowship for ‘whisker work.’

UC Irvine News Brief: Three at UCI win humanities, social sciences fellowships

The American Council of Learned Societies selects Elizabeth Chiarello, doctoral candidate in sociology; Angela Hawk, doctoral candidate in history; and Carrie Noland, professor of French, Italian and comparative literature.

Vanderwal, Whiteson awarded Sloan Research Fellowships

Two UC Irvine assistant professors – Christopher Vanderwal in chemistry and Daniel Whiteson in physics & astronomy – have received…

Cicerones fund new graduate fellowship

The UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences today announced the creation of the Ralph J. & Carol M. Cicerone Graduate…

Physics & astronomy postdocs receive Hubble fellowships

UC Irvine physics & astronomy postdoctoral researchers Misty Bentz and Shelley Wright have received prestigious 3-year Hubble research fellowships from…

Biologist awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowship

Kevin Thornton, UC Irvine ecology & evolutionary biology assistant professor, has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He…